The Bizarre Life of Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Screamin' Jay Hawkins was larger than life as he emerged from a coffin with a skull on a stick singing "I Put A Spell On You." With one song, Screamin' Jay, who studied piano and sang opera, became the embodiment of the sexually insatiable, voodoo-empowered, black man feared by 1950s America. Caught between self-created myth and a nearly unbelievable truth, which story is better?
