Yes, Rob
it was the Nina Simone cover version I was thinking of. It's slightly
annoying in that I had suggested that to people and they'd hotly denied it,
this all while the smart bombs fall on Iraq, at least they say they're
smart, as some poor bugger probably gets blown up while sitting on the john
in Baghdad in a public toilet.
Anyroadup, are you sure of the title?
Best
Dave
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Robin Hamilton" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 2:04 AM
Subject: Re: David B.
[Before I had a chance to send this, I discover that Rebecca put it much
more succinctly.
Oh well, I'll send it anyway.
R.]
dave:
>What I'm bugged about there is who sang a song with the line 'I've
> got a spell on you'. I know it was an American black woman soul or blues
> singer but can't remember who -
I think you may be thinking of Screaming Jay Hawkins and "I Put a Spell On
You".
SJH was a black male R&B singer, born in 1929, and the song was written in
1949.
Various singers covered it, so that may be why you're remembering a female
singer. Possibly the Nina Simone cover?
(1949) Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Slotkin
(Nina Simone version)
I put a spell on you
'Cause you're mine
You better stop the things you do
I ain't lyin'
No I ain't lyin'
You know I can't stand it
You're runnin' around
You know better daddy
I can't stand it cause you put me down
I put a spell on you
Because you're mine
You're mine
I love ya
I love you
I love you
I love you anyhow
And I don't care
if you don't want me
I'm yours right now
You hear me
I put a spell on you
Because you're mine
... I think that's the correct version, but it does sometimes seem to have
the line you remember, occasionally. Thusly:
Auteur : BB (193.251.9.xxx)
Sujet : Re : I've got a spell on you !!!
Date : 13/01/2003 15:51:37
Euh, pour info, c'est quand même Screaming Jay Hawkins l'auteur originel de
cette chanson et elle date de ... 1956!!!
Quant à l'appréciation, je préfère la douce folie furieuse d'Hawkins...
http://forum.quick-web.com/forum_lecture.php?r=9216&id=9219&login=pfasso&pag
e=1
Hope this helps.
<g>
Robin
(Cracked second time around -- it was the blues bit. Now, dave, if you'd
only mentioned that originally ...
<double g>
R2.)
<sigh> Being pathologically incapable of stopping while the going is good,
Creedence Clearwater Revival did a cover as the first track of their first
album, called -- surprise, surprise -- Creedence Clearwater Revival -- in
1968.
I put a spell on you
Because you're mine.
You better stop
The things that you're doing.
I said "Watch out!
I ain't lying, yeah!
I ain't gonna take none of your
Fooling around;
I ain't gonna take none of your
Putting me down;
I put a spell on you
Because you're mine.
All right!
Actually, the reason for the variation between the lyrics way be
this:
"Jay cut the original (ballad) version of "I Put a Spell on You," the first
disc to bear the artist credit Screamin' Jay Hawkins, for Grand Records in
1949. The single started in Philly and Trenton, spread to Baltimore, then
fizzled. While the dates are disputed (Jay claims it was 1952; label records
say it was September 1956), the magic didn't start until Jay's first Epic
(OKeh) session.
--Gene Sculatti, liner notes of the Screamin' J. Hawkins CD Cow Fingers and
Mosquito Pie "
I have an ecopy of CCR singing their version, but it's over 4 meg long. You
can get to it if you log-on to emusic.com. You can download fifty tracks (I
think it is) before they ask you to pay. But having been signed-up for six
months, I have to say that it's worth the $9 a month it costs to have
instant access to quite a range of online albums.
ENOUGH!!!!
Somebody else solve the elide between "I got a spell on you" and "I put a
spell on you", and the relation of Michael Jackson to the former version of
the words ...
CP3O.
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