Vinyl records

Big Mama Thornton vinyl records

2 albums with 25 vinyl pressings between them. Open an album to see all its pressings and how to spot the first one.

Willie Mae Thornton. Born 11th December 1926, Ariton, Alabama, USA Died 25th July 1984, Los Angeles, California, USA Thornton was the first artist to record "Hound Dog" (Peacock 1612), with which she had a Number 1 hit in the Billboard R&B chart in 1953 selling two million copies,. Later the same year she released "They Call Me Big Mama" (Peacock 1621). This release helped immortalize her nickname in the world of funky gospel and R&B music. She also wrote and recorded "Ball And Chain", which gained Janis Joplin attention in the late 1960s. One of seven children, born to a Baptist church minister, she began singing and touring the South with the Georgia Hot Harlem Revue at the age of fourteen.