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Answer songs rode on the coattails, as it were, of the popularity of the first song, and resembled parodies in that their success depended on a knowledge of the original. indicates the dissociation of the singer from the song. In Rock Eras: Interpretations of Music and Society, Jim Curtis says that 'the series of answer songs which were hits in 1960. That led to a successful copyright lawsuit for $35,000, which is said to have led Sam Phillips of Sun Records to sell Elvis Presley's recording contract to RCA. The original ' Hound Dog' song sung by Big Mama Thornton reached number 1 in 1953, and there were six answer songs in response the most successful of these was 'Bear Cat', by Rufus Thomas which reached number 3. Answer songs were also extremely popular in country music in the 1950s and 1960s, most often as female responses to an original hit by a male artist. The concept became widespread in blues and R&B recorded music in the 1930s to the 1950s. An answer song, response song or answer record, is a song (usually a recorded track) made in answer to a previous song, normally by another artist.

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