SCREAMIN' JAY HAWKINS Archives - Guerssen Records https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/artist/screamin-jay-hawkins/ Guerssen Records Tue, 15 Apr 2025 21:17:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/cropped-isotip-32x32.png SCREAMIN' JAY HAWKINS Archives - Guerssen Records https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/artist/screamin-jay-hawkins/ 32 32 The Night And Day Of… https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/product/the-night-and-day-of/ Mon, 20 Jan 2025 23:00:00 +0000 https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/product/the-night-and-day-of/ ''Music shouldn't shoulder or force its way into the album racks of any population, rather the population should induce itself to enjoy music and develop a personal taste, every soul should make up its own mind, a passion is all the greater if it has grown out of a cross selection of experiences. Generally, if a certain 'thing' becomes a great success, that success is made greater by the mass persuasive mouth of the press, by some standards the more pop and the more publicised, as the more immoral. The popularity of popular music has opened up a gap that allows second rate material to introduced, this is unfortunate for I believe that bad music is much much worse than no music at all. Popularity sometimes frightens me because it tends to endorse bad music. Just look around at what people are praising in the arts, weigh up how much is incomprehensible with how much is pretended to be understood. Bach is, popular in a minority on his own merits, not by an infectious trend, that's how I'd like it with me.''
Many can sing in tune, few (less even) can scream. Jay Hawkins was and is unique, he enjoyed his monopoly which straddled the fence of Rhythm and Blues. He was young, and screamin' was means to an end, this album isn't the end, nor the beginning of. It is one side of Mr. Hawkins, his night and day.
From the back cover notes of Screamin' Jay Hawkins' second LP, NIGHT AND DAY, released in 1967 in the UK only. Up to now.

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]]> ”Music shouldn’t shoulder or force its way into the album racks of any population, rather the population should induce itself to enjoy music and develop a personal taste, every soul should make up its own mind, a passion is all the greater if it has grown out of a cross selection of experiences. Generally, if a certain ‘thing’ becomes a great success, that success is made greater by the mass persuasive mouth of the press, by some standards the more pop and the more publicised, as the more immoral. The popularity of popular music has opened up a gap that allows second rate material to introduced, this is unfortunate for I believe that bad music is much much worse than no music at all. Popularity sometimes frightens me because it tends to endorse bad music. Just look around at what people are praising in the arts, weigh up how much is incomprehensible with how much is pretended to be understood. Bach is, popular in a minority on his own merits, not by an infectious trend, that’s how I’d like it with me.”
Many can sing in tune, few (less even) can scream. Jay Hawkins was and is unique, he enjoyed his monopoly which straddled the fence of Rhythm and Blues. He was young, and screamin’ was means to an end, this album isn’t the end, nor the beginning of. It is one side of Mr. Hawkins, his night and day.
From the back cover notes of Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ second LP, NIGHT AND DAY, released in 1967 in the UK only. Up to now.

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]]> Baptize Me In Wine, Singles & Odd. (Clear) https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/product/baptize-me-in-wine-singles-odd-clear/ Mon, 06 Jan 2025 23:00:00 +0000 https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/product/baptize-me-in-wine-singles-odd-clear/ In a long line of rock and roll outsiders hailing from Ohio, Screamin' Jay Hawkins may very well be the first. Born and raised in Cleveland, Hawkins' 1956 single "I Put A Spell On You" is one of the most instantly recognizable songs in the history of R'n'B and rock. Baptize Me In Wine compiles that classic track along with 18 other specimens of pure, unhinged, guttural R'n'B madness into what is sure to be considered the definitive Hawkins collection on the vinyl market. Most tracks were originally released as singles on the Okeh label except for the last four, which are outtakes from the first album. Before Devo, before Pere Ubu, before Guided By Voices, there was Screamin' Jay. There really must be something in the water out there.

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]]> In a long line of rock and roll outsiders hailing from Ohio, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins may very well be the first. Born and raised in Cleveland, Hawkins’ 1956 single “I Put A Spell On You” is one of the most instantly recognizable songs in the history of R’n’B and rock. Baptize Me In Wine compiles that classic track along with 18 other specimens of pure, unhinged, guttural R’n’B madness into what is sure to be considered the definitive Hawkins collection on the vinyl market. Most tracks were originally released as singles on the Okeh label except for the last four, which are outtakes from the first album. Before Devo, before Pere Ubu, before Guided By Voices, there was Screamin’ Jay. There really must be something in the water out there.

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]]> At Home With Screamin Jay Hawkins (Clear) https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/product/at-home-with-screamin-jay-hawkins-clear/ Mon, 06 Jan 2025 23:00:00 +0000 https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/product/at-home-with-screamin-jay-hawkins-clear/ By far one of the most outrageous performers of the early years of rock, prone to emerging from coffins on stage, with a flaming skull named Henry as his constant companion, Screamin' Jay was an insanely theatrical figure long before it was even remotely acceptable. His 1958 debut, At Home, featuring his legendary "I Put A Spell On You," along with surreal hits like "Hong Kong," "Take Me Back To The Boot And Saddle," or his wild-ass reinventions of old standards like "I Love Paris" and "Deep Purple" is a carefully arranged yet gritty, Ray Charles-gone-crazy styled, full band rhythm, and blues masterpiece, filled with enough howls and groans to send chills down your spine.

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]]> By far one of the most outrageous performers of the early years of rock, prone to emerging from coffins on stage, with a flaming skull named Henry as his constant companion, Screamin’ Jay was an insanely theatrical figure long before it was even remotely acceptable. His 1958 debut, At Home, featuring his legendary “I Put A Spell On You,” along with surreal hits like “Hong Kong,” “Take Me Back To The Boot And Saddle,” or his wild-ass reinventions of old standards like “I Love Paris” and “Deep Purple” is a carefully arranged yet gritty, Ray Charles-gone-crazy styled, full band rhythm, and blues masterpiece, filled with enough howls and groans to send chills down your spine.

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