Please Send Me Someone to Love
| "Please Send Me Someone to Love" | ||||
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| Single by Johnny Diesel and the Injectors | ||||
| from the album The Delinquents (soundtrack) | ||||
| Released | January 1990 | |||
| Format | 7 inch single, CD single, cassette single | |||
| Length | 4:17 | |||
| Label | Chrysalis Records | |||
| Producer(s) | Terry Manning | |||
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"Please Send Me Someone to Love" is a blues ballad, written and recorded by Percy Mayfield in 1950, for Art Rupe's Specialty Records. It was on the R&B chart for 27 weeks and reached the number one position; it was Mayfield's most successful song.
It has been called a "multilayered universal lament". Mayfield sang it in a soft ballad style. Its appeal lay in the sensitivity of its lyrics in juxtaposing an awareness of a world in conflict with a personal expression of the need for love. Sung in Mayfield's gentle, suave vocal style, the lyrics were a combination of a romantic love ballad and a social message against discrimination.
In 1989 the Australian ARIA award-winning rock band Johnny Diesel and the Injectors recorded the song for the soundtrack of the film The Delinquents. It was released as a single and peaked at number 11 on the Australian ARIA chart and was the 87th biggest-selling single in 1990.
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