I Put A Spell On You

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Her favorite Halloween things include pumpkin guts, chocolate bars in her trick-or-treat pail, real haunted houses, and historic cemeteries. He hadn’t made a will since the 1970s, and that will left most of his money to his second wife, Ginny, who most people seem to agree deserved it if anyone did — she was with him for sixteen years, and tolerated the worst of his behaviour. Since then, many artists have covered it, and I’ve rounded up some of my favorites in this playlist.Freed insisted, and eventually ended up paying Hawkins a large bonus — which Hawkins would later claim was multiple thousands of dollars, but which actually seems to have been about three hundred dollars, itself a lot of money in 1956. He hadn’t wanted her back because he loved her, he’d wanted her back so that he could be the one to do the dumping, not her. The accompaniment uses an exotic musical scale but if you listen closely you can recognize a modified 12-bar blues progression. I tried to put together a Spotify playlist instead, but a few of the recordings I use here aren’t on Spotify. Hawkins replied that when they were on stage everyone was usually so drunk they couldn’t *remember* what it was they’d been doing.

Their recording was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal at the 53rd Grammy Awards.

On February 8, 2015, she sang it at the Grammy Awards after joining Hozier for his performance of Song of the Year nominee " Take Me to Church.

And most of those one-hit wonders might as well have had no hits for all the impact they actually made on the genre. The following week, Lennox' version of "I Put A Spell On You" appeared in the movie 50 Shades of Grey and was included on the soundtrack. Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn this day in 1965 {July 2nd} Nina Simone performed "l Put A Spell On You" on the British ITV network television program, 'Ready Steady Go! On his first record, with Grimes, he’s not the blues shouter that he had a reputation of being, and nor is he the screamer he would later become — instead he sounds like he’s imitating Clyde McPhatter’s singing on “The Bells” by Billy Ward and His Dominoes, but in a bass register somewhat reminiscent of Paul Robeson. Shane MacGowen of the Pogues put together a new version of "I Put A Spell On You" with many of his famous friends to provide relief for the people of Haiti, who were devastated by an earthquake in 2010.More often than not, covers, in themselves, come up with some fresh improvisations for the already-existing song, as a means of making it more compatible with the cover artist’s style, or just to create a different rendition. The following year, Hawkins re-recorded the song for Columbia's Okeh Records—the notorious screaming version, which was released in October 1956. Dressed in a fancy suit, he starts singing a couple of lines from the song while walking through the kitchen. He always claimed, for example, that in his time in the army he had been captured by the Japanese and tortured for eighteen months.

In truth, though, it’s not that different from a record like “(She Put the) Wamee (On Me)”, and it seems more than likely that this is yet more of Hawkins’ exaggeration. Grimes first met Hawkins backstage at the Moondog Coronation Ball — a legendary gig put on by Alan Freed in 1952, which was the first big sign to Freed of just how successful rock and roll was going to become.The 2016 pressing of Nina Simone’s “I Put a Spell on You” offers a sonic experience that is simply magnificent. A year later, Hawkins recorded the version that became famous for another label, and transformed the song into a spooky tale about putting a curse on the girl so he can have her. Hawkins first recorded "I Put a Spell on You" as a ballad during his stint with Grand Records in late 1955. When the producer asked why he could do the song effectively on stage but not in the studio, Hawkins explained that he never did a concert sober.