Every Specialty single, both sides, from 1950-4, by the great, great Percy Mayfield. Percy Mayfield racked up a long string of hits during the `50s. Percy was a major performer for the Specialty label delivering slow Blues ballads with his smokey voice, which was reminiscent of Charles Brown. With the exception of Muddy Waters' wordman Willie Dixon, the eloquently sad Percy Mayfield was the Blues' greatest post-World War II songwriter and, unlike Dixon, he could sing. His biggest hit was "Please Send Me Someone to Love", an R&B standard covered by many singers since then.............
01 Louisiana 2:07 02 Nightless Lover 2:28 03 Baby, You’re Rich 2:21 04 My Blues 2:53 05 The Hunt Is On 2:15 06 Lonesome Highway 2:33 07 I Dare You Baby 2:18 08 Please Send Me Someone To Love 2:55 09 Lost Mind 2:43 10 Loose Lips 1:58 11 Bachelor Blues 2:50 12 Strange Things Happening 2:50 13 The River’s Invitation 2:53 14 How Deep Is The Well? 2:44 15 Sugar Mama – Peachy Papa 2:34 16 Hopeless 3:02 17 Cry Baby 2:51 18 Life Is Suicide 2:50 19 Prayin’ For Your Return 2:57 20 Lost Love 2:57 21 I Need Love So Bad 2:54 22 The Voice Within 2:32 23 The Big Question 2:52 24 You Were Lyin’ To Me 2:59 25 My Heart Is Crying 3:00 26 You Don’t Exist No More 2:48 27 Two Hearts Are Greater Than One 3:01 28 What A Fool I Was 2:48 29 The Lonely One 2:21
