Happy Birthday, Big Mama Thornton!
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
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3 comments:
Whoa, cool clip!
Oh man, gone.
What a great piece of film. Thanks for posting that. This version kind of swings more than the recording I have of her. I like it.
How weird. I just watched a clip of Elvis singing "you ain't nothing but a hound dog" to a hound dog the other day.
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