The songs ‘Hound Dog’ and ‘Jailhouse Rock’ were written by Jerry Leiber and ______ who?
Hound Dog (song) Hound Dog (song) "Hound Dog" is a twelve-bar blues song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. Recorded originally by Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton on August 13, 1952, in Los Angeles and released by Peacock Records in late February 1953, "Hound Dog" was Thornton's only hit record, selling over 500,000 copies, spending 14 weeks in the R&B charts, including seven weeks at number one. Thornton's recording of "Hound Dog" is listed as one of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's "500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll", and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in February
Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller to finish the journey to New York aboard another ship, the "Cape Ann". After their rescue, Leiber greeted Stoller at the dock with the news that "Hound Dog" had become a hit for Elvis Presley. Stoller's reply was, "Elvis who?" They would go on to write more hits for Presley, including the title songs for three of his movies—"Loving You", "Jailhouse Rock", and "King Creole"—as well as the rock and roll Christmas song, "Santa Claus Is Back in Town", for Presley's first Christmas album. In the beginning of the 1960s, they started Daisy Records and recorded Bob Moore and The