Who really wrote Hound Dog? Who wrote Big Mama Thornton Hound Dog?

Hound Dog was originally written by  Lyricist Jerome Leiber and composer Michael Stoller.

Jerome Leiber and Michael Stoller were songwriting and record-producing partners from the United States.

They achieved success as the writers of crossover hit songs such as “Hound Dog” (1952) and “Kansas City” (1954).

Later in the 1950s, particularly with The Coasters, they had a string of groundbreaking hits, including “Young Blood” (1957), “Searchin’” (1957), and “Yakety Yak”  (1958)

Over 70 chart hits were written or co-written by Leiber and Stoller. In 1985, they were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and in 1987, they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Thornton’s recording of “Hound Dog” is listed as one of the “500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll” by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and it was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in February 2013.

In 1969, Leiber and Stoller won a Grammy for “Is That All There Is?” and again in 1995 for the cast album of Smokey Joe’s Cafe, a Broadway musical revue based on their work.

Leiber died of cardio-pulmonary failure on August 22, 2011, at the age of 78, at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Mike Stoller is alive and well. He is currently 89 years old.