I Put A Spell On You

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I'm willing to share the chord progression I use with anyone else - the trouble is I play by ear, and I can't even identify by name one of the chords I use! Hawkins replied that when they were on stage everyone was usually so drunk they couldn’t *remember* what it was they’d been doing.

I believe if the distortion was on the tape then the sound of distortion would be coming from the center where the vocals are, and not out of the right channel. I Put a Spell on You" is a 1956 song written and composed by Jalacy "Screamin' Jay" Hawkins, whose own recording of it was selected as one of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.At that show, so many more people tried to get in than the venue had capacity for — thanks, largely, to forged tickets being sold — that the show became dangerously overcrowded, and had to be cancelled after a single song from the first artist on the bill. P. Arnold in its successor venue Night People two weeks ago, she kept referring to it as the Twisted Wheel, even though the original club closed down in 1971, because she had such strong memories of the original venue. Appearing on the song are Chrissie Hynde, Nick Cave, Johnny Depp, Bobby Gillespie, Glen Matlock, Paloma Faith and Eliza Doolittle. Bill from Salem, MaRush Limbaugh has used this song for his Mario Cuomo update theme for almost 15 years.

Episode fifty-three of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “I Put a Spell on You” by Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, and the career of a man who had more than fifty more children than hit records. His elaborate get-ups that also included shoe polish on his face, a spear and shield and, at times, performing naked with only a cloth covering his groin area, drew criticism from the NAACP and the Congress of Racial Equality.

The song was later covered by numerous other artists, including Creedence Clearwater Revival, Nina Simone and Marilyn Manson.