Hit the Road Jack

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Written by: Percy Mayfield
Produced by: Sid Feller
Released: Sept. '61 on ABC-Paramount
Charts: 11 weeks
Top spot: No. 1

Charles asked Mayfield, a one-time R&B hitmaker whose performing career was curtailed by a disfiguring car accident in 1952, if he had any songs for Charles to record. Mayfield offered up "Hit the Road Jack." The snarling female vocal was provided by Margie Hendricks of the Raelets. Hendricks' affair with Charles produced a son in 1959; Charles fired her from the Raelets in 1964.

Appears on: Ultimate Hits Collection (Rhino)

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