Screamin’ Jay Hawkins

About

Jalacy J. “Screamin’ Jay” Hawkins was an American singer-songwriter, musician, actor, film producer, and boxer. Famed chiefly for his powerful, shouting vocal delivery and wildly theatrical performances of songs such as “I Put a Spell on You”, he sometimes used macabre props onstage, making him an early pioneer of shock rock. He received a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male for his performance in the 1989 indie film Mystery Train.

Albums/Songs:

• Spellbound
• Don’t Fool With Me
• Real Life
• At Home With Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
• Frenzy
• What a Price I Must Pay
• Screamin’ Jay Hawkins (mono version)
• From Grand and Gotham
• Black Music for White People
• I Shake My Stick at You!
• The Night and Day of Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
• Rated X
• A Portrait of a Man and His Woman
• I Put a Spell on You
• I Put a Spell on You
• At Home with Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
• Because Is in Your Mind
• Somethin’ Funny Goin’ On
• At Last
• Giants of Rock and Roll: Carl Perkins / Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
• Stone Crazy
• Because You’re Mine Hits & Rarities
• I Put a Spell on You
• Feast of the Mau Mau
• My Little Shop of Horrors

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