Description Screamin\' Jay Hawkins released "I Put a Spell On You" in 1956.
Here is Screamin\' Jay Hawkins\'s story--mean, heartbreaking, and magic..
For those needing a towpath of truth, footnotes abound to tether you through.
I Put A Spell On You brings together hundreds of interviews with Hawkins, his family, bandmates, and contemporaries.
Hawkins interpreted his past with a poetic license to kill, a magical amalgam of his own making--creating disparate stories alternatively terrible or sympathetic at his will.
And yet, little is known of the man and little can be taken at face value.
Hawkins\' music and outlandish onstage persona inspired generations of musicians after him.
It was selected as one of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame\'s 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll and was added to Rolling Stones\' list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
The song, that never made it to the charts when it was released, would eventually be covered several hundred times by the likes of Nina Simone, Credence Clearwater Revival, and Marilyn Manson
Jeff Beck and Joss Stone\'s version even received a Grammy nomination in 2010.
Description Screamin\' Jay Hawkins released "I Put a Spell On You" in 1956
