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Please Send Me Someone to Love

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Please Send Me Someone to Love
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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]

Quick Facts Single by Percy Mayfield, from the album The Best of Percy Mayfield ...
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Song background

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]

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Track listing

US 7"Vinyl[6]

  1. "Please Send Me Someone to Love" (2:50)
  2. "Strange Things Happening" (2:49)

Charts

More information Chart (1950), Peak position ...

Johnny Diesel and the Injectors version

Quick Facts Single by Johnny Diesel and the Injectors, from the album The Delinquents (soundtrack) ...

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]

Track listing

  1. "Please Send Me Someone to Love" (4:17)
  2. "Who's for Better" (3:40)
  3. "Thang 1" (3:15)
  • Tracks 2 and 3 recorded live at the Hordern Pavilion, Sydney, Australia, August 16, 1989[10]
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