Screamin' Jay Hawkins sealed his infamy with 1956's “I Put a Spell On You”, a comically nightmarish blues ballad later performed by Nina Simone and CCR. The late singer's theatrical scenery-chewing only intensified from there, whether he was scatting (“Little Demon”) or sputtering (“Frenzy”). Hawkins' primal charisma helped to embolden the wilder side of rock ‘n' roll, and by the ‘90s, he was covering songs by popular artists he had influenced, including Tom Waits and Paul McCartney. But he didn't stop evolving: his 1995 original “I Am the Cool”, which name-checks Madonna, plays like a boast-laden rap track slowed to a moody crawl.