1965

I PUT A SPELL ON YOU * NINA SIMONE * PHILLIPS 1415 * UK

Recorded by Screaming Jay Hawkins in 1956 as a kind of blues ballad with a certain amount of humour, it had become, in this version a decade latter, a song of the up-most seriousness by Nina Simone.

See also:

Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood


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