Percy Mayfield was one of the most admired and influential R&B singers and songwriters of the post-war era, with a smooth and polished vocal style, who would undoubtedly have enjoyed an even more illustrious career had it not been interrupted during the early 1950s by injuries sustained in a car accident from which he took a long while to recover.He is perhaps best-known for writing Ray Charles’ hit “Hit The Road Jack”, leading to Charles signing him to his Tangerine label towards the end of the period covered by this anthology.This great-value 54-track 2-CD set comprises just about all his A & B sides during the first era of his career, when he had all his Top 10 R&B hits, and recorded for a variety of labels - Gru-V-Tone, Supreme/Swing Time, Specialty, Chess, Cash, Imperial, 7 Arts and Tangerine.

• - 1 -

  • 1. Jack You Ain't Nowhere Pt. 1
  • 2. Jack You Ain't Nowhere Pt. 2
  • 3. Two Years of Torture
  • 4. Get Way Back
  • 5. Half Awake (Baby You're Still a Square)
  • 6. Two Years of Torture
  • 7. Leary Blues
  • 8. How Wrong Can a Good Man Be
  • 9. Please Send Me Someone To Love
  • 10. Strange Things Happening
  • 11. Lost Love
  • 12. Life is Suicide
  • 13. Nightless Lover
  • 14. What a Fool I Was
  • 15. Prayin' For Your Return
  • 16. My Blues
  • 17. Hopeless
  • 18. Cry Baby
  • 19. The Big Question
  • 20. Hunt is On
  • 21. Louisiana
  • 22. Two Hearts Are Greater Than One
  • 23. Lonesome Highway
  • 24. My Heart
  • 25. I Dare You Baby
  • 26. The Rivers Invitation

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  • 1. The Lonely One
  • 2. Lost Mind
  • 3. How Deep is the Well
  • 4. The Bachelor Blues
  • 5. Loose Lips
  • 6. I Need Love So Bad
  • 7. You Don't Exist No More
  • 8. Sugar Mama, Peachy Papa
  • 9. My Heart is Crying
  • 10. You Were Lying To Me
  • 11. The Voice Within
  • 12. Baby, You're Rich
  • 13. Are You Out There
  • 14. Double Dealing
  • 15. Look the Whole World Over
  • 16. The Bluest Blues
  • 17. Diggin' the Moonglow
  • 18. Please Believe Me
  • 19. One Love
  • 20. My Reward
  • 21. My Heart is a Prisoner
  • 22. My Memories
  • 23. When Did You Leave Heaven?
  • 24. What Must I Do?
  • 25. Say You Love Me
  • 26. Ha Ha In the Daytime, Boo Hoo At Night
  • 27. Never No More
  • 28. I Reached For a Tear