31 Days of Halloween
Day Twelve:
SCREAMIN' JAY HAWKINS - I PUT A SPELL ON YOU
No one is quite like Screamin' Jay and no one ever will be. So over the top, so dramatic, so entertaining! The best known version of this song written by Screamin' Jay Hawkins was recorded in 1956. His subsequent performances featured him rising out of coffins, wearing capes and accompanied by a cigarette smoking skull. The video here is from 1990, proving that 34 years later, he still had it raw.
And if you are a 90's child, there's a chance this could have been your first exposure to the song:
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