Please Send Me Someone to Love is a blues ballad written and performed by Percy Mayfield, released in 1950 for Specialty Records. Recorded on August 16, 1950 in Hollywood, it was issued as a single in September 1950 with B-side Strange Things Happening and later appeared on the album The Best of Percy Mayfield. The song blends a romantic plea for love with a social message against discrimination, delivered in Mayfield's soft, suave vocal style and is often described as a multilayered universal lament. It became Mayfield's biggest hit, staying on Billboard's R&B chart for 27 weeks and reaching number one for two weeks, while also charting on the Hot 100. The tune has been widely covered by artists such as Dinah Washington in 1951 and the Moonglows in 1957, and was reinterpreted by Johnny Diesel and the Injectors for The Delinquents soundtrack in 1990.
