Screamin' Jay Hawkins was a blues/soul singer known for his over- the-top theatricality and the hit "I Put a Spell on You." Born on July 18, 1929, in Cleveland, Ohio, "Screamin'" Jay Hawkins was a ...

For all the wrong reasons, legendary zombie blues howler Screamin’ Jay Hawkins hated my guts. Our relationship was pretty much doomed from the start. I just couldn’t do anything right in his eyes. He ...

May 18 will see the release of Are YOU One of Jay's Kids?, a collection of songs recorded by wildman blues/R&B legend Screamin' Jay Hawkins for Bizarre Records between 1990 and 1994. Fourty-four songs ...

“Screamin' Jay's the shit,” proclaims Eszter Balint as she lugs a boom box blaring Screamin' Jay Hawkins' 1956 recording of “I Put a Spell on You” down a New Jersey street in a key sequence from Jim ...