"Please Send Me Someone to Love" | ||||
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Single by Percy Mayfield | ||||
from the album The Best of Percy Mayfield | ||||
B-side | "Strange Things Happening" | |||
Released | Sept. 1950 [1] | |||
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 | |||
Percy Mayfield singles chronology | ||||
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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. [2]
It has been called a "multilayered universal lament". [3] 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. [4] Sung in Mayfield's gentle, suave vocal style, the lyrics were a combination of a romantic love ballad and a social message against discrimination. [5]
US 7"Vinyl [6]
Chart (1950) | Peak position |
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US Billboard Hot 100 [7] | 26 |
US Hot R&B Sides (Billboard) | 1 |
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Single by Johnny 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 | |||
Johnny Diesel and the Injectors singles chronology | ||||
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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 [8] and was the 87th biggest-selling single in 1990. [9]