SCREAMIN' JAY HAWKINS 78 I PUT A SPELL ON YOU / LITTLE DEMON US OKEH 7672 E/E+
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AN ORIGINAL US OKEH 78 rpm PRESSING OF THIS CLASSIC FROM SCREAMIN' JAY HAWKINS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION
I PUT A SPELL ON YOU
b/w LITTLE DEMON
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.
His real name at birth in 1929 in Cleveland was Jalacy Hawkins. In 1947 he was a Golden Gloves boxer and won the middleweight championship. He played the piano, and sometimes sang, with Tiny Grimes and others. He developed a talent for coming up with humorous lyrics and went on his own in the mid-50's. Hawkins recorded songs for numerous labels.
His most successful song -- one which never made the top forty -- was I Put A Spell On You, which he recorded on the Okeh label in 1956. In order that it could be played on the radio, some of the moans and groans had to be edited out. He developed a knockout stage show to go along with it. To open his act, Screamin' Jay would be carried out onto the stage in a coffin. A coffin that was in flames. He used various props, including a rubber snake, a skull on a stick, a smoke-box that had been built by an electrician at the Apollo Theatre, and a black satin cape. He had a drive and a delivery that went along with I Put A Spell On You and it all made for quite an event. One critic described it as being on the "surrealistic borderline."
DISC DETAILS:
US OKEH 7672 10" 78rpm SHELLAC
SIDE 1:- I PUT A SPELL ON YOU
SIDE 2:- LITTLE DEMON
CONDITION - EXCELLENT E/E+
TWO SUPERB SIDES
on an original US OKEH 78
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THIS 78 COMES FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE PETER FEAST
A GREAT COLLECTIOR OF ROCK-A-BILLY, COUNTRY, RHYTHM & BLUES, AND ROCK & ROLL RECORDS
10" 78 RPM RECORDS NEED CAREFULLY PACKING, AND WE CLAIM TO HAVE THE BEST PACKAGING IN THE WORLD FOR DISPATCHING THEM!
THE GREG'S GREAT'S SYSTEM CONSISTS OF A SPECIALLY DESIGNED INNER BOX MADE OUT OF 1" THICK POLYSTYRENE, WHICH THEN GOES INSIDE A CORRUGATED STIFF OUTER CARDBOARD CARTON. THE BOXES CAN TAKE UP TO 21 RECORDS,
WE SEND OUT ON AVERAGE ABOUT 30 PARCELS A WEEK AND DISPATCH IS NORMALLY DONE ONCE A WEEK.
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