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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]
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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]
- "Please Send Me Someone to Love" (2:50)
- "Strange Things Happening" (2:49)
Charts
Johnny Diesel and the Injectors version
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
- "Please Send Me Someone to Love" (4:17)
- "Who's for Better" (3:40)
- "Thang 1" (3:15)
- Tracks 2 and 3 recorded live at the Hordern Pavilion, Sydney, Australia, August 16, 1989[10]
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Other versions
- Dinah Washington released a cover of the song in 1951.[11]
- The Moonglows had a hit with their cover version in 1957.[12]
- In 1967, Fred Neil covered the song for his album Sessions.[13]
- In 1968, Toni Williams covered the song. It was the B-side of his single "Sad, Lonely and Blue", released by Zodiac Records.[14]
- In 1969, Ruth Brown covered the song for her album Black Is Brown and Brown Is Beautiful.[15]
- Freddie King recorded his version during his years with Shelter Records.[16]
- In 1973, Mickey Newbury covered the song on his album Live at Montezuma Hall.[17]
- Paul Butterfield's Better Days covered the song on their 1973 album Paul Butterfield's Better Days[18]
- In 1977, The Animals covered the song on their reunion album, Before We Were So Rudely Interrupted.[19]
- James Booker covered the song on his album King Of New Orleans Keyboard. In 2003, Leigh Harris and Larry Sieberth covered it on the album Patchwork: A Tribute to James Booker.[20]
- In 1997, B.B. King and Mick Hucknall covered the song on the album Deuces Wild.[21]
- In 1993, Sade released a cover of the song for the soundtrack of the movie Philadelphia.[22]
- In 1994, Grover Washington Jr. recorded the song for his album All My Tomorrows.[23]
- In 1998, Fiona Apple released a cover of the song for the soundtrack of the movie Pleasantville.[24]
- In 2011, John Oates released a cover of the song for his solo album Mississippi Mile.[25]
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References
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