You ain’t never caught a rabbit and you ain’t no friend of mine.’ The song is not about a dog. You can wag your tail, but I ain’t gonna feed you no more,’ but Elvis sang, ‘You ain’t nothing but a hound dog, crying all the time. I had written, ‘You ain’t nothing but a hound dog. In the Leiber and Stoller 2009 book Hound Dog, Jerry Leiber wrote, “Somebody changed the lyrics. The A side was written by Otis Blackwell and the flip side was written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, originally for Big Mama Thornton, as a blues song in 1952. It was also his first single to have a picture sleeve. “Don’t Be Cruel”/“Hound Dog” became Elvis Presley’s biggest selling single, spending eleven weeks at No.
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