Cow Fingers & Mosquito Pie (1991)

About this title: Cow Fingers and Mosquito Pie is a magically weird 19-song collection of the bizarre shouter's mid-'50s OKeh/Epic output, when he was at the height of his strange and terrifying vocal powers. In addition to the prerequisite "I Put a Spell on You," and the surreal rockers "Yellow Coat," "Hong Kong," "Alligator Wine," and "Little Demon"; there's the amusing "There's Something Wrong With You"; a previously unissued "You Ain't Foolin' Me"; and a deranged takeoff on the cowboy ditty "Take Me Back to My Boots and Saddle." And what Screamin' Jay Hawkins does to the formerly stately "I Love Paris," ... read more

Tracks:

1. Little Demon [Hawkins/Nahan]
2. You Ain't Foolin' Me [Dickerson/Robinson]
3. I Put a Spell on You [Hawkins]
4. You Made Me Love You [McCarthy/Monaco]
5. Yellow Coat [Hawkins/Nahan]
6. Hong Kong [Hawkins/Nahan]
7. There's Something Wrong With You [Hawkins/Nahan]
8. I Love Paris [Porter]
9. Orange Colored Sky [DeLugg/Stein]
10. Alligator Wine [Leiber/Stoller]
11. Darling, Please Forgive Me [Hawkins/Nahan]
12. Take Me Back to My Boots and Saddle [Powell/Samuels/Whit]
13. Temptation [Brown/Freed]
14. Frenzy [Hess/Stevenson]
15. Person to Person [McRae/Singleton]
16. Little Demon [Alternate Take] [Hawkins/Nahan]
17. I Put a Spell on You [Alternate Take] [Hawkins]
18. There's Something Wrong With You [Alternate Take] [Hawkins/Nahan]
19. Alligator Wine [Alternate Take] [Leiber/Stoller]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.