Is Big Mama Thornton in the Rock and Roll hall of fame?

Big Mama Thornton was an R&B singer and songwriter from the United States. Thornton’s career took off after she relocated to Houston in 1948.

She signed a recording contract with Peacock Records in 1951 and appeared at the Apollo Theater in 1952.

In 1952, she recorded “Hound Dog,” the first record produced by its writers Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, while working with another Peacock artist, Johnny Otis.

‘Hound Dog’ was her biggest hit, spending seven weeks at the top of the Billboard R&B chart and selling nearly two million copies.

By 1969, Thornton had signed with Mercury Records, which released her most successful album, Stronger Than Dirt, which reached number 198 on the Billboard Top 200 record chart

Thornton was nominated for six Blues Music Awards during her career. She was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1984.

Thornton wrote twenty blues songs in addition to “Ball ‘n’ Chain” and “They Call Me Big Mama.” Her song “Ball ‘n’ Chain” is listed as one of the “500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll” by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.