I didn’t know this, about Tiger Man, one of my favourite Elvis songs. It references both Hound Dog, and an answer to Hound Dog.

[Sam] Phillips penned an answer song to Hound Dog that he dubbed Bear Cat in which the singer rebuts Big Mama’s bad-dog accusation from a male perspective. …The Bear Cat melody, though, sounded indistinguishable from that of Hound Dog, and so Bear Cat and Phillips infringed on the Hound Dog copyright.

Sam Phillips got sued, and had to give up the royalties. Phillips then produced the original of Tiger Man…

The lyric shares Sam’s sense of humor about his recent legal setback, as Thomas sings, “I get up on the mountain and I call my bear cat back. My bear cat comes a runnin’ and the hound dogs stand way back.” In his 1970s power and glory phase, Presley would perform Tiger Man in his live sets, in medley with Mystery Train.

From BEFORE ELVIS by Preston Lauterbach