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Screamin' Jay Hawkins was best known for his song "I Put a Spell On You, " which he recorded on the Okeh label in 1956 and which helped win him cult status in the United States, Europe and Japan. He had originally planned the tune as a ballad, but after a night of heavy drinking he tried again--screaming, yelling and groaning--and never looked back. The snorting, some say "cannibalistic" delivery got "I Put A Spell On You" banned from radio stations across the country. Hawkins went on to use the same demented style again and again. An outrageous performer, he used bizarre stage props, often emerging out of coffins during shows. He would wield rubber snakes and fake tarantulas and wear a boar's tooth around his neck or a bone clipped to his nose. Jay Hawkins got his first break in 1951 as a pianist-valet to veteran jazz guitarist Tiny Grimes. His recording debut was 1952's "Why Did You Waste My Time, " backed by Grimes and his Rockin' Highlanders. In the 1960s, Ha!
Was planning an album of operatic recordings to sing on at the time of his death.May have fathered as many as 75 children.Enlisted in the U.S. Army at the age of 13 with a forged birth certificate, and was sent to front line combat duty.Golden Gloves amateur boxing champion and later, while in the Army, won the Alaska Middleweight Championship in 1949 from Billy McCann, though he was stripped of the title because of a technicality under suspicious circumstances.His song "I Put A Spell On You" has been used in American TV commercials for McDonalds, Burger King, Pringle's Potato Chips and Levi's jeans.Claims to have recorded his famous single "I Put A Spell On You" while both he and the musicans were blind drunk, and that he couldn't even recall the recording session.Mentioned in the song "Life Is a Rock But the Radio Rolled Me" by Reunion.Screamin' Jay Hawkins wrote and recorded the 1993 song "Sherilyn Fenn", featured on his album "Stone Crazy". The song is an ode to actress Sherilyn Fenn , who worked with Hawkins in Two Moon Junction (1988).
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Screamin' Jay Hawkins
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18 July 1929
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Date of Death: |
12 February 2000
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Screamin' Jay Hawkins was best known for his song "I Put a Spell On You, " which he record...more
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Was planning an album of operatic recordings to sing on at the time of his death.May have ...more
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1 nomination.
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A Japanese couple obsessed with 1950s America goes to Memphis because the male half of the couple emulates Carl Perkins. Chance encounters link three different stories in the city, with the common thread being the seedy hotel where they are all staying.
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