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	Screamin' Jay Hawkins
		Screamin' Jay Hawkins was the first rock and roll humorist, and arguably the greatest (except maybe Zappa), salting even his most serious tunes with hilarious off-hand comments and other peculiar sounds.
		Hawkins died in early 2000 after surgery for an aneurism.
		Hawkins spent the next ten years dealing with a multitude of personal problems, including a prison term and a self-imposed exile to Hawaii, and released only a few singles during that period.
	www.warr.org /screaminjay.html (1460 words)

	Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jalacy Hawkins, best known as Screamin' Jay Hawkins (born in Cleveland, Ohio July 18, 1929 - February 12, 2000) was an African American singer famed for his wildly theatrical performances of songs like "I Put a Spell on You" and "Constipation Blues".
		Hawkins was an avid and formidable boxer: in 1949, he was the middleweight boxing champion of Alaska.
		Hawkins had several further hits, including "Constipation Blues", "Orange Colored Sky", and "Feast of the Mau Mau", which capitalized on the cannibalistic reputation, but nothing he released had the massive success of "I Put A Spell On You".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Screamin'_Jay_Hawkins (920 words)

	BBC News \| AMERICAS \| Screamin' Jay Hawkins dies
		Hawkins died of a haemorrhage in hospital in the Neuilly suburb of Paris, where he had undergone an operation earlier in the week on an obstructed bowel.
		Hawkins joined the army aged 14 and won several middleweight boxing titles before joining the army's entertainment unit, singing and playing the piano and tenor saxophone.
		Hawkins' flamboyant stage persona - he sang I Put a Spell On You in a coffin brandishing a voodoo totem and often appeared with a bone in his nose - became as famous as his aggressive singing style.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/641003.stm (432 words)

	SKIP POP SCRATCH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Jay screamed, laughed and snorted into the mike like a wild man. The result terrified Jay, he had a hard time believing it was his voice on the record and he wasn’t sure he wanted to be a novelty performer.
		Alan Freed paid Jay to emerge from a coffin on stage in 1956 and the coffin was soon a part of the act.
		Jay got locked in his coffin more than once, was injured by explosions, got into fistfights, and ended up in jail.
	www.skippopscratch.com /sps3220/hawkins (649 words)

	Screamin' Jay Hawkins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		His most successful recording, "I Put a Spell on You" (1956) starts out with the big-voiced Hawkins singing a ballad to a lost love, but soon the performance becomes almost demented as Hawkins is threatening wildly, screaming, grunting and groaning and reclaiming the lady as his own.
		Up to this time, Hawkins had been a blues singer with a very stylish wardrobe, featuring leopard skins, red leather, and wild hats, but Freed had the caped Hawkins rise up out of a coffin in the midst of smoke and fog.
		Hawkins also toured with The Clash and Nick Cave during this period, and also became a fixture not only of blues festivals, but also film festivals.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/screamin__jay_hawkins (625 words)

	Jayskids.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Jay was know to travel incognito around the Queen city and met my mother in front of Schawbs Drugstore she was wearing capri pants and eating a ice cream cone, waiting for her current boyfriend who was reportedly a member of a subversive group know as the brotherhood of the Mau Mau!.
		She was a Jay fan and in a concert she had the opportunity, and knew the person, that 9 months later became my father.
		She still loves the blues and Jay Hawkins is one of a handful of musicians that she speaks of often, along with B.B. King...
	www.citynetmedia.com /client/jayskids/kidsfound.html (4501 words)

	SJH
		According to legend, Jay refused to believe that the bloodcurdling baritone on the recording was his.
		Screamin' Jay Hawkins began barnstorming the country with his coffin, his skull and his extremely odd repertoire of deconstructed standards and novelty songs.
		On one occasion at the Apollo, Screamin' Jay asked one of the members of the Drifters to stick the matchbook in the lock on his way down to the stage.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Lot/3001/sjh_the_1950s.html (1459 words)

	The Official Community of Buddy Holly
		Screaming Jay Hawkins was born Jalancy J. Hawkins on July 18th, 1929 in Cleveland, Ohio.
		Alan Freed once paid Jay to emerge from a coffin on stage and soon, the coffin became a part of his act.
		In 1974, Jay Hawkins realized his alcoholism was destroying his life and although he feared that alcohol was what made his show so interesting, he got help.
	www.buddyholly.com /tournotes/screaming_jay.aspx (249 words)

	Screamin' Jay Hawkins Biography : Oldies.com
		Hawkins was also an adept young boxer, winning an amateur Golden Gloves contest and becoming Middleweight Champion of Alaska in 1949.
		In 1956, Screamin' Jay (as he was now known) signed with Columbia Records' reactivated OKeh Records subsidiary and enjoyed enormous success with his manic - and apparently drunken - rendition of his own "I Put A Spell On You", which he had recorded earlier as a ballad for Grand Records.
		To enhance this ghoulish strangeness, on his tours with rock 'n' roll package shows, Hawkins was encouraged by Alan Freed to use macabre props such as skulls, snakes and shrunken heads and to begin his act from the inside of a coffin.
	www.oldies.com /artist-biography/Screamin-Jay-Hawkins.html (682 words)

