Hound Dog Year
Use our dog age calculator to see the conversion from dog years to human years.
Hound dog year. There are three types of hound with several breeds within each type. All rights reserved by rca records a division of sony music entertainment.
Hound dog was the first title to chart and the first one to be listed as the lead 1 song. The hound breeds were the first hunting dogs they have either a powerful sense of smell great speed or both.
Music video by elvis presley performing hound dog audio. Hound dog is a twelve bar blues song written by jerry leiber and mike stoller.
Hounds can be contrasted with gun dogs that assist hunters by identifying the location of prey and or recovering shot quarry. In fact the story of the song that gave elvis his longest running 1 hit 11 weeks in the summer of 1956 began four years earlier when hound dog was recorded for the very first time by.
The basset is a scent hound that was originally bred for the purpose of hunting hare their sense of smell and ability to ground scent is second only to the bloodhound. The name basset is derived from the french word bas meaning low with the.
Billboard s best sellers in stores chart listed the the 1 song on 8 18 56 as hound dog don t be cruel it was also shown that way when it first topped the most played in juke boxes chart on 9 1 56. Sighthounds also called gazehounds follow prey predominantly by speed.
Pedigree can help you determine your best friend s age. Elvis presley hound dog.
Recorded originally by big mama thornton on august 13 1952 in los angeles and released by peacock records in late february 1953 hound dog was thornton s only hit record selling over 500 000 copies spending 14 weeks in the r b charts including seven weeks at number one. Basset hounds are one of six recognised basset type breeds in france.
A record of the westminster abbey from 1268 shows that dogs age 9 years in 1 calendar year so 9 times faster than a human.
