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Details: EU-only two CD collection. Percy Mayfield is commonly described as 'The Poet Laureate of the Blues', by contemporary writers and historians and he enjoyed a string of hits on the Los Angeles based, Specialty label during the early '50s and then enjoyed a major renaissance as a songwriter in the '60s thanks to Ray Charles. This superb set features all of his greatest recordings and contains the original versions of such well-known classics as "Please Send Me Someone To Love", "Strange Things Happening" and "The River's Invitation". This is the most complete collection of Percy Mayfield's work yet released and is an absolute must for all blues and R&B fans.
Tracklist:
- Jack You Ain't Nowhere (Part 1)
- Jack You Ain't Nowhere (Part 2)
- Two Years of Torture (Gru-V-Tone Version)
- Woman Get Way Back
- Half Awoke (Baby You're Still a Square)
- Two Years of Torture (Supreme Version)
- How Wrong Can a Good Man Be
- Leary Blues
- Please Send Me Someone to Love
- Strange Things Happening
- Life Is Suicide
- Lost Love (Baby Please Come Back to Me)
- What a Fool I Was
- Nightless Lover
- Prayin' for Your Return
- My Blues
- Cry Baby
- Hopeless (Nappin' the Nickels)
- The Hunt Is on
- The Big Question
- Two Hearts Are Greater Than One
- Louisiana
- My Heart
- I Dare You Baby
- The River's Invitation
- The Lonely One
- Lost Mind
- How Deep Is the Well
- The Batchelor Blues
- I Need Love So Bad
- Loose Lips
- Sugar Mama Peachy Papa
- You Don't Exist No More
- You Were Lyin' to Me
- My Heart Is Cryin'
- Baby You're Rich
- The Voice Within
- Are You Out There?
- Double Dealing
- You Name It
- No.43 (My Story About a Woman)
- Look the Whole World Over
- The Bluest Blues
- Please Believe Me
- Diggin' the Moonglow
- 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
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