LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JULY 18, 2019…TODAY THE MUSICIAN SCREAMIN’ JAY HAWKINS WOULD HAVE BEEN 90 YEARS OLD. SOME OF HAWKINS’ SONGS ARE KNOWN BECAUSE HIS MUSIC WAS COVERED BY OTHER ACTS ( THE MOST NOTABLE BEING CCR’S VERSION OF ‘I PUT A SPELL ON YOU’).
HAWKINS MAIN CLAIM TO FAME THOUGH WAS BY HIS OWN ADMISSION HE GAVE BIRTH TO OVER 57 OFFSPRING. NEAR THE END OF HIS LIFE HE UPPED THE FIGURE TO 75. A WEBSITE WAS PUT TOGETHER TO HELP DETERMINE IF HAWKINS WAS YOUR FATHER (JAYSKIDS.COM) WITH OVER 2,500 APPLICANTS CLAIMING THAT SCREAMIN’ JAY WAS THEIR DADDY.
THIS GUY IS 23ANDME’S WET DREAM !!! THE WORLD HAS NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE SCREAMIN’ JAY HAWKINS AS HE REMAINS LEGENDARY CHARACTER IN MUSIC AND PATERNITY CIRCLES.
CHECK OUT THIS PERFORMANCE FROM THE ARSENIO HALL SHOW FROM 1989
photo thanks–Stéphane Marion-au Festival National de Blues du Creusot
