Someone like You (Van Morrison song)
"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 | |||
Van Morrison singles chronology | ||||
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"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]
In 1987, the single charted at number 28 on the
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, Van Morrison at the Movies - Soundtrack Hits.
Movies featuring "Someone Like You"
- 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
- Van Morrison - vocals, guitar
- Neil Drinkwater - piano
- Steve Pearce - bass guitar
- Roy Jones - percussion
- Fiachra Trench - string arrangement
Covers
"Someone Like You" is a popularly performed cover song, with the best-known versions by
Notes
- ^ 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
- ISBN 978-0-313-35862-3
- ISBN 1-55652-542-7