Blues and R&B singer Big Mama Thornton will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame this weekend. Ask most folks who first sang the early rock n roll hit "Hound Dog" and they'll tell you Elvis ...

Rock 'n' roll's godmother, Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton, will finally be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on Oct. 19. The event will be held at Cleveland's Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse and ...

ARITON, Ala. (WTVY) - A new museum that pays tribute to blues music is coming to Ariton. An old Greyhound bus station there has quite the history. “That was her hang-out spot. She sat on the bench up ...

Big Mama Thornton will finally enter the Rock Hall, joining tour de force and Godmother of Rock and Roll Sister Rosetta Tharpe. HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Before Tina Turner's "Proud Mary" took us ...

A documentary premiering this winter featuring legendary blues singer Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton One of the greatest blues singers of all time, Alabama-born Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton was ...

In a 1990 interview with Rolling Stone, songwriter Jerry Leiber said, “I had to write a song for her that basically said “Go f— yourself,” but how do you do it without actually saying it?” “Her” is ...

Big Mama Thornton’s biggest hit was far and away her 1952 recording of “Hound Dog” by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. The press lauded the track as the top blues song in the country, spurring countless ...