My Dad's Johnny Otis Movie

This is a video blurb from the local rag in lovely Sebastopol, CA, where my dad previewed a documentary biopic he is making on Johnny Otis.


Otis is an RnB composer, performer, producer, businessman, visual artist, preacher and was nearly mayor of Berkeley - a distinctly American renaissance man. His biggest pop hit was "Willie And The Hand Jive", the song from the dance-off scene in Grease (who didn't cry for Olivia Newton John?), but he is also the notable, but less than duly noted talent behind "(You Ain't Nothin' But a) Hound Dog", made famous by Elvis, but sung here by the aptly monickered Big Mamma Thorton: