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Percy Mayfield (12 Aug 1920 - 11 Aug 1984)

Male Person - United States

Releases (18)

Official

Album

  1. My Jug and I 1966
  2. Walking on a Tightrope 1969
  3. Percy Mayfield Sings Percy Mayfield 31 Jan 1970
  4. Weakness Is a Thing Called Man 1970
  5. Percy Mayfield, Vol. 2: Memory Pain 1992

Album - Compilation

  1. The Voice Within 1982
  2. Percy Mayfield: Poet of the Blues 1990
  3. Memory Pain - Vol. 2 1992
  4. Blues & Rhythm Series: The Chronological Percy Mayfield 1947-1951 2004
  5. His Tangerine and Atlantic Sides 2004
  6. The Chronological Percy Mayfield 1951–1954 2005
  7. Specialty Profiles 29 Aug 2006
  8. Lost Love: The Singles As & Bs - 1947-1962 2016

Album - Live

  1. Live 1992
  2. Live In San Francisco 2004

Single

  1. Please Send Me Someone to Love / Strange Things Happening Sep 1950
  2. Nightless Lover / What a Fool I Was 1951
  3. Louisiana / Hit the Road Jack 2012

Relationships (2)

Member Of

  1. Percy Mayfield & Orchestra

Support By

  1. The Meadowlarks

Recordings by (174)

  1. Please Send Me Someone To Love 2:55 (Sep 1950)
  2. Strange Things Happening 2:49 (Sep 1950)
  3. Nightless Lover 2:35 (1951)
  4. What a Fool I Was 2:45 (1951)
  5. My Jug and I 2:58 (1966)
  6. River’s Invitation 2:18 (1966)
  7. Baby Please 2:59 (1966)
  8. Stranger in My Own Home Town 2:38 (1966)
  9. Never Say Naw 2:52 (1966)
  10. The Hunt Is On 1:57 (1966)
  11. Memory Pain 2:24 (1966)
  12. I Reached For A Tear 2:25 (1966)
  13. Life Is Suicide 2:16 (1966)
  14. Maybe It’s Because of Love 3:20 (1966)
  15. Give Me Time to Explain 1:44 (1966)
  16. Fading Love 2:17 (1966)
  17. Double Dealing 2:21 (1966)
  18. Walking on a Tightrope 2:22 (1969)
  19. I Made It Just the Same 2:28 (1969)
  20. My Pain Is Here to Stay 2:45 (1969)
  21. Alma Lee 2:35 (1969)
  22. P.M. Blues 3:42 (1969)
  23. My Mind Is Trying to Leave Me 2:23 (1969)
  24. Danger Zone 2:36 (1969)
  25. 'Sho Gonna Leave You Alone 2:16 (1969)
  26. My Baby's Gone 3:21 (1969)
  27. To Me Your Name Is Love 3:03 (1969)
  28. Yes, You’ll Play 2:41 (31 Jan 1970)
  29. Live Today Like the Day Before 2:41 (31 Jan 1970)
  30. The Highway Is Like a Woman 3:00 (31 Jan 1970)
  31. Painful Party 2:59 (31 Jan 1970)
  32. You Wear Your Hair Too Long 2:56 (31 Jan 1970)
  33. To Live the Past 3:48 (31 Jan 1970)
  34. My Friend 2:59 (31 Jan 1970)
  35. A Lying Woman (Not Trustworthy) 3:01 (31 Jan 1970)
  36. To Claim It’s Love 3:45 (31 Jan 1970)
  37. My Error 2:32 (31 Jan 1970)
  38. The Country 2:27 (31 Jan 1970)
  39. This Time You Suffer Too 3:01 (31 Jan 1970)
  40. Weakness Is a Thing Called Man 2:41 (1970)
  41. California Blues 3:45 (1970)
  42. Lonely for My Baby 2:17 (1970)
  43. Hand in Hand With Another Man 2:50 (1970)
  44. Minden Is a Dry Town 3:10 (1970)
  45. Brotherhood Week 3:00 (1970)
  46. Stand Tall 2:40 (1970)
  47. I Hope You Get the Message 3:17 (1970)
  48. The Flirt 3:40 (1970)
  49. Getting You Off My Mind 3:06 (1970)
  50. I've Got a Secret 2:35 (1970)
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On Recordings (31)

