• Percy Mayfield (August 12, 1920 – August 11, 1984) was an American rhythm and blues singer with a smooth vocal style. He was also a songwriter, known for...
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  • Hit the Road Jack (category Songs written by Percy Mayfield)
    "Hit the Road Jack" is a song written by the rhythm and blues singer Percy Mayfield and recorded by Ray Charles. The song was a US number 1 hit in 1961...
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    and roll, and recorded artists such as Little Richard, Guitar Slim, Percy Mayfield, and Lloyd Price. Rupe established the company under the name Juke Box...
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  • American meteorologist Percy Mayfield (1920–1984), American songwriter and singer Ross Mayfield, American businessman Scott Mayfield (born 1992), American...
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  • Brown) – 6:24 "We Don't See Eye to Eye" (Percy Mayfield) – 2:21 "You're In For a Big Surprise" (Percy Mayfield) – 3:35 "You're Just About to Lose Your...
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  • Please Send Me Someone to Love (category Songs written by Percy Mayfield)
    blues ballad, written and recorded by American blues and soul singer Percy Mayfield in 1950, for Art Rupe's Specialty Records. It was on the Billboard's...
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  • Burnett) - 5:19 "Hey Gyp" (Donovan Leitch) - 3:46 "Hit the Road, Jack" (Percy Mayfield) - 3:16 "Outcast" (Ernie Johnson, Edgar Campbell) (Album version) -...
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  • 5:22 "Sad Lady" (Cougar, George M. Green) – 3:26 "Hit the Road Jack" (Percy Mayfield) – 2:32 "I Need Somebody Baby" (Iggy Pop, James Williamson) – 3:43 "Man...
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    from a Stolen Spring. On the album she performed "Danger Zone" - a Percy Mayfield song made famous by Ray Charles. Lucky Town (1992) The Ghost of Tom...
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  • Because of Love" (Percy Mayfield) – 3:08 "Chitlins with Candied Yams" (Ray Charles) – 4:40 "Granny Wasn't Grinning That Day" (Percy Mayfield) – 2:08 "She's...
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    continued releasing singles as late as February 1954. Ray Charles, Percy Mayfield, Lowell Fulson, and other rhythm and blues and swing era artists of...
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    Universe" (Lennon–McCartney) and "Please Send Me Someone to Love" (Percy Mayfield). Sony released Apple's second album, When the Pawn..., in 1999, which...
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    Marching in the Street (Arista, 1975) Percy Mayfield, Weakness Is a Thing Called Man (RCA Victor, 1970) Percy Mayfield, Blues and Then Some (RCA Victor, 1971)...
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    cover version of "Please Send Me Someone to Love" (1950), originally by Percy Mayfield. Following an eight-year hiatus, the band released their fifth studio...
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    certified Gold by the BPI. In 1993, the band recorded a cover of the Percy Mayfield song, "Please Send Me Someone to Love", for the Academy Award-winning...
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  • Burnette) - 3:01 "Follow" (Jerry Merrick) - 6:48 "The Danger Zone" (Percy Mayfield) - 2:42 Susan Tedeschi - vocals Paul Bryan - bass Niki Haris - background...
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  • Somebody" by RIFF, Teen Dream, and Taja Sevelle "Hit the Road Jack" by Percy Mayfield On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating...
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  • which has issued recordings by artists including Paul Butterfield and Percy Mayfield. He continued to perform, both solo and in an ensemble, in the Bay area...
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  • Know" (Bonnie Owens, Buck Owens, Don Rich) – 2:54 "Watch It Baby" (Percy Mayfield) – 2:48 Ray Charles – piano, vocals The Jack Halloran Singers – backing...
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    Grrr (Mercury, 1966) Hugh Masekela, Home (Moonshine, 1982) Percy Mayfield, Sings Percy Mayfield (RCA Victor, 1970) Ullanda McCullough, Ullanda McCullough...
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  • bluesmen followed: the pianist and songwriter Amos Milburn, the singer Percy Mayfield (who would later become famous for the song "Hit the Road Jack"), and...
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  • covers and originals. Garrett's covers were written by Bobby Charles and Percy Mayfield. Garrett was presented with an Alberta Music Industry Award in 1994...
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  • Bremner of Rockpile (who was present in the studio at the time), and Percy Mayfield's "Memory Pain", suggested by White and featuring his bluesy lead guitar...
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  • Englishmen" Colin Allen, Harvey 3:34 5. "Things Are Getting Better" McGinnis 6:10 6. "Ode to John Law" Allen, Harvey 5:47 7. "Danger Zone" Percy Mayfield 6:21...
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    for the follow-up track "Hit the Road Jack", written by R&B singer Percy Mayfield. By late 1961, Charles had expanded his small road ensemble to a big...
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    relocate to Los Angeles where he became a sideman for John Lee Hooker, Percy Mayfield, Big Mama Thornton, Joe Tex, and many others. Between 1981 and 1984...
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  • Innocence". Despite this, "Hit the Road Jack", a song by R&B artist Percy Mayfield, was cleared for release on the soundtrack that, ultimately, never made...
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  • 6. "I Can't Stop Loving You" Don Gibson 4:48 7. "Hit the Road Jack" Percy Mayfield 5:29 8. "Talkin' 'bout You/I Got a Woman" Ray Charles 5:50 9. "Unchain...
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  • (originally by Roberta Flack) Ewan MacColl Jane Powell 4:23 10. "Hit the Road Jack" (originally by Screamin' Jay Hawkins) Percy Mayfield Buster Poindexter 3:18...
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  • 1. "Sage of Sidney Street" Aynsley Dunbar 5:00 2. "Memory of Pain" Percy Mayfield 6:08 3. "Mutiny" Aynsley Dunbar, John Moorshead 7:25 Total length: 18:33...
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