Screamin Jay Hawkins - Cow Fingers & Mosquito Pie
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Artist: Screamin Jay HawkinsEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1991-07-30
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Little Demon
- You Ain't Foolin' Me [#]
- I Put a Spell on You
- You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It)
- Yellow Coat
- Hong Kong
- There's Something Wrong with You
- I Love Paris
- Orange Colored Sky
- Alligator Wine
- Darling, Please Forgive Me
- Take Me Back to My Boots and Saddle
- Temptation
- Frenzy
- Person to Person
- Little Demon [Alternate Take]
- I Put a Spell on You [Alternate Take]
- There's Something Wrong with You [Alternate Take]
- Alligator Wine [Alternate Take]
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Free Music Review: Roasted Baboon Smothered in Bubble Gum
Hit: 5 Stars
Like a lot of younger people, I got into Screamin' Jay through the side door, by way of Marilyn Manson's cover of "I Put A Spell on You" and the original song's later use in a 501 jeans ad.
Jay was a phenomenal blues shouter. That voice of his, which could shriek, gargle, and bottom out in a baritone that is simply astonishing! While the onstage antics and theatricality brought home the bacon, I really think the music stands on it's own. And myself being a jazz fan, I also really dig the chorus-emphasis on the saxophones, which always made for good 50s R&B.
Now this album contains both versions of "I Put A Spell on You" - the crazier one is near the beginning. However, Jay was so much more than his one signature song. You have the equally spooky "There's Something Wrong With You", "Frenzy", and the positively unhinged "Alligator Wine" - a song that is the very definition of "swamp blues". Jay wasn't only about the ooga-booga, though. "Yellow Coat" and "Little Demon" are both funny, rollicking tunes.He moves through the tempo changes of "Orange Colored Sky" with great energy and dare I say it, joy. His version of "I Love Paris" is a vocal showstopper, with an ending that would undeniably bring down the house on Broadway.
If you're looking to get into Screamin' Jay, you have probably noticed there are many different compilations out there. The "Voodoo Jive" set gets mentioned most, but this CD is a much better pick over that, namely because it has a few tracks that aren't on the Rhino set. So I say buy this, and once you're a convert, pick up the import set "Alligator Wine: The Best of Screamin' Jay Hawkins". It will fill in the holes - songs like "Feast of the Mau Mau" and "Constipation Blues". The other plus is there is almost no overlap between that CD and this one.
You owe it to yourself to hear this guy.
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Screamin' Jay Hawkins is best known for leaping out of a coffin to begin his '50s stage show and for "I Put a Spell on You," an R&B plaint transformed into an excessive masterwork by (it's said) a case of wine that appeared at the session. This definitive collection of Hawkins's work for the OKeh label includes the unedited version of "Spell" along with other one-of-a-kind effusions such as "Little Demon," "Yellow Coat," and his attacks on the likes of "You Made Me Love You," "Temptation," and "Take Me Back to My Boots and Saddle." Truly an artist who stands for something. --Rickey WrightBlues Music CDs
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