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 "Two Years of Torture" to Supreme Records (a Los Angeles-area record label) because he thought it ...read more

Baby your rich The lover and the married woman Lonely for my baby Roll me baby My baby´s gone Advice for men only My heart is a prison Long tall sally Minden is a dry town Daddy wants you to come back home The things that i used to do Pink champagne Poet of the blues Percy mayfield sings percy mayfield Hide nor hair Time to make a change One room country shack Come home Gimme some lovin The proposal

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