Biography

Screamin' Jay Hawkins was a true wild man, even by first-generation rock & roll standards. A veritable musical witch doctor, he combined swampy blues, R&B punch, and rockabilly carousing, adding in his own fascination with voodoo, magic, and loopy exotica to create a stew all of his own. He was the originator of outrageous onstage theatrics, often rising out of a coffin onstage. A talent as mercurial as Jay's is never meant for constancy, but he inspired generations of rock & roll weirdos and appeared in Jim Jarmusch's 1989 film MYSTERY TRAIN before checking out of the mortal plane in 2000.

Top Tracks

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• (she Put The) Wamee (on Me)

• Alligator Wine

• Baptize Me In Wine

• Constipation Blues

• Deep In Love

• Feast Of The Mau Mau

• Feast Of The Mau-mau

• Frenzy

• Hong Kong

• I Am The Cool

• I Put A Spell On You

• I Put The Spell On You

• Itty Bitty Pretty One

• Little Bitty Pretty One

• Little Demon

• Monkberry Moon Delight

• Ol' Man River

• Pot Luck

• Same Damn Thing

• Shattered

• She Put The Whamee On Me

• Shut Your Mouth When You Sneeze

• There's Something Wrong With You

• Well I Tried

• Whistling Past The Graveyard

• Yellow Coat

• You Put The Spell On Me

Discography

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• Live at the Olympia, Paris

  Last Call

  1999

• At Last

  Last Call

  1998

• Somethin' Funny Goin On

  Planet 3 Records / Bizarre/Straight

  1995

• I Shake My Stick at You [AIM]

  Aim Records

  1994

• Stone Crazy

  Rhino

  1993

• Live & Crazy

  Evidence

  1989

• Live [Midnight]

  Midnight Music

  1985

• Real Live

  Charly Records

  1983

• Screamin' Jay Hawkins [Philips]

  Philips

  1970

• What That Is!

  Polygram

  1969

• A Night at Forbidden City

  Sounds of Hawaii

  196?

• At Home with Screamin' Jay Hawkins

  Ais / Hoo Doo Records

  1958