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Here’s the WRFG Route 66 Playlist for Sunday, August 16, 2020
Host
John
Birthday
Percy Mayfield
August 12, 1920
Minden, Webster Parish, Louisiana
Song
Artist
Original Album or Single & Date
3-D
Big Jay McNeely
Federal Records 1953
Too Much Monkey Business
Chuck Berry
After School Session 1957
Elevator Boogie
Mabel Scott w/ Charles Brown
Exclusive Records 1948
Love Don’t Love Nobody
Kid Ramos
West Coast House Party 2000
I Can’t Wait
Roomful Of Blues
In A Roomful Of Blues 2020
You Ain’t Got It No More
Julia Lee & Her Boy Friends
Capitol Records 1949
Run Joe
Louis Jordan w/ The Calypso Boys
Decca Records 1947
Careful Love
Jimmy Liggins & His Drops of Joy
Specialty Records 1949
Swingin’ The Blues
Four Charms
Flatland Boogie 2000
Tomorrow May Never Come
Anthony Geraci & Dennis Brennan
Daydreams In Blues 2020
Wee Baby Blues
Big Joe Turner
The Boss of the Blues 1957
Baby You Don’t Know
Roy Milton & His Band
Specialty Records 1953
I’ll Send You
Goree Carter, His Guitar, & His Hepcats
Freedom Records 1949
Blow Illinois Blow Illinois
Jacquet & His All Stars
Aladdin Records 1947
She Winked Her Eye
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown
Peacock Records 1951
What’s He Building?
Tom Waits
Mule Variations 1999
8:00 a.m. Tribute to Percy Mayfield “The Poet of the Blues”
Leary Blues
Monroe Tucker & His Orchestra w/ Percy Mayfield
Superior Records 1947
Mayfield’s first recording
Please Send Me Someone To Love
Ruth Brown
Black Is Brown & Brown Is Beautiful 1969
Mayfield’s first and biggest hit, it spent 27 weeks on the
Billboard R&B charts, peaking at number one.
Strange Things Happening
Guitar Slim
ATCO Records Late 1950s (previously unreleased)
The song first appeared as the flip side of Mayfield’s
“Please Send Me Someone to Love.”
It was a major jukebox hit in it’s own right.
The Big Question
Percy Mayfield
Specialty Records 1953
Starting with “…Someone to Love,”
Mayfield had six hits in a row on the Billboard charts.
“The Big Question” was the last of those hits,
peaking at number 6 in 1953.
Lost Mind
The New Orleans C.A.C. Jazz Orchestra w/Johnny Adams
Mood Indigo 1996
Hit The Road Jack
Ray Charles
Live TV Concert (???) 1981
Ray Charles’s was the first artist to record “Hit the Road Jack.”
It became Charles’s sixth number one hit.
His version won the Grammy award for
Best Rhythm and Blues Recording in 1961.
Never No More
Frank Bey
All My Dues Are Paid 2020
River’s Invitation
Shemekia Copeland
Never Going Back 2009
Lost Love (Baby, Please)
Percy Mayfield
Specialty Records 1951
Mayfield’s follow-up to “…Someone to Love,”
his version peaked at number 2 on the Billboard charts.
The Danger Zone
Diane Schuur
Running On Faith 2020
To Live In The Past
Percy Mayfield
RCA Victor 1970
Percy Mayfield Resources
Biography @ wikipedia.org
Discography @discogs.com
Bio & Discog @ allmusic.com
“Hit The Road Jack” @ wikipedia.org
“Please Send Me Someone to Love” @ wikipedia.org
Strawberry Jam
Jimmy Nolen
Federal Records 1956
Diddley Daddy
Bo Diddley
Chess Records 1955
(sign off)
Tag (You’re It)
Little Charlie & The Nightcats
Nine Lives 2005
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