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SinglebyPercy Mayfield | ||||
from the album The Best of Percy Mayfield | ||||
B-side | "Strange Things Happening" | |||
Released | 1950 | |||
Recorded | August 16, 1950 Universal, Hollywood, California | |||
Genre | R&B, Blues ballad | |||
Length | 2:53 | |||
Label | Specialty Records | |||
Songwriter(s) | Percy Mayfield | |||
Producer(s) | Art Rupe | |||
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"Please Send Me Someone to Love" is a blues ballad, written and recorded by American blues and soul singer Percy Mayfield in 1950, for Art Rupe's Specialty Records. It was on the Billboard's R&B chart for 27 weeks and reached the number-one position for two weeks; it was Mayfield's most successful song.[1]
It has been called a "multilayered universal lament".[2] Mayfield sang it in a soft ballad style. Its appeal lay in the sensitivity of its lyrics in juxtaposing an awareness of a world in conflict with a personal expression of the need for love.[3] Sung in Mayfield's gentle, suave vocal style, the lyrics were a combination of a romantic love ballad and a social message against discrimination.[4]
US 7"Vinyl[5]
Chart (1950) | Peak position |
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USBillboard Hot 100[6] | 26 |
USHot R&B Sides (Billboard) | 1 |
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SinglebyJohnny Diesel and the Injectors | ||||
from the album The Delinquents (soundtrack) | ||||
B-side | "Who's for Better" (Live) | |||
Released | January 1990 | |||
Length | 4:17 | |||
Label | Chrysalis | |||
Songwriter(s) | Percy Mayfield | |||
Producer(s) | Terry Manning | |||
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In 1989, the Australian ARIA award-winning rock band Johnny Diesel and the Injectors recorded the song for the soundtrack of the film The Delinquents. It was released as a single and peaked at number 11 on the Australian ARIA chart[7] and was the 87th biggest-selling single in 1990.[8]
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