Big Mama Thornton

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You ain't nothing but a "Hound Dog” ... with these words shouted into the microphone she will always be remembered: Big Mama Thornton. Who is this woman who sang the megahit "Hound Dog” before Elvis Presley and who wrote "Ball & Chain”, the song that catapulted Janis Joplin to sudden fame? The story begins with her first musical attempts in the Hot Harlem Revue as a girl of 14, then follows her journey into the Mecca of Texas Blues, Houston, where she met Johnny Otis, with whom she recorded her greatest success.