An interview with the late Screamin' Jay Hawkins

On I Put a Spell on You: "I wasn't the only one there. If you notice, you hear me singing but there's a band there too, and every member of the band was drunk. And the man who was the A&R man, his name was Arnold Maxim for Columbia Records - he was drunk! And the engineer, who was mixing the sound and doing the mastering and the editing - he was drunk! Yes, because we had a record called I put a spell on you which was recorded previously for Grand Records, and it was a ballad, something like Johnny Ace or Roy Hamilton would sing..."