Percy Mayfield - Specialty Profiles *

Artist:

Mayfield, Percy

UPC:

888072300569

See Also:

Cooke, Sam Waters, Muddy Cole, Nat "King" Turner, Big Joe Brown, James

Description:

Personnel: Percy Mayfield (vocals); Percy Mayfield; Joy Hamilton (vocals); Harold Leonard Grant, Mitchell "Tiny" Webb, Herman Mitchell, Harold Leonard Grant (guitar); John Crawford (saxophone); William B. Woodman Jr., William B. Woodman, Jr., Earl Sumner Jackson, Jack McVea, Hubert Myers, Thomas Maxwell Davis (tenor saxophone); Floyd Turnham (baritone saxophone); Gerald F. Wiggins, Fletcher Smith, Edward Truman Beal, Willard McDaniel (piano); Ralph Hamilton (bass instrument); Jesse Sailes (drums, drum); William V. Douglass, Lee Young (drums); Jewell L. Grant (saxophone, alto saxophone).
Audio Remasterer: Joe Tarantino.
Liner Note Author: Colin Escott.
Recording information: Universal Studios, Hollywood, CA (08/16/1950-03/23/1954).
Featuring the Poet of the Blues performing some of his best-known material, this compilation includes Percy Mayfield`s version of his own "Hit the Road Jack," eventually a massive hit for Ray Charles, as well as the brooding, macabre "The River`s Invitation," the erotically charged "Loose Lips," the regretful, yearning "What a Fool I Was," and Mayfield`s signature hit, "Please Send Me Someone to Love."

Track Listing:

DISC 1:

1. Please Send Me Someone to Love
2. Strange Things Happening
3. Lost Love (Baby, Please)
4. What a Fool I Was
5. Cry Baby
6. Prayin` for Your Return
7. Louisiana
8. Big Question, The
9. River`s Invitation, The
10. Loose Lips
11. Sugar Mama-Peachy Papa
12. Memory Pain (Memory of Pain)
13. Nightless Lover
14. Hit the Road, Jack

DISC 2:

1. R.M. Blues
2. Pink Champagne
3. Please Send Me Someone to Love
4. Lawdy Miss Clawdy
5. Dream Girl
6. Things That I Used to Do, The
7. Long Tall Sally
8. I`ll Come Running Back to You
9. Leavin` It All Up to You
10. Dizzy, Miss Lizzy

Album Information

Release Date:

08/29/2006

Type:

Performer

Genre:

Blues

Subgenre:

Piano

Label:

Specialty Records

Producer:

Cheryl Pawelski (Compilation); Colin Escott (Compilation)

Catalog Number:

30056

Original Release Year:

2006

# of Discs:

2

Studio/Live:

Studio

Mono/Stereo:

Stereo

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