	Project2.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Jay learned a lot from the step family he grew up with such as how to live in the forest with no blankets or food, and how to eat bark, plants, flowers.
		Now just because Jay Hawkins grew up with Indians and learned skills to live in nature it does not mean that he lived in the forest.
		When Jay Hawkins was fourteen years old he enlisted in the army.
	web.nwe.ufl.edu /~stripp/S00/amartin/project2.html (440 words)

	Screaming Jay Hawkins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		His three kids with the woman he was married to had mixed emotions about the whole thing, although one of them in particular found it very hard to come to terms with.
		One of the most interesting and moving things in the programme, however, was hearing a recording of Jay's voice on a tape that he made for his (legitimate) daughter just two weeks before he died.
		There was some film of Jay in the 90s where he had tazers on his wrists and ankles to stun people that came too close to him.
	xnet2.com /bomp/searchable/0105/msg00754.html (285 words)

	project2p4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		What has made Screaming Jay Hawkins so memorable and unique for his time is his stage performance and music delivery.
		If; however, you were fortunate enough to see Screamin' Jay perform live, or witness his song on television you would be intrigued by the elaborate costumes and general atmosphere of the whole show.
		Jay's style was unlike anything anyone of that time had ever seen before.
	web.nwe.ufl.edu /~stripp/S00/amartin/project2p4.html (298 words)

	Screaming Jay Hawkins
		At the incredible age of three, JAY was already playing the piano "by ear", which led his foster mother to bring in a teacher.
		JAY had no use for teachers, "I worried that teacher so much until he left, permanently!" he relates.
		JAY recorded for the second time a straight ballad entitled "I Put A Spell On You".
	www.lastcallrecords.com /biographies/screamingjay.html (1082 words)

	Barthelemy Rants and Raves...: 50's channel on XM... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		First they play a Screaming Jay Hawkins song, and the man truly was screaming.
		Finally, did you know that Screaming Jay Hawkins had 57 illegitimate kids that were known to exist, and it is expected that up to 75 total may exist.
		Yeah, i read somewhere that Screamin Jay actually had some sort of thing where if people could come forward and prove that he was their father then he would provide some sort of compensation, not sure how much...
	barthelemys.blogspot.com /2005/07/50s-channel-on-xm.html (342 words)

	Screamin' Jay Hawkins : Screaming Jay Hawkins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Jalacy Hawkins, best known as Screamin' Jay Hawkins (July 18, 1929 - February 12, 2000) was an African American singer famed for his wildly theatrical performances of songs like "I Put a Spell on You" and "Constipation Blues".
		His most successful recording, "I Put a Spell on You" (1956) starts out with the big-voiced Hawkins singing a ballad to a lost love, but soon he is threatening wildly, screaming, grunting and groaning and reclaiming the lady as his own.
		It uses material from the wikipedia article Screamin' Jay Hawkins : Screaming Jay Hawkins.
	www.eurofreehost.com /sc/Screaming_Jay_Hawkins.html (391 words)

	Screaming Jay Hawkins
		JAY enregistre pour la seconde fois une ballade de son cru intitulée "I Put A Spell On You".
		Depuis lors, JAY n'a cessé de brandir haut et sans faiblir la bannière d'un "rock'n'horror" musclé, irrévérencieux et définitivement revigorant.
		Il suffit de prononcer le nom de Screamin' Jay Hawkins et aussitôt ils veulent la folie, l'homme-vaudou, le docteur en sorcelleries...".
	www.lastcallrecords.com /stories/ScreaminJay_fr.html (1325 words)

	Screamin' Jay Hawkins Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Screamin' Jay Hawkins was a rock-and-roll performer from the 50's and 60's who never sold a lot of records, but he had a stage show to beat just about anyone's.
		To open his act, Screamin' Jay would be carried out onto the stage in a coffin.
		In the late 50's rock-and-roll was cleaning up its image a little, and Screamin' Jay Hawkins didn't quite fit, so he wasn't able to sell records.
	www.tsimon.com /jhawkins.htm (449 words)

	Brave Combo-Official Web Site \| Machine's Pump
		Screaming Jay was a wild performer that appeared as a fl Dracula and used stage props like coffins, burning headgear and voodoo dolls.
		A few days later, Club Dada learned that Screaming Jay was bringing a gun to Dallas because someone in Texas wanted to kill him.
		Speaking of Screaming Jay's legacy, Alan Price, the original organist for the British band, The Animals, recorded a beautiful, classically tinged arrangement of "I Put A Spell On You." It was a minor hit for his band, The Alan Price Set.
	www.brave.com /bo/scrapbook/pump/sept04.htm (1306 words)

