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Karin Kent - I Put A Spell On You (Screamin' Jay Hawkins Cover)

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Uploaded by on Jan 24, 2012

From '' Dans Je De Hele Nacht Met Mij ''
Label: Decca -- QL 625 369
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
Country: Netherlands
Released: 1966

Tracklist
A1 Dans Je De Hele Nacht Met Mij? (Dance Mamma, Dance Pappa, Dance)
A2 You're No Good
A3 Zalig Zijn (Wouldn't It Be Loverly)
A4 There'll Never Be Another You
A5 In De Mist
A6 It's Allright
B1 'T Is Te Laat (It's Too Late)
B2 I Put A Spell On You
B3 Miss Dynamiet (Miss Dynamite)
B4 The Laziest Girl
B5 Loop Nou Niet Weg (Do You Really Love Me Too) (Fool's Errand)
B6 Sweet Nothin'

Accompanied By -- The Toreros

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"I Put a Spell on You" is a 1956 song written by Screamin' Jay Hawkins, whose recording was selected as one of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.
It was also ranked #320 on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

Although Hawkins' version did not make any charts, several later cover versions have done so.
Nina Simone's version reached # 23 in the US Billboard R&B chart in 1965; it also reached # 49 in the UK singles chart that year, and # 28 when it was reissued in 1969.
The version by The Alan Price Set reached # 9 in the UK in 1966, and # 80 on the Billboard Hot 100. Creedence Clearwater Revival's version reached # 58 on the US Hot 100 in 1968.
In the UK, Bryan Ferry's version reached # 18 in 1993, and the version by Sonique reached # 36 in 1998 and # 5 on reissue in 2000.
The song has been recorded by numerous other artists. The song version by Jeff Beck featuring Joss Stone, was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal at 53rd Grammy Awards.

Covers and samples

Shane MacGowan and Friends cover

Shane MacGowan, Nick Cave, Bobby Gillespie, Chrissie Hynde, Mick Jones and a guitar-wielding Johnny Depp joined forces to release their take on "I Put A Spell On You" in aid of Concern Worldwide's work in Haiti. Moved by the plight of the people of Haiti following the devastating 2010 earthquake, McGowan and his long term girlfriend Victoria Clarke quickly assembled a group of friends and set about recording a version of the song. "I Put A Spell On You" was released on March 8, 2010, via download only.

"I Put a Spell on You" has been covered very many times, perhaps most famously by Nina Simone in 1965, Alan Price in 1966, and Bette Midler in the 1993 movie Hocus Pocus.
Other artists to record the song include:

Casey Abrams
Howlin' Pelle Almqvist
The Animals
Natacha Atlas
Audience
Jimmy Barnes
Batmobile
Jeff Beck and Joss Stone
Tab Benoit
The Birthday Party
Arthur Brown
Eric Burdon performed it live at his show in Lugano in 2006.
C.A. Quintet
Cameo
Caterina Caselli Italian singer (cover "Puoi farmi piangere", 1966)
Champion with guest vocalist Betty Bonifassi
Ray Charles
Joe Cocker
Creedence Clearwater Revival (who also performed it at Woodstock)
Tim Curry
Dionysos
Julien Doré
Eels
Estelle
Bryan Ferry
Jools Holland with Mica Paris and David Gilmour
Diamanda Galás
The Guards (1968)
Buddy Guy (featuring Carlos Santana)
The Heavy
The Kills
Jarboe
Logan Kendell (feat. Jessie Crystal)
Queen Latifah
Phil Lesh & Friends (live cover in 2007)
Manfred Mann
Marilyn Manson
Katie Melua
Bette Midler (from the film Hocus Pocus)
Kim Nalley
Iggy Pop / Catherine Ringer
Alan Price
Gabriel Ríos
Roxy Music
She and Him
Nina Simone
Sonique
Them (featuring Van Morrison)
Pete Townshend on his Deep End Live! album (with David Gilmour).
Bonnie Tyler

Most of the covers treat the song seriously; few attempt to duplicate Hawkins's bravura performance. Arthur Brown comes close.

In 1967, the arrangement was used once more for Frank Sinatra's "The World We Knew (Over and Over)".

Also, it has been sampled on tracks by The Notorious B.I.G. ("Kick In The Door"), The Beatnuts ("Se Acabo"), LL Cool J and The Heavy ("Sixteen"). Producers Cookin' Soul reworked the sample used by The Notorious B.I.G, incorporating more elements of the original song and changing the tempo, and released a song featuring Styles P of The LOX.

The song has been used as the exit music for the annual Halloween fireworks show HalloWishes at Walt Disney World in Florida. It can also be heard at the end of Halloween Screams at Disneyland and Disney's Nightmare in the Sky at Hong Kong Disneyland.

The title of the song was borrowed to name one of the quests in the role-playing game Fallout New Vegas, as one of the numerous references and allusions to the music of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s in that game.

The song also functions as an important motif in the classic 1984 independent film by Jim Jarmusch Stranger than Paradise.

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