Please Send Me Someone to Love

~ Recording by Percy Mayfield

Appears on releases

#TitleLengthTrack ArtistRelease TitleRelease ArtistRelease Group TypeCountry/DateLabelCatalog#
Official
1.1Please Send Me Someone to Love2:50Percy MayfieldPlease Send Me Someone to Love / Strange Things HappeningPercy MayfieldSingle
Specialty Records375
1.1Please Send Me Someone to Love2:57Percy MayfieldPercy Mayfield: Poet of the BluesPercy MayfieldAlbum + Compilation
Specialty RecordsSPCD 7001-2
1.1Please Send Me Someone to Love2:57Percy MayfieldPercy Mayfield: Poet of the BluesPercy MayfieldAlbum + Compilation
Ace (UK, started in 1978)CDCHD 283
1.8Please Send Me Someone to Love2:55Percy MayfieldBlues Masters, Volume 3: Texas BluesVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • US1992-11-10
Rhino (reissue label)R2 71123
1.8Please Send Me Someone to Love2:55Percy MayfieldBlues Masters, Volume 3: Texas BluesVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Rhino (reissue label)R2 71123
1.5Please Send Me Someone to Love2:56Percy MayfieldThe Rock 'n' Roll Era: Roots of Rock IIVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Time–Life Music, Warner Special Products2RNR-43, OPCD-2627
2.5Please Send Me Someone to Love2:54Percy MayfieldThe Specialty StoryVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • US1994-03-25
Specialty Records5SPCD-4412-2
1.18Please Send Me Someone to Love2:53Percy Mayfield & OrchestraThe R&B Box: 30 Years of Rhythm & BluesVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Rhino (reissue label)R2 71806
2.3Please Send Me Someone To Love2:56Percy MayfieldMean Old World: The Blues from 1940 to 1994Various ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
MCA Special ProductsRD 110
2.5Please Send Me Someone to Love2:55Percy MayfieldLiving the Blues - Blues MastersVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Time–Life Music635/02
4.7Please Send Me Someone to Love2:54Percy MayfieldCentral Avenue SoundsVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • US1999-08-31
Rhino (reissue label)R2 75872
3.2Please Send Me Someone to Love2:55Percy MayfieldMartin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical JourneyVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • US2003-09-09
Hip‐O RecordsB0000393-02
3.2Please Send Me Someone to Love2:55Percy MayfieldMartin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical JourneyVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • -2003
Hip‐O RecordsCOL 512578 2
2.3Please Send Me Someone to Love2:54Percy MayfieldThe Roots of Rock ’n’ Roll 1946–1954Various ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • US2004-04-13
Hip‐O RecordsB0002252-02 CD01, B0002252-02 CD02, B0002252-02 CD03
1.17Please Send Me Someone to Love2:56Percy MayfieldMidnight BluesVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • US2004-08-03
Time-Life Records (Time-Life Music subsidiary)M18889
1.26Please Send Me Someone to Love2:54Percy MayfieldBlowing the Fuse: 28 R&B Classics That Rocked the Jukebox in 1950Various ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • DE2004-10-25
Bear Family RecordsBCD 16705 AS
1.1Please Send Me Someone to Love2:55Percy MayfieldLes Triomphes du rhythm'n'blues, Volume 8: chanteurs #1Various ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Haba’na
2.20Please Send Me Someone to Love2:55Percy MayfieldRoots of SoulVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • XE2009-06-01
Not Now MusicNOT2CD307
28.1Please Send Me Someone to Love2:54Percy MayfieldABC of the BluesVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • DE2010-09-24
Documents (German, Membran Entertainment Group)233168
17.1Please Send Me Someone to Love?:??Percy MayfieldBlues MastersVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
4π, EMI (EMI Records, since 1972)cd 1

Relationships

producer:Art Rupe
baritone saxophone:Charles H. Waller (on 1950-08-16)
double bass:Red Callender (on 1950-08-16)
drums (drum set):Lee Young (40s-60s US jazz drummer, then producer/A&R) (on 1950-08-16)
guitar:Gene Phillips (US jump blues guitarist & singer) (on 1950-08-16)
piano:Edward Truman Beal (on 1950-08-16)
tenor saxophone [tenor sax]:Maxwell Davis (1940s tenor sax and arranger "The Father of West Coast R&B") (on 1950-08-16)
Richard Wells (sax) (on 1950-08-16)
vocals:Percy Mayfield (on 1950-08-16)
recorded at:Universal Recorders in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States (on 1950-08-16)
part of:Blues Hall of Fame: Classic of Blues Recording Single (number: 1987) (order: 17)
recording of:Please Send Me Someone to Love (on 1950-08-16)

Related works

Please Send Me Someone to Love

lyricist and composer:Percy Mayfield (until 1950)
publisher:ATV Music
later translated versions:Zu vü Gfühl