  [b]Hound Dog[/B9 is a twelve-bar blues written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and originally recorded by Willa Mae Big Mama Thornton in 1952. Other early versions illustrate the differences among blues, country, and rock and roll in the mid 1950s. The 1956 remake by Elvis Presley is the best known version. This is the version that is #19 on Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.[3] Hound Dog was also recorded by 5 country singers in 1953 alone, and over 26 times through 1964. [4]  Elvis made the money. :)  Elvis Presley did NOT steal Hound Dog from a Black singer. Hound Dog WAS obviously first performed by Big Mama(and she WAS big:D) Thornton. But..it was NOT her song!! It was written by the JEW songwriting duo Leiber and Stoller, so it was their song, so technically it's a Jew song, oh well, they were pretty good rock song writers I gotta hand it to em', Hound Dog is a good song. As you can see it says Elvis Presley did a REMAKE, he didn't copy it, he completely re made the song, the Big Mama Thornton version sounds nothing like Elvis's version of the Leiber and Stoller song Hound Dog. Sorry, try again corky.   Elvis made the money because his version of the ROCK STANDARD Hound Dog written by two Jews was the best version, nobody liked the Big Mama's House version.:p And it was never her song, or a Black song, it's a Rock Standard song do you know what that means? It was performed by lots of people, she was just the first to perform it, it was never her song.