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Aug 12, 2011 · Explore Percy Mayfield's discography including top tracks, albums, and reviews. Learn all about Percy Mayfield on AllMusic.
Percy Mayfield has been widely described as "the poet laureate of the blues." Armed with a dry baritone, songwriter and singer Mayfield sang blues ballads that pondered worlds of trouble, melancholy, pain, and suicide. He was one of the most creative songwriters and performers of California blues.
Percy Mayfield. Profile: US R&B vocalist and composer (b. August 12, 1920, Minden, Louisiana, d. August 11, 1984, Los Angeles, CA) Though maybe mostly known for penning the classic "Hit the Road, Jack", Mayfield himself was a major performer for the Specialty label in the first half of the 50s delivering slow blues ballads with his smoky voice ...
Percy Mayfield was a popular recording artist in the early 1950s when he had a No. 1 R&B hit with “Please Send Me Someone to Love,” but after a disfiguring injury in an auto accident in 1952 he performed less often and focused his attention on the talent that brought him even greater acclaim – songwriting.
Aug 12, 2023 · Born August 12, 1920, Percy Mayfield was one of America's most popular rhythm and blues singers in the early 1950s. Here are three songs, and their contemporary covers, to remember the singer/songwriter on his birthday.
Best known now as the writer of 'Hit the Road Jack', Percy Mayfield had a big career as an R&B star before a horrific car crash left him with deep facial scars.
Oct 3, 2022 · Poet of the Blues · 1950. Black Coffee. Blues and Then Some · 1971. I Dare You, Baby. Poet of the Blues · 1950. Get Way Back. Poet of the Blues · 1970. Loose Lips. Poet of the Blues · 1950. Albums. Cry Baby. 2011. Three O'Clock In the Morning. 2010. Strange Things Happening - EP. 2006. Blue Me Away. 2004. Please Send Me Someone To Love. 1993.
