Hawkins,Screamin' Jay Rocks CD

The godfather of gothic rock - Screamin' Jay Hawkins The star of Jim Jarmusch's 1989 cult movie 'Mystery Train'! 31 classics, featuring the original hit version of I Put A Spell On You! Comprehensive liner notes from Screamin' Jay Hawkins ueber-fan Bill Millar! Screamin' Jay Hawkins' records didn't go over-the-top; they started over-the-top and got more berserk from there. Screamin' Jay Hawkins lived as he sang. A simple question, like how he came up with the nickname 'Screamin' elicited this response: 'I went to Nitro, West Virginia. This is 1950. There was a big, big, huge fat lady at the bar. Just allow your mind to roam free when I say 'fat'?Glutton! Beast! O-bese! She made the average elephant look like a pencil, that's how fat she was. She was downing Black & White scotch and Jack Daniels at the same time, and whenever she looked up at me she shouted 'Scream, baby, scream!' I said to myself: 'You wanted a name?' Screamin' Jay Hawkins' influence can be found wherever music has sunk to new depths of depravity. Mixing voodoo rhythms and horror film props, he invented gothic rock, a genre that includes Alice Cooper, Arthur Brown, the antics of Black Sabbath's Ozzy Osbourne, the horror film make-up of Kiss, not to mention 'The Rocky Horror Show'. Screamin' Jay Hawkins also paved the way for George Clinton and Cameo whose lead singer, Larry Blackmon, emerged? like Screamin' Jay Hawkins? from a huge silver coffin. And, oh yes, he wrote and recorded the original version of I Put A Spell On You.

1. Little Demon 2. Baptize Me in Wine 3. Not Anymore 4. In My Front Room 5. This Is All 6. What That Is 7. (She Put the) Wamee (On Me) 8. Well I Tried 9. Talk About Me 10. Take Me Back 11. I Is 12. $ 10,000 Lincoln Continental (Take 2) 13. You Ain't Foolin' Me 14. Yellow Coat 15. I Put a Spell on You 16. Frenzy 17. Alligator Wine 18. There's Something Wrong with You 19. Person to Person 20. You Made Me Love You 21. Little Demon (Alt. Take) 22. Armpit No. 6 23. Just Don't Care 24. Strange 25. Whammy 26. Party Doll 27. All Night 28. Mountain Jive 29. Do You Really Love Me 30. Please Don't Leave Me 31. Knock-Kneed Nana (Take 7)