Research into chosen song - Screamin Jay Hawkins I put a spell on you

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Jalacy Hawkins (July 18, 1929, Cleveland, Ohio — February 12, 2000, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France), best known as Screamin' Jay Hawkins was an African-American musician, singer, and actor. He was famed chiefly for his powerful, operatic vocal delivery and wildly theatrical performances of songs such as "I Put a Spell on You", and would often use macabre props onstage, making him the one of few original shock rockers.

His most successful recording, "I Put a Spell on You" (1956), was selected as one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. According to the AllMusic Guide to the Blues, "Hawkins originally envisioned the tune as a refined ballad." The entire band was intoxicated during a recording session where "Hawkins screamed, grunted, and gurgled his way through the tune with utter drunken abandon." The resulting performance was no ballad but instead a "raw, guttural track" that became his greatest commercial success and reportedly surpassed a million copies in sales, although it failed to make the Billboard pop or R&B charts.

The performance was mesmerizing, although Hawkins himself blacked out and was unable to remember the session. Afterward he had to relearn the song from the recorded version. Meanwhile the record label released a second version of the single, removing most of the grunts that had embellished the original performance; this was in response to complaints about the recording's overt sexuality. Nonetheless it was banned from radio in some areas.

Soon after the release of "I Put a Spell on You", radio disc jockey Alan Freed offered Hawkins $300 to emerge from a coffin onstage. Hawkins accepted and soon created an outlandish stage persona in which performances began with the coffin and included "gold and leopard skin costumes and notable voodoo stage props, such as his smoking skull on a stick – named Henry – and rubber snakes". These props were suggestive of voodoo, but also presented with comic overtones that invited comparison to "a black Vincent Price." On Notorious B.I.G's posthumous release, Life After Death, the song "Kick In The Door" heavily samples the saxophone line in Screamin' Jay's song.

I have chosen to use this song because I really love it and I think the freedom of it refelects the rebellious nature of the men and the flirtatious nature of the women of the Film Noir genre. I don't think you were allowed to have over 30 seconds or 20 seconds of a song that is copyrighted, but I played mine through a record player, which counted differently and so I had about 30 seconds of the song and also I edited the song slightly by cutting it because it was too long and so I joined two bits of the song together and apparently if you adapted the song on a music editing software such as garage you can put the song on without getting in trouble, but don't hold me to that.

One of the things I worried about was if it would fit in with the film noir genre. A film that the song has featured in is a film called Stranger than Paradise. But I think that it would fit in with how it suddenly changes from the suspense to the relief that the tension is over but the confusion of why he just shot her, what with the weirdly jubilant music as Jack struts away with confidence. Its such a large contrast and thats what worries me, but I enjoy it and think that you need some quick changes sometimes, a bit of spice in your life.

Perhaps another idea for a song could be James Brown - its a mans world, because it would be quite ironic how in my OTS, the men are the dominant and more powerful ones, in the more higher situation, and he is singing how its a mans world.