I put a spell on you (because you're mine!)

[Gothic Sponge]

I'm listening to Screaming Jay Hawkins.

RIP

[name not needed]

Are you one of his 75 children?

[Gothic Sponge]

3. Yes! I'm number 32.

[flamingyouth]

1. Excellent choice

I love Nina Simone's version.:thumbsup:

[Gothic Sponge]

4. Nina Simone is great!

[SarahB]

7. Me too!

:D

[iconoclastic cat]

2. Screamin' Jay Hawkins wrote good music for drinking alone.

[Gothic Sponge]

6. I am alone and drinking, but it's tea.

[iconoclastic cat]

8. I'm hittn' the zinfandel.

We're out of merlot.

[salib]

5. which album?

I have it on "Frenzy"

[thatgemguy]

9. Recorded under the influence

of Italian Swiss Colony Muscatel, and boxes of chicken!

The Credence Clearwater Revival version is great too.

Of course, Jay's most outrageous songs were "Feast of the Mau Mau", a most inedible and disgusting concoction, and "Constipation Blues", written while Jay was laid in in a hospital suffering from... yeah you know.

:yourock:

[Kat45]

10. I remember that song from when I was a kid.

Pretty cool song to know from when you're little. :-)

[Radical Activist]

11. He's a good reminder that Marilyn Manson's act is anything but original

Same for Alice Cooper, but at least Cooper doesn't take it too seriously.

[IcyPeas]

12. Bryan Ferry does a tremblingly sexy cover of this too..... oooooh

[enigmatic]

13. "Screamin' Jay's The Man, so bug off"- Eva, from "Strranger Than Paradise"

np: "Constipation Blues"- Screamin' Jay Hawkins