title: Please Send Me Someone to Love
text: # Please Send Me Someone to Love
  
  "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.
  
  ## Song background
  
  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.
  
  ## Track listing
  
  US 7"Vinyl
  
  * "Please Send Me Someone to Love" (2:50)
  * "Strange Things Happening" (2:49)
  
  ## Charts
  
  | Chart (1950) | Peak position |
  | - | - |
  | US Billboard Hot 100 | 26 |
  | US Hot R&B Sides (Billboard) | 1 |
  
  ## Johnny Diesel and the Injectors version
  
  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.
  
  ### Track listing
  
  * "Please Send Me Someone to Love" (4:17)
  * "Who's for Better" (3:40)
  * "Thang 1" (3:15)
  * Tracks 2 and 3 recorded live at the Hordern Pavilion, Sydney, Australia, August 16, 1989
  
  ## Other versions
  
  * Dinah Washington released a cover of the song in 1951.
  * The Moonglows had a hit with their cover version in 1957.
  * In 1967, Fred Neil covered the song for his album Sessions.
  * In 1968, Toni Williams covered the song. It was the B-side of his single "Sad, Lonely and Blue", released by Zodiac Records.
  * In 1969, Ruth Brown covered the song for her album Black Is Brown and Brown Is Beautiful.
  * Freddie King recorded his version during his years with Shelter Records.
  * Paul Butterfield covered the song on his 1973 album Paul Butterfield's Better Days
  * In 1977, The Animals covered the song on their reunion album, Before We Were So Rudely Interrupted.
  * James Booker covered the song on his album King Of New Orleans Keyboard. In 2003, Leigh Harris and Larry Sieberth covered it on the album Patchwork: A Tribute to James Booker.
  * In 1997, B.B. King and Mick Hucknall covered the song on the album Deuces Wild.
  * In 1993, Sade released a cover of the song for the soundtrack of the movie Philadelphia.
  * In 1994, Grover Washington Jr. recorded the song for his album All My Tomorrows.
  * In 1998, Fiona Apple released a cover of the song for the soundtrack of the movie Pleasantville.
  * In 2011, John Oates released a cover of the song for his solo album Mississippi Mile.
  