Covers and Samples
"I Put a Spell on You" has been covered very many times, perhaps most famously by Nina Simone in 1965, Alan Price in 1966, and Bette Midler in the 1993 movie Hocus Pocus. Other artists to record the song include:
- Arthur Brown
- Creedence Clearwater Revival (who also performed it at Woodstock)
- Bryan Ferry
- Bette Midler (from the film Hocus Pocus)
- Alan Price
- Nina Simone
Most of the covers treat the song seriously; few attempt to duplicate Hawkins's bravura performance. Arthur Brown comes close.
In 1967, the arrangement was used for Frank Sinatra's "The World We Knew (Over and Over)".
It has been sampled on tracks by The Notorious B.I.G. ("Kick in the Door"), The Beatnuts ("Se Acabo"), LL Cool J and The Heavy ("Sixteen"). Producers Cookin' Soul incorporated more elements of the original song plus a tempo change for a remix featuring Styles P of The LOX.
The song has been used as the exit music for the annual Halloween fireworks show HalloWishes at Walt Disney World in Florida. It can also be heard at the end of Halloween Screams at Disneyland and Disney's Nightmare in the Sky at Hong Kong Disneyland.
The title of the song was borrowed to name one of the quests in the role-playing game Fallout New Vegas, as one of the numerous references and allusions to the music of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s in that game.
The song also is an important motif in the classic 1984 independent film by Jim Jarmusch, Stranger than Paradise.
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