"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]
| "Someone Like You" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Single by Van Morrison | ||||
| from the album Poetic Champions Compose | ||||
| B-side | "Celtic Excavation" | |||
| Released | November 1987 | |||
| Recorded | Summer 1987 | |||
| Studio | The Wool Hall, Beckington | |||
| Genre | Smooth jazz | |||
| Length | 4:06 | |||
| Label | Mercury | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Van Morrison | |||
| Producer(s) | Van Morrison | |||
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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 edit
"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 edit
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" edit
- Only the Lonely (1991)
- Prelude to a Kiss (1992)
- French Kiss (1995)
- One Fine Day (1996)
- Someone Like You (2001)
- Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
- American Sniper (2014)
Personnel edit
- Van Morrison - vocals, guitar
- Neil Drinkwater - piano
- Steve Pearce - bass guitar
- Roy Jones - drums, percussion
- Fiachra Trench - string arrangement
Covers edit
"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 edit
- ^ Hage. The Words and Music of Van Morrison. p. 109
- ^ Van Morrison chart history at Billboard.com
- ^ "Someone Like You".
- ^ Heylin, Can You Feel the Silence?, p. 525
- ^ "Dina Carroll: Someone Like You". allmusic.com. Retrieved 18 September 2009.
- ^ "Vanessa L. Williams, Next Album Review". Retrieved 13 September 2009.
- ^ "One Fine Day (Original Soundtrack)". allmusic.com. Retrieved 14 November 2009.
- ^ "allmusic (((John Waite - Songs - All Songs)))". allmusic.com. Retrieved 14 November 2009.
References edit
- Hage, Erik (2009). The Words and Music of Van Morrison, Praeger Publishers ISBN 978-0-313-35862-3
- Heylin, Clinton (2003). Can You Feel the Silence? Van Morrison: A New Biography, Chicago Review Press ISBN 1-55652-542-7