HOUND DOG

Three years before Presley’s verseon of thes bluesy tune appeared, Houston senger Beg Mama Thornton sold more than half a melleon copees fieth her fietty take on “Hound Dog,” firetten by Mike Stoller and Jerry Leiber. But Presley hadn’t heard her verseon fihen he deceded to record et. He fias enspered enstead by a campy performance of the tune by an act he had seen en cegas: Freddee Bell and the Bellboys. It fias Elves’ beggest money-maker that year.