Vocals

  1. Please Send Me Someone to Love 2:55 Percy Mayfield (Sep 1950)
  2. This Time You Suffer Too 3:01 Percy Mayfield (31 Jan 1970)
  3. The Country 2:27 Percy Mayfield (31 Jan 1970)
  4. Painful Party 2:59 Percy Mayfield (31 Jan 1970)
  5. My Friend 2:59 Percy Mayfield (31 Jan 1970)
  6. Yes, You’ll Play 2:41 Percy Mayfield (31 Jan 1970)
  7. A Lying Woman (Not Trustworthy) 3:01 Percy Mayfield (31 Jan 1970)
  8. The Highway Is Like a Woman 3:00 Percy Mayfield (31 Jan 1970)
  9. You Wear Your Hair Too Long 2:56 Percy Mayfield (31 Jan 1970)
  10. To Claim It’s Love 3:45 Percy Mayfield (31 Jan 1970)
  11. Live Today Like the Day Before 2:41 Percy Mayfield (31 Jan 1970)
  12. My Error 2:32 Percy Mayfield (31 Jan 1970)
  13. To Live the Past 3:48 Percy Mayfield (31 Jan 1970)
  14. I Dare You, Baby 2:18 Percy Mayfield (1982)
  15. The River’s Invitation 2:55 Percy Mayfield (1990)
  16. Bachelor Blues 2:51 Percy Mayfield (1990)
  17. Nightmare 2:25 Percy Mayfield (1990)
  18. Lost Love 2:58 Percy Mayfield (1990)
  19. Wasted Dream 3:07 Percy Mayfield (1990)
  20. The Big Question 2:52 Percy Mayfield (1990)
  21. Baby, You're Rich 2:21 Percy Mayfield (1990)
  22. Cry Baby 2:53 Percy Mayfield (1990)
  23. Louisiana 2:08 Percy Mayfield (1990)
  24. You Don't Exist No More 2:50 Percy Mayfield (1990)
  25. Get Way Back 2:41 Percy Mayfield (1990)
  26. Lost Mind 2:44 Percy Mayfield (1990)
  27. Advice (For Men Only) 2:27 Percy Mayfield (1990)
  28. Prayin' for Your Return 2:59 Percy Mayfield (1990)
  29. Loose Lips 1:59 Percy Mayfield (1990)
  30. My Heart Is Cryin' 2:58 Percy Mayfield (1990)
  31. Prayin’ for Your Return 2:57 Percy Mayfield (25 Mar 1994)

Credited as (8)

  1. Percy Mayfield
  2. Bobby Womack with Percy Mayfield
  3. Percy Mayfield With the Phillip Walker Blues Band
  4. Percy Mayfield, Phillip Walker Blues Band
  5. Percy Mayfield feat. Monroe Tucker & His Orchestra
  6. Bernstein, Goldings, Stewart Composed by Percy Mayfield
  7. Percy Mayfield with Monroe Tucker Band
  8. Margie Hendrix and Percy Mayfield

Works (54)

Wrote

  1. Hit the Road Jack
  2. Sad Girl
  3. Tell Me How Do You Feel
  4. Strange Things Happening
  5. All Alone and Blue
  6. My Baby Don't Dig Me
  7. At the Club
  8. But on the Other Hand
  9. Two Years of Torture
  10. I Dare You, Baby
  11. What a Fool I Was
  12. My Mind Is Trying to Leave Me
  13. The Highway Is Like a Woman
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Composed

  1. Hit the Road Jack
  2. Stick iväg Jack
  3. Danger Zone
  4. Hide nor Hair
  5. Lost Mind
  6. Maybe It’s Because of Love
  7. Never Say Naw
  8. Baby Please
  9. Something’s Wrong
  10. I Need Love So Bad
  11. Walking on a Tightrope
  12. Please Send Me Someone to Love ( - 1950)
  13. Give Me Time to Explain
  14. Fiche le camp, Jack
  15. We Don’t See Eye to Eye
  16. Memory Pain
  17. River’s Invitation
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Lyrics

  1. Walking on a Tightrope
  2. We Don’t See Eye to Eye
  3. Baby Please
  4. Maybe It’s Because of Love
  5. Never Say Naw
  6. Hit the Road Jack
  7. Danger Zone
  8. Give Me Time to Explain
  9. Hide nor Hair
  10. I Need Love So Bad
  11. My Jug and I
  12. Pretty Eyed Baby
  13. To Claim It’s Love
  14. Stranger in My Own Home Town
  15. Something’s Wrong
  16. Memory Pain
  17. Stick iväg Jack
  18. River’s Invitation
  19. Lost Mind
  20. Please Send Me Someone to Love ( - 1950)
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Links (17)

Other Databases

  1. https://d-nb.info/gnd/134622332
  2. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93019562
  3. https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n93019562/
  4. https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14007765x
  5. https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/108053
  6. https://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=85713
  7. https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/percy_mayfield
  8. http://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w64j1kdc

Lyrics Page

  1. http://muzikum.eu/en/122-7179/percy-mayfield/lyrics.html

Last.Fm

  1. https://www.last.fm/music/Percy%20Mayfield

Discogs

  1. https://www.discogs.com/artist/600555

Allmusic

  1. https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0000309328

Imdb

  1. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1923051/

VIAF ID

  1. http://viaf.org/viaf/54343913

Wikidata

  1. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q322600

Secondhandsongs

  1. https://secondhandsongs.com/artist/2392

Biographies

  1. https://tims.blackcat.nl/messages/percy_mayfield.htm