Another CD album from the Bear Family Records - Rock'n'Roll CD series - Rocks -

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.

Track Listing

• Little Demon
• Baptize Me In Wine
• Not Anymore
• In My Front Room
• This Is All
• What That Is
• (She Put The) Wamee (On Me)
• Well I Tried
• Talk About Me
• Take Me Back
• I Is
• $ 10,000 Lincoln Continental (take 2)
• You Ain't Foolin' Me
• Yellow Coat
• I Put A Spell On You
• Frenzy
• Alligator Wine
• There's Something Wrong With You
• Person To Person
• You Made Me Love You
• Little Demon (alt. take)
• Armpit No. 6
• Just Don't Care
• Strange
• Whammy
• Party Doll
• All Night
• Mountain Jive
• Do You Really Love Me
• Please Don't Leave Me
• Knock-Kneed Nana (take 7)

Additional Details

Label: Bear Family Records

Genre: R & B

Run Time: 78 mins

Release Date: 01/02/07

UPC: 4000127166876