Big Mama Thornton
Subtitle: the life and music
By: Michael Spörke
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780786477593
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Singers; Blus musicians; Jazz singers; Biography
Description: "'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 and follows her career until her untimely death at age 57 in 1984"--from publisher.
Notes: "Timeline": pages 151-162.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-181), discography (pages 163-170), filmography (pages 171-172), and index.
Table of contents: title: The early years of Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton; title: Hound dog : the Peacock years and Johnny Otis; title: Unlucky girl : from Texas to California; title: "I'm feeling alright"; title: Big Mama Thornton's first European tour; title: Back home; title: Ball and chain; title: The early seventies; title: Sassy Mama still swings; title: Life goes on; title: Swing it in home; title: Epilogue. Big Mama Thornton's legacy.