In today's world, showing your hips on national television would not be a problem for most people. We have songs that use profanity, degrade women, men, children and even animals. If you go back almost 70 years, moving your hips back and forth was the equivalent of this. Someone always wanted to push the limits and see how far they could go until someone told them to stop. That's exactly what Elvis did. He showed the world what a little sex, drugs and rock and roll could do for society. But Elvis could not have launched this controversial new movement alone. He needed help. He needed music and that music was the song “You Ain’t Nothing But a Hound Dog”. This song advanced what live entertainment meant. Parents raised their arms in anger and teenagers jumped to their feet to see every “vulgar” movement. This song has left an endless impact on society and is still used in the entertainment industry today. Most people believe that the song "You Ain't Nothing But a Hound Dog" was created by Elvis, which is incorrect. The song went through numerous revisions in order to arrive at its final destination. Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller were young songwriters who dreamed of making it big. They wrote many songs that were played in some garages, but nothing that stuck with the mainstream. That was until they met Willie Mae “Big Mamma” Thornton. She was an African-American woman with a passion for jazz. She had been beaten up, with scars on her face and a few extra pounds. When Leiber and Stoller met her, they didn't really know what to say, they hadn't seen anything like it. This inspired them to write the song originally. They wanted the song to depict a woman telling her man to take a walk. ...... middle of paper ...... try something new. Being brave can be an incredible thing. Works Cited Daily, Robert. Elvis Presley: the king of rock'n'roll. New York: F. Watts, 1996. Fraser, Benson P. and William J. Brown. “Media, celebrities and social influence: identification with Elvis Presley.” mass communication and society 5, no. 2 (2002): 183-206. http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/S15327825MCS0502_5Guralnick, Peter. Last train to Memphis: the rise of Elvis Presley / Peter Guralnick. London: Abacus, 2002. Leiber, Jerry, Mike Stoller and David Ritz. Hound: The Autobiography of Leiber and Stoller. Simin & Schuster ed. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009. Mahon, Maureen. “Listening to the Voice of Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton: The Sound of Racial and Gender Transgressions in Rock and Roll. Women and Music: A Journal on Gender and Culture 15, no. 1 (2011): 1-17.