Vol. 2-Memory Pain (1992) ( )

Product Summary Label: Fantasy/specialty Records UPC: 00022211702726 Release Date: 2/11/2002 Buy.com Sku: 60008127 Item#: M4PTPM Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Please Send Me Someone To Love ~ Percy Mayfield 2. Strange Things Happening ~ Percy Mayfield 3. Two Hearts Are Greater Than One ~ Percy Mayfield 4. Big Question, The - (previously unreleased) ~ Percy Mayfield 5. My Blues ~ Percy Mayfield 6. Nightless Lover - (previously unreleased) ~ Percy Mayfield 7. How Deep Is The Well ~ Percy Mayfield 8. Ruthie Mae ~ Percy Mayfield 9. My Heart ~ Percy Mayfield 10. Lonesome Highway ~ Percy Mayfield 11. Lonely One, The ~ Percy Mayfield 12. I Ain't Gonna Cry No More - (previously unreleased) ~ Percy Mayfield 13. Memory Pain ~ Percy Mayfield 14. You Are My Future ~ Percy Mayfield 15. Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye ~ Percy Mayfield 16. Advice (For Men Only) - (previously unreleased) ~ Percy Mayfield 17. I Need Love So Bad ~ Percy Mayfield 18. Does Anyone Care For Me - (previously unreleased) ~ Percy Mayfield 19. It's Good To See You Baby - (previously unreleased) ~ Percy Mayfield 20. Sugar Mama-Peachy Papa ~ Percy Mayfield 21. You Were Lyin' To Me ~ Percy Mayfield 22. Voice Within, The ~ Percy Mayfield 23. Please Believe Me ~ Percy Mayfield 24. Diggin' The Moonglow ~ Percy Mayfield 25. Hit The Road, Jack ~ Percy Mayfield   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Personnel includes: Percy Mayfield (vocals). Recorded at Universal Recorders, Hollywood, California and Master Recorders Los Angeles, California between 1950 and 1957. Includes liner notes by Billy Vera, historic photographs and track annotations with personnel listings. Digitally remastered by Joe Tarantino (1992, Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, California). This is part of The Legends Of Specialty Series. Known as the "poet of the blues," Percy Mayfield was a songwriter nonpareil, who transmuted the sound of postwar R&B to suit his own purposes, scoring hits of his own and writing hits for others. MEMORY PAIN is a unique collection of the recordings Mayfield made for the Specialty label in the first half of the 1950s. It contains some of his signature tunes, such as the immortal "Please Send Me Someone To Love," as well as some of his lesser known (though equally great) compositions, and even his own recording of "Hit the Road Jack," which Ray Charles picked from the Mayfield songbag. Whether it's a stone-cold classic or some archival esoterica, though, every track here is given its own dose of magic via Mayfield's bluesy croon, idiosyncratic songwriting, and beautifully broken heart. Producer: Art Rupe   Artist Overview Often called the Poet of the Blues, Mayfield was as adept with urbane plaints as he was with rowdy R&B numbers. Perhaps more successful as a songwriter, he scored big in 1950 with the classically understated "Please Send Me Someone to Love." His legendary groover, "Hit the Road Jack," is one of Ray Charles's most famous songs ever and was the product of a mutually fruitful relationship during the '60s, as Charles released of number of Mayfield's own solo recordings on his Tangerine label. Mayfield performed into the '70s and '80s; however, life-long battles with the bottle led to a fatal 1984 heart-attack. Artist Influences Al Hibbler | Billy Eckstine | Champion Jack Dupree | Ivory Joe Hunter | Louis Jordan | Roy Brown | Wynonie Harris Artist Contemporaries Amos Milburn | Brook Benton | Charles Brown | Dinah Washington | Ike Turner | Jimmy Witherspoon | Johnny Ace (50's) | Larry Williams | Otis Blackwell | Ray Charles | Willie Dixon Artist Followers Aaron Neville | Al Green | Bob Dylan | Curtis Mayfield | Don Covay | Elvis Costello | Elvis Presley | James Carr | Joe Tex | Johnny Adams | Paul Butterfield | Tom Waits | Van Morrison   Compilation Appearances Vol. 2-All Time Classic Blues Creole Kings Of New Orleans Specialty Story Devil In A Blue Dress Central Avenue Sounds-Jazz In Very Best Of Kingfederal Deluxe Vol.1 Anthology Roots Of Rock 'n'roll Ham Hocks & Cornbread SWING TIME SHOUTERS 2 Specialty Profiles Specialty Profiles Respect:aretha's Influences And Inspi   Technical Info Release Date : 10/13/1992 Original Release Date : 1992 Catalog ID : 7027 Label : Specialty Records Number of Discs : 1 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Mono SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00022211702726    Product Image