Screamin Jay Hawkins Rare Unissued or Just Plain Weird lp

lp
2012/1953-59
new
Boxer, aspiring opera singer, tortured prisoner of war, & father to 75 entirely different children by busloads of ladies, Hawkins hit 'I Spell On You' was recorded for fun while he & the band were blackout drunk. The radio banned it immediately, giving it legs, & Hawkins had to learn how to perform it from the recording. Then marketing mastermind Alan Freed offered Jay $300 to come out of a coffin onstage & he spent the rest of his life getting comfy with rubber snakes. Hawkins was an effective jump blues baritone shouter outside of the fluke that made his career, and he could whinny like a horse on cue when needed. Plenty of neato outtakes & lesser knowns to choose from. Tracklisting: Why Did You Waste My Time, No Hug No Kiss, In My Front Room, What That Is, Take Me Back, I Is, I Put a Spell On You, $10000 Lincoln Continental, Pauline, Frenzy, Person to Person, There's Something Wrong With You, Alligator Wine, Armpit No 6, The Past.