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...Beatles 2. American Pie - Don McLean 3. Like a Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan 4. I Can See Clearly Now - Johnny Nash 5. The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face - Roberta Flack 6. If - Bread 7. Your Song - Elton John 8. I Get Around - Beach Boys 9. Hound Dog - Elvis Presley 10. I Want to Hold Your Hand - Beatles...
...town of Coldwater in Tate County, Miss., where the kudzu hills rise gently from the Delta flatlands in the west, there's a gravel track that runs through stands of scrub oak and pine to reach a dusty clearing: two single-wide trailers, a small vegetable patch, a bluetick hound sleeping in the lee of a faded green Lincoln. Music is in the air--the fierce, hypnotic boogie known as hill-country blues--because this is the headquarters of the North Mississippi Allstars...
Past HRST shows included another Stoppard play, "The Real Inspector Hound," and Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing...
That was July 1956. And while lots of folks will tell you that when they heard Elvis shout "You ain't nothin' but a hound dog!" it changed music forever, the revolution was already well under way. In fact, you could say it began in 1950, when a pair of 17-year-old white kids named Leiber and Stoller teamed up to write for black rhythm-and-blues performers like Jimmy Witherspoon and Big Mama Thornton--for whom they yelled and banged out Hound Dog in 10 inspired minutes...
When Elvis' version of Hound Dog exploded on the scene, their fortunes soared. Asked by Elvis' producers for more songs, they wrote more than 20, including Love Me, Treat Me Nice, Loving You and Jailhouse Rock. "We became his lucky charm," Stoller says of Elvis, then laughs and adds, "until we got bored...