Description
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
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