SCREAMIN' JAY HAWKINS, PAUL BODY, KRISTINE MCKENNA
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ART FEIN INTRODUCES HIS GUESTS KRISTINE MCKENNA AND SCREAMIN' JAY HAWKINS
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ART FEIN INTERVIEWS RHYTHM & BLUES LEGEND SCREAMING JAY HAWKINS (IN COSTUME WITH HIS MASK AND STAFF) - TALKS ABOUT HIS EARLY YEARS FROM THE EARLY 1940s PLAYING PIANO AND SAX WITH MANY OF THE EARLY BLACK BANDS IN THE EARLY-LATE 1940s - TALKS ABOUT WHY HE SWITCHED TO "SCREAMING '" - I TOOK WHAT I LEARNED FROM THE SAX AND APPLIED IT TO MY VOICE - I SCREAMED - DESTROYED A SONG!"
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| 01:03:21 201.04 |
JALACY J. HAWKINS IS HIS REAL NAME - WENT AS SCREAMING JAY HAWKINS LATER - TALKS ABOUT HIS NAME - TALKS ABOUT HIS FIRST SHOWS AS AN EMCEE AND HE WAS ASKED TO SING - LIKED ROY BROWN, WYNONIE HARRIS - PLAYED PIANO AND THEN SANG - TELLS SOME FUNNY STORIES ABOUT A BIG FAT LADY SAYING TO HIM "SCREAM MAN SCREAM" DECIDED TO " START DESTROYING SONGS AND SCREAMING " - GREAT INTERVIEW WITH SCREAMING JAY HAWKINS R&B LEGEND
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| 01:06:15 375.21 |
SCREAMING JAY TALKS ABOUT HIS RECORDING OF "I PUT A SPELL ON YOU " BEING A HIT FOR HIM IN 1949. WITH OUT THE SCREAMING AND THEN HE RE-RECORDED IT WITH THE SCREAMING' ON COLUMBIA/OKEH RECORDS IN 1952. WITH MORE SCREAMING A FEW YEARS LATER - SAM TAYLOR, PANAMA FRANCIS ON DRUMS
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SCREAMIN' JAY HAWKINS TALKS ABOUT HIS EARLY RECORD CONTRACT WHERE HE GOT AN ADVANCE BEFORE THE SHOW, BALANCE AFTER THE SHOW AND MONEY FOR HIS WARDROBE - HAD A HEARSE THAT CARRIED THE COFFIN AND A ZEBRA STRIPED CADILLAC - HAWKINS SHOWS HIS SKULL WHICH HE HAS USED SINCE 1952
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| 01:12:44 764.19 |
SCREAMIN' JAY TALKS ABOUT ALLEN FREED "I THOUGHT HE WAS BLACK" MAINLY BECAUSE OF THE MUSIC HE PLAYED WHICH WAS BLACK R&B - FREED MADE HIM USE THE COFFIN IN HIS ACT AND MAKE IT WILD - TALKS ABOUT ALLEN FREED'S "BIG BEAT" - THEY ALL THOUGHT HE WAS BLACK
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| 01:15:33 933.5 |
SCREAMIN' JAY HAWKINS TALKS ABOUT HIS EARLY ACT WITH A COFFIN, BONE IN HIS NOSE - HE WAS SAID TO BE MAKING FUN OF BLACK PEOPLE - TALKS ABOUT HOW HE WANTED TO PERFORM AND ENTERTAIN AND GIVE THE AUDIENCE A LOT OF FUN - ALLEN FREED GAVE HIM ALL THE ADVICE ABOUT THE COFFIN
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| 01:18:06 1086.84 |
SCREAMIN' JAY HAWKINS TELLS A STORY ABOUT DINAH WASHINGTON BEING THE QUEEN OF THE BLUES - "BECAUSE SHE'S SO EVIL" - GREAT STORY ABOUT DINAH WASHINGTON
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SCREAMIN' JAY HAWKINS TALKS ABOUT NINA SIMONE'S VERSION OF HIS SONG - HOW MUCH HE LOVED IT - TALKS ABOUT THE REVIVAL OF HIS SONG IN THE MOVIE "STRANGER THAN PARADISE" - HAWKINS TALKS ABOUT HOW HE FIRST HEARD ABOUT HIS SONG IN THE FILM - A FRIEND TOLD HIM ABOUT IT AND HE WENT TO THE THEATER TO SEE IT - HOW HIS ROYALTY CHECK GOT BIGGER! - HE KEPT HIS RIGHTS DID NOT SELL THEM LIKE OTHER WRITERS - HE CREDITS ALLEN FREED FOR ADVISING HIM
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| 01:26:50 1610.4 |
SCREAMIN' JAY HAWKINS CREDITS LOUIE JORDAN" HE WAS THE PIONEER " - HIS IDOL!!!
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