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Re: You Ain't Nothin' but a Hound Dog... 66 years ago today
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Reply to: #963832 by DoubleSaj and Old Blue
Aug 13, 2018 5:12pm
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Great write up and thanks for the notice. I was 1 when Elvis recorded his version. Man, I miss him. The only exception I take to your post is that E was “amused”. It’s well known in some circles he felt humiliated of the performance. He said himself:
It was the most ridiculous appearance I ever did and I regret ever doing it.
~ELVIS PRESLEY

Still he was a good sport about it.

Link to Thornton’s version: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XRVnJ89oisM
Re: You Ain't Nothin' but a Hound Dog... 66 years ago today
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Reply to: #963835 by DarkZen and Evil Cow Pie
Aug 14, 2018 8:23am
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Big Mama Thornton's version is much more my style that Elvis'. Thanks for the link.

The only exception I take to your post is that E was “amused”.

I should have gotten the hint that he wasn't "amused" because elsewhere I read that Elvis never returned to New York City after that.

Old Blue
I was 2 when Elvis was on the Steve Allen Show