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Percy Mayfield was one of the most admired and influential R&B singers and songwriters of the post-war era, with a smooth and polished vocal style, who would undoubtedly have enjoyed an even more illustrious career had it not been interrupted during the early 1950s by injuries sustained in a car accident from which he took a long while to recover. He is perhaps best-known for writing Ray Charles' hit "Hit The Road Jack", leading to Charles signing him to his Tangerine label towards the end of the period covered by this anthology. This great-value 54-track 2-CD set comprises just about all his A & B sides during the first era of his career, when he had all his Top 10 R&B hits, and recorded for a variety of labels - Gru-V-Tone, Supreme/Swing Time, Specialty, Chess, Cash, Imperial, 7 Arts and Tangerine. It features his R&B No. 1 "Please Send Me Someone to Love" and his other Top 10 hits "Strange Things Happening", "Lost Love", "What A Fool I Was", "Prayin' For Your Return", "Cry Baby" and "The Big Question". His style of delivery and his songwriting provided a template for many artists who followed in the soul era and this collection underlines his talents as both performer and writer.
Jack You Ain't Nowhere Pt. 1
Jack You Ain't Nowhere Pt. 2
Two Years of Torture
Get Way Back
Half Awake (Baby You're Still a Square)
Two Years of Torture
Leary Blues
How Wrong Can a Good Man Be
Please Send Me Someone to Love
Strange Things Happening
Lost Love
Life Is Suicide
Nightless Lover
What a Fool I Was
Prayin' for Your Return
My Blues
Hopeless
Cry Baby
The Big Question
Hunt Is on
Louisiana
Two Hearts Are Greater Than One
Lonesome Highway
My Heart
I Dare You Baby
The Rivers Invitation
The Lonely One
Lost Mind
How Deep Is the Well
The Bachelor Blues
Loose Lips
I Need Love So Bad
You Don't Exist No More
Sugar Mama, Peachy Papa
My Heart Is Crying
You Were Lying to Me
The Voice Within
Baby, You're Rich
Are You Out There
Double Dealing
Look the Whole World Over
The Bluest Blues
Diggin' the Moonglow
Please Believe Me
One Love
My Reward
My Heart Is a Prisoner
My Memories
When Did You Leave Heaven'
What Must I Do'
Say You Love Me
Ha Ha in the Daytime, Boo Hoo at Night
Never No More
I Reached for a Tear
