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2 unusual facts about Screamin' Jay Hawkins


Corpse paint

The earliest rock groups to don makeup similar to corpse paint included Screamin' Jay Hawkins and Arthur Brown in the 1960s, Secos & Molhados, Alice Cooper and Kiss in the 1970s and, later that decade, punk rockers like The Misfits and singer David Vanian of The Damned.

Manifesto Records

Manifesto Records is the name of an independent record label based in Los Angeles, California that has released records by The Wedding Present, Dead Kennedys, Tom Waits, Tim Buckley, Lilys, Concrete Blonde, Screamin' Jay Hawkins and others.


All in One Voice

Songs on the album include “The Rose”, a cover of a pop standard made famous by Bette Midler, as well as “I Put a Spell on You”, a cover of the Screamin' Jay Hawkins song.

Beth Hart

Her next album, Screamin' for My Supper (Atlantic, 1999), featured "LA Song (Out of This Town),", a #1 hit in New Zealand and a top-5 Adult Contemporary Chart hit.

Devil's Nite

Detroit's largest rock radio station, WRIF 101.1 FM, had also gotten behind the band, having the band in for multiple radio interviews, and on-air talents Doug Podell and Screamin' Scott Randall often showing up at their concerts and offering to introduce them for their live performances.

Fender Vibroverb

Notable users of the ’63 Re-issue Vibroverb include Richard Thompson, Jeff Buckley, and the Screamin’ Armadillos frontman Matt Abney.

Gulcher Records

They have released music for acts such as John Cougar Mellencamp, The Gizmos, Kurt Vile, Dancing Cigarettes, Crawlspace, Magik Markers, Dow Jones and the Industrials, MX-80 (band), the Panics, Home Blitz, the Screamin' Mee-Mees, Hypocrite in a Hippy Crypt, and Handglops.

Model figure

Screamin' focused primarily on characters from more contemporary slasher movies like A Nightmare on Elm Street, Hellraiser and franchises like Star Wars and Mars Attacks.

Pleasant Gehman

In the 1980s, she was the singer for the punk rock band Screamin' Sirens, and later, The Ringling Sisters and Honk If Yer Horny.

Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton

In his review of the box set, music critic Richie Unterberger called it "Perhaps the most sumptuous, nay incredible, box set package ever devised for a blues artist."

Screamin' Demon

Anton Schwarzkopf and Intamin AG co-developed the first shuttle loop design, which opened as King Kobra at Kings Dominion in 1977.

Screaming eagle

Screamin' Eagle, a wooden roller coaster in Six Flags St. Louis

Sky Swat

The restraints consist of a side-lowering lap bar and partially over-the-shoulder restraints, a restraint system also found on other S&S's attractions, Screamin' Swing and Sky Sling rides.

Year of tha Boomerang

"It's dark now in Dachau and I'm screamin' from within/'Cause I'm still locked in tha doctrines of tha right/Enslaved by Dogma, ya talk about my birthright/Yet at every turn I'm runnin' into Hells gates/So I grip the cannon like Fanon and pass tha shells to my classmates"


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