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Episode 53: “I Put a Spell on You” by Screamin’ Jay Hawkins

A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs

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Hawkins and the Or, She Put the Wammy on Me

In september 19 56, he went into the studio to record his first single for them. The producer at the session wanted something a bit different from hawkins. So maxim decided to order in some crates of beer and fried chicken, and told them, this isn't a recording session. It's a party. Have fun. When they were drunk enough, he started recording, and the result was this, not ifyou don't wame risbel. In later years, hawkins would try to claim that he had been tricked into that performance, and that he'd had to relearn the song from the record after the fact because he couldn't remember what it was he'd been

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