"Someone Like You" is a popular, romantic ballad written by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison and recorded on his 1987 album, Poetic Champions Compose. It has become a wedding and movie classic and the song would subsequently furnish the framework for another of his most popular classics and love ballads, "Have I Told You Lately", that was released in 1989.
In 1987 the single charted at #28 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary in the U.S.
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Recording
"Someone Like You" was recorded in the summer of 1987 at Wool Hall Studios in Beckington,Somerset with Mick Glossop as engineer.
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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"
- 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 - drums, percussion
- Fiachra Trench - string arrangement
Covers
"Someone Like You" is a popularly performed cover song, with the best-known versions by Dina Carroll, Vanessa L. Williams, Shawn Colvin and John Waite.
Notes
References
- 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
External links
- Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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