![]() ![]() Willie Mae is born on Decemin Ariton, a very small town in the deep south of Alabama, about 120 kilometers from Montgomery, the second largest city in this southern state. To be found on her album LP “Stronger Than Dirt”, Mercury 1969īig Mama Thornton, 1950’s, photo copyright © unknown: no copyright infringement intended, all rights belong to their respective copyright owners: source Let’s kick off with her version of the classic “That Lucky Old Sun” Big Mama Thornton, “That Lucky Old Sun”, an American standard from 1949 composed by Beasley Smith with lyrics by Haven Gillespie. So allow me to bring my own little homage to this true R&R original. Willie Mae herself has never been inducted into that same R&R Hall of Fame. Both songs are in the list of 500 essential songs to which we owe R&R according to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton is of course best known as the original interpreter of two songs which catapult two white artists into stardom: “Hound Dog” (Elvis Presley, 1956) and “Ball and Chain” (Janis Joplin, 1967). ~Every week from the vaults… a vinyl rarity which crackles, grinds, moves, grooves, hurts, or just awfully tickles… No copyright infringement intended, all rights belong to their respective copyright owners © source: Big Mama Thornton, 1981 (Los Angeles Public Library) ![]()
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