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Willie Mae Big Mama Thornton (born in Alabama, December 11, 1926 – July 25, 1984) is considered one of the greatest female blues players on harmonica. She frequently used the harmonica in her stage shows and was well respected by the male-dominated blues legends. Her career was one of almost made i. ut her songs are listed among those that define rock and roll. Nice to see myself on this list, how was the list derived? Let me note that some of the players I would have ranked at the top of the list were (sometimes much) farther back, and I am both honored and amazed to rank in front of players like Sonny Terry and Charlie Musselwhite. The latter remains an inspiration more than four decades after his recordings changed my life.

Tarzan And The Dignified Monkey. Big Mama Thornton (Willie Mae Thornton, December 11, 1926, Montgomery, AL - July 25, 1984, Los Angeles, CA) was an American blues musician. Her introduction to music, as with most fellow blues legends, started in the Baptist church. The daughter of a minister, she and her six siblings began to sing at a very early age. While still a child, Willie Mae taught herself to play the drums and harmonica, and by the age of 14, she had run away from home to make her career in secular music.

This song is sung by Big Mama Thornton.

Willie Mae Thornton, the blues singer known as Big Mama, whose renditions of ''Hound Dog'' and ''Ball and Chain'' inspired Elvis Presley and Janis Joplin, died Wednesday in the Los Angeles boardinghouse where she lived. She was 57 years old. The cause of death was a heart attack, according to a spokesman for the Conner-Johnson Funeral Home in Los Angeles. In 1952, she worked with the Johnny Otis band in his Rhythm and Blues Caravan tour, and the next year scored her biggest hit, ''Hound Dog,'' which was recorded with the Otis band in Los Angeles and reached No. 1 on the rhythm-and-blues charts. In the late 1950's and early 60's, Miss Thornton lived and worked in the San Francisco area. Her career was spurred by the 60's blues revival and she was widely imitated, notably by Janis Joplin, who asked her permission before recording ''Ball and Chain. Blues and Jazz Festivals.

Willie Mae Thornton (December 11, 1926 – July 25, 1984), better known as Big Mama Thornton, was an American rhythm-and-blues singer and songwriter. She was the first to record Leiber and Stoller's "Hound Dog", in 1952, which became her biggest hit, staying seven weeks at number one on the Billboard R&B chart in 1953 and selling almost two million copies. Thornton's other recordings included the original version of "Ball 'n' Chain", which she wrote.