1969 Screamin' Jay Hawkins LP "What that is!"

US: Philips PHS-600-319

A 01	Screamin' Jay Hawkins	02:12	What that is (Jalacy Hawkins)	2-45291
A 02	Screamin' Jay Hawkins	03:25	Feast of the Mau Mau (Jalacy J. Hawkins)	2-45292
A 03	Screamin' Jay Hawkins	02:10	Do you really love me (Jalacy J. Hawkins)	2-45293
A 04	Screamin' Jay Hawkins	02:07	Stone crazy (Jalacy Hawkins)	2-45294
A 05	Screamin' Jay Hawkins	04:17	I love you (Jalacy Hawkins)	2-45295
A 06	Screamin' Jay Hawkins	04:30	Constipation blues (Jalacy J. Hawkins)	2-45296
B 01	Screamin' Jay Hawkins	02:28	I'm lonely (Jalacy Hawkins)	2-45297
B 02	Screamin' Jay Hawkins	02:35	Thing called woman (Jalacy Hawkins)	2-45298
B 03	Screamin' Jay Hawkins	03:08	Dig (Jalacy Hawkins)	2-45299
B 04	Screamin' Jay Hawkins	03:17	I'm your man (Jalacy Hawkins)	2-45300
B 05	Screamin' Jay Hawkins	03:03	Ask him (Jalacy Hawkins)	2-45301
B 06	Screamin' Jay Hawkins	02:15	Reprise (Jalacy Hawkins)	2-45302

Production: Milan Melvin
Recording: 1969.06.23-24 North Hollywood, Club Amigo. - Engineer: Hank Cicalo. - Second engineers: Mark Harmon, Russ Schmidt
Musicians: Mike Anthony (guitar, banjo), Graham Bond (piano A 04, B 01), Herb Ellis (guitar A 02, B 02, 05), Carl "Beef" Gottlieb (backing vocals A 03), Screamin' Jay Hawkins (vocals, piano), Eddie Hoh (drums A 04, B 01), Plas Johnson (saxophone), Ron Johnson (bass A 04, B 01), Deirdre LaPorte (backing vocals A 03), Théa Marcus (backing vocals A 03), Ernest McLean (banjo A 04, B 01), Earl Palmer (drums), Tom Reid (backing vocals A 03), Lyle Ritz (bass), Shorty Rogers (string arrangements B 01), Christopher "Egg" Ross (backing vocals A 03), Sal Valentino (backing vocals A 03), Billy Watkins Singers (backing vocals B 05)
Artwork: Greg Irons
Photography: Dunstan Pereira

Notes: Although the handwritten liner notes suggest this is a concert set ("This album was recorded at the Club Amigo in North Hollywood on June 23rd and 24th, Nineteen Hundred and Yesterday, and is dedicated to President Nixon...") it does in fact contain twelve new original studio tracks.

All issues

1969 Screamin' Jay Hawkins	LP WHAT THAT IS!	US promo: Philips PHS-600-319	white Philips promo labels
1969 Screamin' Jay Hawkins	LP WHAT THAT IS!	US: Philips PHS-600-319	black rainbow Philips labels
1969 Screamin' Jay Hawkins	LP WHAT THAT IS!	GB: Mercury SMCL-20178
1988 Screamin' Jay Hawkins	2LP FEAST OF THE MAU MAU	GB: Edsel DED 252 / Demon	packed together with the 1970 Screamin' Jay Hawkins LP BECAUSE IS IN YOUR MIND (ARMPITRUBBER) (US: Philips PHS-600-336)
1990.12 Screamin' Jay Hawkins	2CD SPELLBOUND! (1955-1974)	DE: Bear Family 15530 BH	album fully contained in this compilation
1995.12 Screamin' Jay Hawkins	CD WHAT THAT IS!	US: Verve-PolyGram CD 527490

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label photography (side A) of 1969 Screamin' Jay Hawkins LP WHAT THAT IS! (US: Philips PHS-600-319)
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