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2	[[caption-width-right:283:"Y'all know smoking is bad for you, right?"]]
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4	[[RAndB Rhythm And Blues]] musician (1929-2000), noted for his macabre humor and his rather spectacular live shows that included elaborate props and elements of StandupComedy.
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6	"I Put a Spell on You" is probably his best-known song, and has become a stable covered by many future rock musicians.
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8	Hawkins passed away in France on February 12, 2000, at 70 years of age, after emergency surgery from an aneurysm. Infamously, after his death, Hawkins biographer Maral Nigolian put up a (now defunct) website called Jay's Kids, in order to find his dozens of illegitimate children.
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11	!!"I Put A Trope On You":
12	* CarefulWithThatAxe: How he got his nickname. It tends to be [[TheImmodestOrgasm rather suggestive]].
13	* DrunkenMaster:
14	** He did almost all of his live shows drunk, because they opened with him bursting out of a coffin; he was too claustrophobic to get in the coffin sober.
15	** His version of "I Put a Spell on You" became the spectacle it was because he and all the other members of the band were plastered when they first recorded it.
16	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Early singles like "Not Anymore" are straight-faced, approachable blues, sung in a higher register, that give little indication of the maniac Hawkins would eventually become.
17	* ForeignQueasine: "The Feast of the Mau Mau."
18	* LongDistanceRelationship: "Person to Person" warns against this.
19	* LovePotion: "Alligator Wine".
20	* HalloweenSongs: His best known song "I Put a Spell on You" is a classic Halloween song that was later featured in the Disney movie ''Film/HocusPocus'' where it was sang by three literal witches.
21	* HollywoodVoodoo: Frequently featured.
22	* ImpossiblyTackyClothes: The titular outfit in "Yellow Coat" is [[SuckinessIsPainful so ugly]] it [[EmpathicEnvironment changes the weather]] and attracts ugly animals.
23	* MetalScream: Definitely one of the earliest examples of this.
24	* NobodyPoops: {{Discussed\|Trope}} in the spoken-word opening of "Constipation Blues":
25	-->Ladies and gentlemen, most people record songs about love, heartbreak, loneliness, being broke. Nobody's actually gone out and recorded a song about ''real pain''.
26	* ObsessionSong: "I Put a Spell on You".
27	* SanitySlippageSong: "I Hear Voices" and "I Put a Spell on You".
28	* ScaryBlackMan: A major component of his onstage "creepy HollywoodVoodoo priest" persona. He faced criticism from the NAACP for it, saying he was promoting a negative stereotype of Black people. (Which Hawkins credited as giving the song a sales boost.)
29	* ShockRock: UrExample, if not the TropeMaker outright. Hawkins started his shows by coming out of a coffin, he had a bone stuck in his nose, he shrieked and grunted his way through his songs like he was possessed, and he carried around a smoking skull. This level of theatricality was unheard of in the late 50s, and gave him a reputation as a great live performer. Such luminaries as Screaming Lord Sutch, Music/AliceCooper, Music/BlackSabbath and Music/ArthurBrown were clearly inspired by Hawkins, and consider how influential ''they'' are.
30	* SomethingBlues: "Constipation Blues".
31	* ToiletHumor: "Constipation Blues".
32	* WhatDidIDoLastNight: The song, "I Put a Spell on You" was originally supposed to be a SillyLoveSong, until at some point the entire band and all the technicians got blackout drunk and recorded the song complete with Hawkins's profane shouting and growling. Hawkins had no memory of the night, but discovered his purpose after listening to the recording the next morning.
33	* WordSaladLyrics: Part of Hawkins's signature vocal style was fits of rapping in gibberish in order to represent voodoo tongues or heightened emotion.

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