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    Behind The Song: "Kansas City" by Leiber & Stoller << American Songwriter

    A blues with a melody...
    It's been recorded over 300 times.
    This is the one that made it a hit in 1959, seven years after they wrote it. (They also wrote "Hound Dog" that year, 1952. They were 19.)


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    big mama thornton with buddy guy on strat

    hound dog

    she had the original hit...before elvis' massive hit



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    Not the greatest recording, but I love this version.

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    Quote Originally Posted by neatomic
    big mama thornton with buddy guy on strat

    hound dog

    she had the original hit...before elvis' massive hit



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    I sought out Big Mama Thornton records when I was young. And she was a force.
    But Elvis took that song somewhere else----him and Scotty rocked it!


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    scotty moore was dynamite!!! hugely influential in his time! a hero



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    Quote Originally Posted by neatomic
    scotty moore was dynamite!!! hugely influential in his time! a hero



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    Couldn't agree more. His influence stretched far and wide. And deservedly so.