Someone_Like_You_(Van_Morrison_song)

Someone like You (Van Morrison song)

Someone like You (Van Morrison song)

1987 single by Van Morrison

"Someone Like You" is a song written by Northern Irish singer and songwriter Van Morrison and recorded on his seventeenth studio album, Poetic Champions Compose (1987). It has become a wedding and movie classic and the song subsequently furnished the framework for one of Morrison's most popular classics and love ballads, "Have I Told You Lately", released in 1989.[1]

Quick Facts Single by Van Morrison, from the album Poetic Champions Compose ...

In 1987, the single charted at number 28 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary in the U.S.[2] In 2019, it peaked at #1 on the Ireland radio airplay chart.[3]

Recording

"Someone Like You" was recorded in the summer of 1987 at Wool Hall Studios in Beckington, Somerset with Mick Glossop as engineer.[4]

Other releases

This song was released again on two of Morrison's compilation albums in 2007. A remastered version has been included in the album, Still on Top - The Greatest Hits and it is one of the songs on Van Morrison's 2007 compilation album, Van Morrison at the Movies - Soundtrack Hits.

Movies featuring "Someone Like You"

Personnel

Covers

"Someone Like You" is a popularly performed cover song, with the best-known versions by Dina Carroll,[5] Vanessa L. Williams,[6] Shawn Colvin[7] and John Waite.[8]

Notes

  1. [1]
    Hage. The Words and Music of Van Morrison. p. 109
  2. [2]
    Van Morrison chart history at Billboard.com
  3. [3]
    "Someone Like You".
  4. [4]
    Heylin, Can You Feel the Silence?, p. 525
  5. [5]
    "Dina Carroll: Someone Like You". allmusic.com. Retrieved 18 September 2009.
  6. [6]
    "Vanessa L. Williams, Next Album Review". Retrieved 13 September 2009.
  7. [7]
    "One Fine Day (Original Soundtrack)". allmusic.com. Retrieved 14 November 2009.
  8. [8]
    "allmusic (((John Waite - Songs - All Songs)))". allmusic.com. Retrieved 14 November 2009.

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