Percy Mayfield - For Collectors Only

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A1	Life Is Suicide (Take 1 - Master)
A2	The Hunt Is On (Take 1 - Alternate)
A3	Hopeless (Take 1 - Alternate)
A4	My Heart Is Crying (Take 1 - False Start-Studio Talk/Take 2 - Master)
A5	Baby You're Rich (Take 3 - Alternate)
A6	My Blues (Take 3 - Master)
A7	I Dare You, Baby (Take 1 - Alternate)
A8	Memory Pain (Take 2 - Alternate)
A9	You Are My Future (Take 3 - Previously Unissued)
B1	Get Way Back (Take 3 - Previously Unissued)
B2	Advice (For Men Only) (Take 1 - Previously Unissued)
B3	Lonesome Highway (Take 1 - Previously Unissued) Lyrics By, Music By – Jesse Mae Robinson*
B4	Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (Take 1 - Previously Unissued)
B5	Strange Things Happening (Take 2 - Alternate)
B6	Ruthie Mae (Take 3 - Previously Unissued)
B7	Please Send Me Someone To Love (Take 3 - Alternate)
B8	Hit The Road, Jack (Demo)

Companies, etc.

• Recorded At – Universal Recorders
• Mastered At – A&M Mastering Studios
• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Specialty Records Inc.
• Lacquer Cut At – Greg Lee Processing – L-33939

Credits

• Alto Saxophone – Joe "Jewell" Grant* (tracks: A2, A4, A5, A8, B1, B4, B5, )
• Art Direction, Design [Package] – Thomas E. Williams
• Artwork By [Photo Retouching] – Wilde Studios
• Backing Vocals – Donald Julian*, Earl Jones , Ronald Barrett
• Baritone Saxophone – Charles H. Waller (tracks: A1, A6, B3, B6, B8), Floyd Turnham (tracks: A4, A5), Maurice S. Simon (tracks: A3, A7, B7)
• Bass – William Hadnott* (tracks: A3, A7, B7), David S. Bryant* (tracks: B4), Ralph W. Hamilton* (tracks: A2, A4, A5, A8, B1, B2, B5, ), George "Red" Callender* (tracks: A1, A6, B3, B6, B8)
• Compiled By, Reissue Producer, Supervised By [Series], Research, Liner Notes – Billy Vera
• Drums – William V. Douglass* (tracks: B4), Jesse Sailes* (tracks: A2, A4, A5, A8, B1, B2, B5, ), Leonidas Raymond Young* (tracks: A1, A3, A6, A7, B3, B6 to B8)
• Guitar – Charles Eldridge Norris* (tracks: B4), Eugene Floyd Phillips* (tracks: A1, B6, B8), Harold Grant (tracks: A4, A5), Herman Burell Mitchell* (tracks: A3, A7, B7), Mitchell "Tiny" Webb* (tracks: A2, A6, B3), Ulysses Livingston (tracks: A8, B1), William Harvey Pyles* (tracks: B2, B5)
• Leader, Tenor Saxophone – Thomas Maxwell Davis* (tracks: A1 to A8, B1, B3, B4, B6 to B8 )
• Lyrics By, Music By – Percy Mayfield
• Mastered By – Bob Hata*
• Photography By [Original] – James Kriegsmann
• Piano – Edward Truman Beal* (tracks: A1, B6, B8), Fletcher Smith (tracks: B2, B5), Willard McDaniel (tracks: A3 to A8, B1, B3, B4)
• Producer [Original Sessions] – Art Rupe
• Saxophone – John Shelley Crawford* (tracks: A2, A3, A7, B7), Richard W. Wells* (tracks: A1, B6, B8)
• Tenor Saxophone – Hubert Myers* (tracks: A8, B1), Earl Sumner Jackson* (tracks: B2, B5), Jack McVea (tracks: A6, B3), James Jackson, Jr.* (tracks: B4)
• Transferred By – Gordon Skene
• Typography [Handlettering], Design [Production] – Eric Chan

Notes

Collection of alternate takes and previously unissued material

Recording dates:
A1: August 16, 1950
A2: January 22, 1952
A3: July 27, 1951
A4: October 16, 1954
A5: October 16, 1954
A6: November 21, 1950
A7: July 27, 1951
A8: January 29, 1953
B1: January 29, 1953
B2: April 23, 1953
B3: November 21, 1950
B4: March 31, 1952
B5: April 23, 1953
B6: August 16, 1950
B7: July 27, 1951
B8: August 16, 1950
B9: Date unknown

Credited for sessions not assigned to any album track:

October 23, 1950
Thomas Maxwell Davis – Leader, Tenor Sax
Jack McVea – Tenor Sax
Charles H. Waller – Baritone Sax
Lee Wesley Jones – Piano
Eugene Floyd "Gene" Philips – Guitar
George "Red" Callender – Bass
Lee Young – Drums

December 11, 1953
Thomas Maxwell Davis – Leader, Tenor Sax
Harold Maxwell Grant – Guitar
Ralph W. Hamilton – Bass
Gerald F. Wiggins – Piano
William B. Woodman, Jr. – Tenor Sax
Jesse Sailes – Drums
Jewell Grant – Alto Sax

March 23, 1954
Thomas Maxwell Davis – Leader, Tenor Sax
Jewell Grant – Alto Sax
William "Bumps" Myers – Tenor Sax
Floyd Turnham – Baritone Sax
Willard McDaniel – Piano
Herman Mitchell – Guitar
Ralph Hamilton – Bass
Jesse Sailes – Drums

Donald Julian, Ronald Barrett, Earl Jones listed as Maytones on label

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Matrix / Runout (Matrix, Side A): SP 7000-A L-33939
• Matrix / Runout (Matrix, Side B): SP 7000-B L-33939-X