On this day in 1956, Elvis Presley’s version of “Hound Dog” enters the R&B chart at number eleven. Backed with “Don’t Be Cruel”, it spent the next eleven weeks at number one. On the same day Peacock re-released Big Mama Thornton’s original version. Big Mama’s version had reached number one on the R&B chart in 1953, but failed to get much attention this time around.
On this day in 1958, the only chart-topping record to originate in Italy, “Volare (Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu),” by Domenico Modugno, reached number one.
Today’s show features music performed by Elvis Presley and Jimmy Witherspoon
On this day in Blues history is published every day in video format on Bluesland (on Facebook) and on BlueSky
