191 - Hound Dog: The Song that Changed Popular Music and America w/ Ben Wynne

191 - Hound Dog: The Song that Changed Popular Music and America w/ Ben Wynne

Author: A podcast about baseball, music and culture. March 17, 2024 Duration: 47:42
Dr. Ben Wynne, Ph.D. (Univ. of N. Georgia) is our guest this week to talk about his latest book, "A Hound Dog Tale: Big Mama, Elvis and the Song that Changed Everything" (Louisiana State Univ. Press 2024). This is a fascinating interview about a song that was a major rhythm & blues hit for Big Mama Thornton and a ground-breaking success for Elvis Presley a few years later. Through his research, Wynne is able to explain how this song through is many incarnations and having spurred tw...

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