Screamin' Jay Hawkins
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Profile and Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 12 May 1972
THOUGH SOMEWHAT quiet on the recording scene of late, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, the original wildman of our music, is still attracting large audiences in the ...
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Screamin' Jay Hawkins: Flamingo Club/Bromley Court Hotel, London
Live Review by uncredited writer, Record Mirror, 13 February 1965
STARS AND showbiz personalities rubbed shoulders with mods and even some rockers in Soho's Flamingo last week to witness a fantastic display by Screamin' Jay ...
Screamin' Jay Hawkins: King of Rock and Horror
Interview by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 5 June 1965
EVERY ONCE in a while someone different comes along. In January, none other than the legendary Screamin' Jay Hawkins entered Britain, and established himself as ...
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins: Screamin’ Jay Hawkins (French CBS)
Review by Bill Millar, Shout, March 1969
You Made Me Love You/ I Put A Spell On You /Alligator Wine /Little Demon/ There 's Something Wrong With You/Orange Coloured Sky/Yellow Coat/Take Me ...
Screamin' Jay Hawkins: What That Is! (Phillips)
Review by John Mendelsohn, Rolling Stone, 15 November 1969
THE KEY TO this album is its honesty. Producer Milan Melvin has been faithful to Screamin' Jay and his music right down to the picture ...
Screamin' Jay Hawkins: Screamin’ Jay Hawkins (Philips)
Review by Bill Millar, Shout, June 1970
Please Don’t Leave Me; I Wanta Know; I Need You; My Marion; Bite It; Move Me/Goodnight My Love/Our Love Is Not For 3; Ain’t Nobody’s ...
Interview by Nick Tosches, Creem, August 1973
Valerie's torrid flesh sings with the lyrics of passion and singes with the heat of burning desire ...
Profile by Cliff White, Black Music, April 1974
IN 1965 Nina Simone strengthened her newly-won acclaim as the High Priestess of Soul with a dramatic reworking of a unique echo from the fifties. ...
European Blues and R&B Festival
Report by Cliff White, New Musical Express, 22 November 1975
TEN YEARS AGO Britain was set to become the R&B capital of the world. Between 1962 and '67 we were visited by so many legendary ...
The Clash, Screamin' Jay Hawkins: Ritchie Coliseum, College Park MD
Live Review by Joe Sasfy, The Washington Post, 1 October 1979
ENGLAND'S CLASH brought their version of rock's civil war to Ritchie Coliseum Saturday night. By the time they ended their second encore, a hypersonic invitation ...
Rock Shock Horror: Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
Retrospective by Cliff White, The History of Rock, 1981
INFAMOUSLY KNOWN AS THE "original king of shock rock" or the "weirdest one-hit of them all", Screamin’ Jay Hawkins fits neither bill. He’s never ...
Life For Jay Hawkins Is Still A Scream
Profile and Interview by 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' ...
Screamin' Jay Hawkins: The Man Who Ate Nick Cave
Interview by Lynden Barber, New Musical Express, 19 July 1986
The bats screech, and inside a rockin' coffin, something stirs...up fly the nails and out pops SCREAMIN' JAY HAWKINS, longtime voodoo swamp beast back to ...
Sleeve notes by Gene Sculatti, Sony/Epic Records, 1991
As with most successful artists, Screamin' Jay Hawkins career hung on lots of ifs... It might not have happened at all if his first manager ...
That's Entertainment: Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
Retrospective by Bill Millar, MOJO, May 1995
Psst. Hey, bud, you want "cryptic tales of mojo-bones, constipation, the Mau Mau, cunnilingus and flannel lipped, bald-headed women"? You got it! Ladeez and gennelmen, ...
I Put A Spell On You: Bill Millar pays tribute to the late, great Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
Retrospective by Bill Millar, unpublished, March 2000
"WHY NOT BE at London Airport to welcome Jay?" That was the invitation in the late Roger Eagle’s R & B Scene. And so, on ...
Screamin' Jay Hawkins: The Whamee 1953-55 (Rev-Ola)
Review by Lois Wilson, MOJO, November 2006
Born bad: early recordings for Grand, Mercury, Wing, Timely and Gotham. ...
Screamin' Jay Hawkins: Spellbound
Retrospective by David Burke, Vintage Rock, Summer 2018
FOR SOMEONE whose live performances involved climbing out of a coffin, it came as no surprise that Screamin' Jay Hawkins resurrected his career in the ...
Steve Bergsman: I Put A Spell On You – The Bizarre Life Of Screamin' Jay Hawkins (Feral House)
Book Review by Bill Wasserzieher, Ugly Things, Summer 2019
WHAT CAN BE said about the artist known as Screamin' Jay Hawkins? Perhaps that he did more to promote over-population than any other American, fathering ...
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