Now, in later years, Hawkins would try to claim that he had been tricked into that performance, and that he’d had to relearn the song from the record after the fact, because he couldn’t remember what it was he’d been doing.

But it was while he was recording for Grand Records that he wrote the song that would bring him worldwide fame. Guillotine Riot—There aren’t a ton of rock versions of “I Put a Spell on You”, but this cover from female-fronted Guillotine Riot veers into that lane in a beautiful way. And on February 12th, 2000, exactly forty-four years after recording the song, Jalacy "Screamin' Jay" Hawkins passed away from surgical complication, he was 70 years old.Also, "I Put a Spell on You" was used at the end of a The Simpsons episode in which Krusty the Clown make a new sandwhich for his fastfood chain which is both addictive and psychedelic. The band quickly garnered a recording contract with Decca Records and subsequently debuted on record with a cover of Burt Bacharach's " Any Day Now (My Wild Beautiful Bird)" in August 1965. Screamin’ Lord Sutch would later go on to form the Monster Raving Loony Party, a political party intended as a joke that still continues to field candidates at every election twenty years after Sutch’s death. Fast" Eddie Hoh (4) 2is (4) 1940s music strikes (3) Aaron Schroeder (7) ABC-Paramount Records (2) Ace Kefford (1) Acuff-Rose publishing (4) Adam Faith (2) Adam Schlesinger (1) admin notes (5) Ahmet Ertegun (15) Aladdin Records (2) Alan Caddy (2) Alan Freed (13) Alan Lomax (11) Al Bell (1) Albert Grossman (4) Aldon Music (4) Aldous Huxley (2) Alexis Korner (4) Al Jackson (2) Al Kooper (4) Allan Williams (2) Allen Klein (3) Al Lewis (2) Alma Cogan (1) Al Stewart (2) Amen Corner (1) Andre Williams (2) Andrew Loog Oldham (6) Andrew Oldham (6) Andy Partridge (1) Andy Warhol (1) Andy White (4) Anita Kerr Singers (1) Anna Gordy (4) Anna Records (4) Ardmore and Beechwood (2) Aretha Franklin (6) Arif Mardin (2) Art Garfunkel (2) Arthur Crudup (2) Arthur Lee (6) Art Laboe (4) Art Rupe (6) art school (3) Art Tatum (1) Associated London Scripts (1) Atlantic Records (22) B.

Thomas from Buffalo, NyOn the NBC-TV drama Profiler, serial killer Jack dedicated this song to the object of his obsession, Dr. Jean-françois from Montreal, QcIn 2008 Beatrice Bonifassi (Betsy) and Champion recorded a version of this song. Hocus Pocus and Fifty Shades of Grey are among the wide-ranging films “I Put a Spell on You” has appeared in.But unfortunately, after two of these singles, Timely Records folded, and Hawkins had to find another label. The album was re-issued in November 2020 by Verve and Universal Music Enterprises as part of their "audiophile-grade" Acoustic Sounds series.

So this is another of the all too many episodes where I have to warn listeners that we are dealing with someone who behaved appallingly towards women. Another popular cover was by Nina Simone, an influential singer who performed a variety of standards and jazz songs before her death in 2003. The most likely seems to be the one he gave in a documentary, in which he said that he couldn’t sing, but had to take lead vocals, so he decided to just scream everything, because at least that would be different. Grimes gave him a job as a combination road manager and musician — Hawkins would play piano and saxophone, sing occasionally, and was also (according to Hawkins) Grimes’ valet and dog walker.I agree that this is probably the best pressing of this album, but I also agree that the vocal distortion on you’ve got to learn is a little hard to ignore! Every now and then, we come across that one song (or many, for that matter) that just makes us wish we could sing it on our own. However, that version was not released at the time (it has since been reissued on Hawkins' UK Rev-Ola CD The Whamee 1953–55).