We Ranked Up The Best Songs Through The Years – Which One Is Your Favorite

‘Hound Dog’ — Elvis Presley

“Hound Dog” was a hit for R&B singer Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton before Elvis Presley recorded it, but it is the version of Presley that ranks No. 19 on top 500 of the Rolling Stone. The song was written for a woman to sing, chastising “her greedy, exploitative man,” and in it, she “expresses a woman’s rejection of a man-the metaphorical dog in the title “Having heard Freddie Bell and the Bellboys.”

‘Hound Dog’ — Elvis Presley