Halloween music
Nothing could be funnier or scarier than Screamin' Jay Hawkins performing I Put A Spell On You. In a great Radio London interview, Hawkins reminisced about the original recording of the song and said, "...every member of the band was drunk. And the man who was the A&R man, his name was Arnold Maxim for Columbia Records — he was drunk! And the engineer, who was mixing the sound and doing the mastering and the editing — he was drunk!" Thus is great art created.
At Halloween, Screamin' Jay Hawkins comes across as a kind of anti-Michael Jackson: funny instead of sad; mad instead of bad; real instead of fake. And when he says "I love you", one has to laugh instead of feeling frightened. Far better voice, as well.
