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Life For Jay Hawkins Is Still A Scream

Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 25 December 1983

"MAN, I WAS 20 years ahead of my time," says rocker Screamin' Jay Hawkins, whose early '50s recording of 'I Put a Spell on You' will someday be permanently enshrined in the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame — just as soon as they finish the psycho ward.

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