"Please Send Me Someone to Love"
Single byPercy Mayfield
from the album The Best of Percy Mayfield
B-side	"Strange Things Happening"
Released	Sept.1950[1]
Recorded	August 16, 1950 Universal, Hollywood, California
Genre	R&B,blues ballad
Length	2:53
Label	Specialty Records
Songwriter	Percy Mayfield
Producer	Art Rupe
Percy Mayfield singles chronology
"Please Send Me Someone to Love" (1950) "Lost Love (Baby, Please Come Back to Me)" (1951)

"Please Send Me Someone to Love" is ablues ballad, written and recorded by American blues and soul singerPercy Mayfield in 1950, forArt Rupe'sSpecialty Records. It was on the Billboard'sR&Bchart for 27 weeks and reached the number-one position for two weeks; it was Mayfield's most successful song.^[2]

It has been called a "multilayered universal lament".^[3]Mayfield sang it in a softballad 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.^[4]Sung in Mayfield's gentle, suave vocal style, the lyrics were a combination of a romanticlove ballad and a social message againstdiscrimination.^[5]

US 7"Vinyl^[6]

1. "Please Send Me Someone to Love" (2:50)
2. "Strange Things Happening" (2:49)

"Please Send Me Someone to Love"
Single byJohnny Diesel and the Injectors
from the albumThe Delinquents(soundtrack)
B-side	"Who's for Better" (Live)
Released	January 1990
Length	4:17
Label	Chrysalis
Songwriter	Percy Mayfield
Producer	Terry Manning
Johnny Diesel and the Injectors singles chronology
"Since I Fell for You" (1989) "Please Send Me Someone to Love" (1990) "Love Junk" (1991)

In 1989, the AustralianARIA award-winning rock bandJohnny Diesel and the Injectors recorded the song for the soundtrack of the filmThe Delinquents. It was released as a single and peaked at number 11 on the AustralianARIA chart^[8] and was the 87th biggest-selling single in 1990.^[9]

1. "Please Send Me Someone to Love" (4:17)
2. "Who's for Better" (3:40)
3. "Thang 1" (3:15)

• Tracks 2 and 3 recorded live at the Hordern Pavilion, Sydney, Australia, August 16, 1989^[10]

• Dinah Washington released a cover of the song in 1951.^[11]
• The Moonglows had a hit with their cover version in 1957.^[12]
• In 1967,Fred Neil covered the song for his albumSessions.^[13]
• In 1968,Toni Williams covered the song. It was the B-side of his single "Sad, Lonely and Blue", released byZodiac Records.^[14]
• In 1969,Ruth Brown covered the song for her albumBlack Is Brown and Brown Is Beautiful.^[15]
• Freddie King recorded his version during his years withShelter Records.^[16]
• In 1973,Mickey Newbury covered the song on his albumLive at Montezuma Hall.^[17]
• Paul Butterfield's Better Days covered the song on their 1973 albumPaul Butterfield's Better Days^[18]
• In 1977,The Animals covered the song on their reunion album,Before We Were So Rudely Interrupted.^[19]
• James Booker covered the song on his albumKing Of New Orleans Keyboard. In 2003, Leigh Harris and Larry Sieberth covered it on the albumPatchwork: A Tribute to James Booker.^[20]
• In 1997,B.B. King andMick Hucknall covered the song on the albumDeuces Wild.^[21]
• In 1993,Sade released a cover of the song for thesoundtrack of the moviePhiladelphia.^[22]
• In 1994,Grover Washington Jr. recorded the song for his albumAll My Tomorrows.^[23]
• In 1998,Fiona Apple released a cover of the song for thesoundtrack of the moviePleasantville.^[24]
• In 2011,John Oates released a cover of the song for his solo albumMississippi Mile.^[25]

• 1950 singles
• 1990 singles
• Diesel (musician) songs
• Grammy Hall of Fame Award recipients
• Songs written by Percy Mayfield
• 1950 songs
• Chrysalis Records singles
• 1950s ballads

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