Natacha Atlas Songs - I Put a Spell on You, Ne Me Quitte Pas, It's a Man's Man's Man's World, Leysh Nat' Arak, Dub Yalil, One Brief Moment (Paperback)

Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Chapters: I Put a Spell on You, Ne me quitte pas, It's a Man's Man's Man's World, Leysh Nat' Arak, Dub Yalil, One Brief Moment, Amulet, Yalla Chant, L'Egyptienne, Le Gout Du Pain, Mon Amie La Rose, Quand Je Ferme les Yeux, Duden, Mistaneek, Bastet, . Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 59. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: "I Put a Spell on You" is a 1956 song written by Screamin' Jay Hawkins, whose recording was selected as one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. It was also ranked #313 on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Although Hawkins' version did not make any charts, several later cover versions have done so. Nina Simone's version reached # 23 in the US Billboard R&B chart in 1965; it also reached # 49 in the UK singles chart that year, and # 28 when it was reissued in 1969. The version by The Alan Price Set reached # 9 in the UK in 1966, and # 80 on the Billboard Hot 100. Creedence Clearwater Revival's version reached # 58 on the US Hot 100 in 1968. In the UK, Bryan Ferry's version reached # 18 in 1993, and the version by Sonique reached # 36 in 1998 and # 5 on reissue in 2000. The song has been recorded by numerous other artists. Hawkins had originally intended to record "I Put a Spell on You" as a refined love song, a blues ballad. He reported, however, that the producer "brought in ribs and chicken and got everybody drunk, and we came out with this weird version. I don't even remember making the record. Before, I was just a normal blues singer. I was just Jay Hawkins. It all sort of just fell in place. I found out I could do more destroying a song and screaming it to death." Some sources claim that "I Put a Spell on You" had been released earlier than 1956 in a m...http: //booksllc.net/?id=365527