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- Date Released: August 29, 2006
- Genre: Blues
- Style: Soul/R&B
- Label: Fantasy / Specialty
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Percy Mayfield was blessed with an emotive Louisiana baritone and a poet's sensibility to sadness and pain, and few songwriters in the history of pop or R&B have written a body of work so drenched in beautiful suffering. This set features Mayfield's major hits for Art Rupe's Specialty Records, a label that Mayfield recorded for from 1950 until 1954 before leaving for Chess Records (the bonus disc included here is simply a sampler for other artists who recorded for Specialty). Given depth and atmosphere by Maxwell Davis' saxophone textures, songs like "Cry Baby" and "Please Send Me Someone to Love" were carefully written R&B symphonies to the harsh realities and downside of romance, and at times that downside morphed into relentless darkness, as is the case with the excessively maudlin "The River's Invitation," which is just this side of a melodic suicide note. Also here is the wonderful (and relatively upbeat) "Louisiana" as well as Mayfield's original version of his signature song, "Hit the Road Jack," which Ray Charles would cover and turn into a huge hit. In all, this makes a nice introduction to Mayfield's early work and spotlights his considerable skill as a songwriter. He fell in love with sadness, Mayfield said, because there was more truth in it.
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Please Send Me Someone to Love |
3:11 |
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| 02. | |
Strange Things Happening |
3:06 |
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| 03. | |
Lost Love (Baby, Please) |
3:13 |
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| 04. | |
What a Fool I Was |
3:03 |
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Cry Baby |
3:07 |
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| 06. | |
Prayin' For Your Return |
3:14 |
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Louisiana |
2:17 |
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| 08. | |
The Big Question |
3:07 |
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| 09. | |
The River's Invitation |
3:10 |
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| 10. | |
Loose Lips |
2:08 |
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| 11. | |
Sugar Mama - Peachy Papa |
2:49 |
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| 12. | |
Memory Pain (aka Memory of Pain) |
2:47 |
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| 13. | |
Nightless Lover |
2:42 |
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| 14. | |
Hit the Road, Jack |
1:39 |
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14 Total Tracks, 39:33 Total Length
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Credits
- Percy Mayfield - Vocals // Jack McVea - Sax (Tenor) // Edward Truman Beal - Piano // Bill Belmont - Project Assistant // Red Callender - Bass // John Crawford - Saxophone // Thomas Maxwell Davis - Leader // Thomas Maxwell Davis - Sax (Tenor) // William V. Douglass - Drums // Colin Escott - Liner Notes // Colin Escott - Compilation Producer // Harold Leonard Grant - Guitar // Jewell L. Grant - Saxophone // Jewell L. Grant - Sax (Alto) // William K. "Billy" Hadnott - Bass // Joy Hamilton - Vocals // Ralph Hamilton - Bass // Earl Sumner Jackson - Sax (Tenor) // Willard McDaniel - Piano // Hubert Myers - Sax (Tenor) // Cheryl Pawelski - Compilation Producer // Art Rupe - Original Session Producer // Jesse Sailes - Drums // Theodore Shirley - Bass // Fletcher Smith - Piano // Floyd Turnham - Sax (Baritone) // Mitchell "Tiny" Webb - Guitar // William B. Woodman, Jr. - Sax (Tenor) // Lee Young - Drums // Joe Tarantino - Mastering // Joe Tarantino - Remastering // Jamie Putnam - Art Direction // Abbey Anna - Project Assistant // Terri Hinte - Project Assistant // Rikka Arnold - Project Assistant // Stuart Kremsky - Project Assistant // Herman Mitchell - Guitar // Chris Clough - Project Assistant // Jesse & Marvin - Performer // Gerald F. Wiggins - Piano // William B. Woodman Jr. - Sax (Tenor) // Harold Leonard Grant - Guitar
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