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Percy Mayfield

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Percy Mayfield (12 August 1920 - 11 August 1984) was an American singer & songwriter famous for the songs "Hit the Road, Jack" and "Please Send Me Someone to Love".He was known as “Poet Laureate of the Blues”. Mayfield was born in Minden, Louisiana. As a youth, he showed a talent for poetry, so he thought he would try songwriting and singing. He began his performing career in Texas and had moved to Los Angeles by 1942. He auditioned his song

Top songs

  1. Louisiana
  2. Please Send Me Someone to Love
  3. Hit the Road Jack
  4. Loose Lips
  5. The River's Invitation
  6. Strange Things Happening
  7. Hopeless
  8. The Big Question
  9. What a Fool I Was
  10. Are You out There?
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  1. Life Is Suicide
  2. Cry Baby
  3. Lost Love
  4. Prayin' For Your Return
  5. Memory Pain
  6. You Don't Exist No More
  7. Lost Mind
  8. The Hunt Is On
  9. Nightless Lover
  10. The Voice Within
  11. Lost Love (Baby, Please)
  12. I Dare You, Baby
  13. Get Way Back
  14. Baby, You're Rich
  15. Nightmare
  16. Two Years of Torture
  17. Are You Out There
  18. The Rivers Invitation
  19. My Heart Is Cryin'
  20. Wasted Dream
  21. My Jug And I
  22. Please Send Me Someone To Love - Single Version
  23. Advice
  24. Bachelor Blues
  25. River's Invitation
  26. Sugar Mama-Peachy Mama
  27. Hit The Road, Jack
  28. I Need Love so Bad
  29. Advice (For Men Only)
  30. A Lying Woman (Not Trustworthy)
  31. Two Hearts Are Greater Than One
  32. My Blues
  33. Ha Ha in the Daytime
  34. Lonesome Highway
  35. The Bachelor Blues
  36. I Dare You Baby
  37. I Don't Want To Be President
  38. Gone Astray
  39. Live Today Like the Day Before
  40. Nothing Stays the Same Forever
  41. Painful Party
  42. The Country
  43. The Lonely One
  44. My Friend
  45. You Wear Your Hair Too Long
  46. Yes, You'll Play
  47. My Error
  48. To Live The Past
  49. Baby You're Still a Square
  50. Sugar Mama - Peachy Papa
  51. To Claim It's Love
  52. Louisiana (03-31-52)
  53. The Highway Is Like A Woman
  54. My Heart
  55. This Time You Suffer Too
  56. How Deep Is the Well
  57. Stranger in My Own Home Town
  58. Never Say Naw
  59. Hopeless (Aka Nappin' the Nickles)
  60. Please Believe Me
  61. Get Out And Come In
  62. How Wrong Can A Good Man Be
  63. Leary Blues
  64. P.M. Blues
  65. Cried Last Night / Baby Please
  66. Strange Thing Happening
  67. You Were Lyin' To Me
  68. Stranger in My Own Hometown
  69. Half Awoke
  70. Lost Love (aka Baby Come Back to Me)
  71. Three O' Clock In The Morning
  72. Don't Start Lying To Me
  73. Baby Please
  74. Diggin' The Moonglow
  75. Highway Is Like a Woman
  76. The Flirt
  77. Double Dealing
  78. Walking on a Tightrope
  79. It's Good To See You Baby
  80. Sugar Mama, Peachy Papa
  81. Ruthie Mae
  82. I Reached for a Tear
  83. Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
  84. Weakness Is a Thing Called Man
  85. I Ain't Gonna Cry No More
  86. Crying About My Baby
  87. Never No More
  88. Please Send Me Someone To Love (08-16-50)
  89. Sugar Mama-Peachy Papa
  90. The Voice Within'

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