"Hound Dog” is one of the biggest and most instantly recognizable rock and roll songs in history. ✨️🎶 It’s a song so closely associated with the Legend ELVIS PRESLEY, in fact, that many may mistakenly assume that it was a Presley original. In fact, the story of the song that gave Elvis his longest-running #1 hit (11 weeks) in the summer of 1956 began four years earlier, when “Hound Dog” was recorded for the very first time by the rhythm-and-blues singer Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton in Los Ang