Jalacy "Screamin' Jay" Hawkins was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Famed chiefly for his powerful, operatic vocal delivery and wildly theatrical performances of songs such as "I ...

Screamin’ Jay Hawkins stayed drunk through most of the psychedelic ’60s. When I encountered him, in the early spring of 1973, he had put his Black & White scotch aside and was on the wagon. He drank ...

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“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 ...