	Amazon.com: I Put a Spell on You: Music: Screamin' Jay Hawkins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Jay definitely has the mojo and the juice to carry this wonderful album.
		Screaming Jay Hawkins "I Put A Spell On You" is one of the definitive albums of the bizarre 1960's.
		The strange delivery of Screaming Jay works wonders with the orchestral sound of the band on songs like Orange Color Sky, and his jibberish yip yapping on Hong Kong are not only hysterical, but funky as well.
	www.amazon.com /Put-Spell-You-Screamin-Hawkins/dp/B0000008TC (1005 words)

	Turbans!
		On someone else, say a maniac like Screaming Jay Hawkins, a turban is just another bizarre accessory, there to let you know that this is not a sane man. That dichotomy, a tenuous balance between the suave and the crazy is where turbans would teeter forever more.
		He sported the turban proudly, while stealing a lot of juice from his stylistic forefather Screaming Jay Hawkins (a far superior performer).
		Screaming Jay Hawkins was the ORIGINAL rock and roll wildman.
	funky16corners.tripod.com /turbans1.htm (1326 words)

	SOLD! SCREAMIN' JAY HAWKINS I Put A Spell On You SIGNED CARD
		Screamin' Jay Hawkins was the most outrageous performer extant during rock's dawn.
		Hawkins' life story is almost as bizarre as his onstage shtick.
		Hawkins caught his first musical break in 1951 as pianist/valet to veteran jazz guitarist Tiny Grimes.
	www.thejukejoint.com /scjayhabiput.html (599 words)

	I PUT A SPELL ON ME - Screaming Jay Hawkins - DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The legendary Screamin’ Jay Hawkins was a great influence on many musicians and his performances were so highly provocative in their originality that even today they can be considered “revolutionary”.
		Screamin’ Jay Hawkins met Nicholas Triandafyllidis and commissioned him to make a documentary about his notorious life in and out of the music industry.
		Screaming Jay came to Greece and he gave his very last concerts in Thessaloniki and Athens, before his sudden death in Paris in 2000.
	www.fbo.com.au /movie.asp?ID=7401 (262 words)

	Screamin' Jay Hawkins - press: "Stuart Colman presents Repeating echoes" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		And l was on the road doing a lot of things under the name of Screamin' Jay Hawkins before rock'n'roll, but l was better known in those days for piano, not for singing or screaming.
		Jay, we've got just one more record we can squeeze into the programme, we need days to tell the whole Screamin' Jay Hawkins story.
		My guest today, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, "Armpit no. 6", which is the B side to a remake of "I put a spell on you".
	home.datacomm.ch /mik/ba/h/hawkins_jay/press/nowdigthis2000_203-1.html (5192 words)

	Screamin' Jay Hawkins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ mother “wasn’t much of a mother,” he recalled.
		Hawkins never had another hit to rival “I Put a Spell on You,” but it was not for lack of trying.
		But Hawkins made money touring in Europe and from royalties garnered by other artists who covered his tunes, including The Jackson Five and Marilyn Manson, both acts surely benefiting in different ways from Hawkins over-the-top oddness.
	www.goodbyemag.com /jan00/hawkins.html (1013 words)

	NPR : Screaming Jay Hawkins Obit
		All Things Considered, February 14, 2000 ·; Screaming Jay Hawkins, a blues singer and pianist has died.
		He ended up singing it with a series of groans, screams and yells.
		Hawkins later added bizarre stage props, such as coffins, rubber snakes and spiders to his act.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1070348 (171 words)

	Encyclopedia: Screaming Jay Hawkins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
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		Click for other authoritative sources for this topic (summarised at Factbites.com).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Screaming-Jay-Hawkins (892 words)

	www.myspace.com/screaminjayhawkins
		Hawkins for the add, ya know I was thinkin' maybe you're my father there's a remarkable resemblance, striking ain't it?
		screamin jay is one of two artists, who without fail, cheer me up no matter what the mood.
		its better to be a jays kid than a jerrys kid.
	www.myspace.com /screaminjayhawkins (493 words)

	TelstarWeb's Tribute to Dave Sutch Screaming Lord Sutch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Sutch, inspired by American blues legend Screaming Jay Hawkins, put on a show that mixed tough, raw rock and roll with generous doses of horror.
		Joe had experimented briefly with horror-rock with the MoonTrekkers track `Night of the Vampire' but in Screaming Lord Sutch he had found someone with a strong personality and the drive, ambition and sense of style to pull it off in grand Meek fashion.
		AfterMeek: Dave `Screaming Lord' Sutch still regularly ran in English by-elections (most recently in the new, ecologically minded Monster Raving Loony Green Teeth Party!), issued the occasional, unsuccessful recording, and treaded the boards of the pub/music circuit.
	www.bigglethwaite.com /telstar/artistes/sutch/sutch_tribute.htm (535 words)

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