Behind the song "Kansas City" by Leiber and Stoller

[MarkRhodes]

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.)

[neatomic]

big mama thornton with buddy guy on strat

hound dog

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

cheers

[morroben]

Not the greatest recording, but I love this version.

[MarkRhodes]

big mama thornton with buddy guy on strat

hound dog

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

cheers

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!

[neatomic]

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



cheers

[TOMMO]

[MarkRhodes]

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



cheers

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