| "Please Send Me Someone to Love" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | ||||
| Single by Percy Mayfield | ||||
| from the album The Best of Percy Mayfield | ||||
| B-side | "Strange Things Happening" | |||
| Released | 1950 | |||
| Recorded | August 16, 1950 Universal, Hollywood, California | |||
| Genre | R&B, Blues ballad | |||
| Length | 2:53 | |||
| Label | Specialty Records | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Percy Mayfield | |||
| Producer(s) | Art Rupe | |||
| Percy Mayfield singles chronology | ||||
| ||||
"Please Send Me Someone to Love" is a 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 R&B chart for 27 weeks and reached the number-one position for two weeks; it was Mayfield's most successful song.[1]
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942–2004. Record Research. p. 385.