Someone like You (Van Morrison song)

"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"
Single by Van Morrison
from the album Poetic Champions Compose
A-side"Someone Like You"
B-side"Celtic Excavation"
ReleasedNovember 1987
RecordedSummer 1987,
StudioThe Wool Hall, Beckington
GenreSmooth Jazz
Length4:06
LabelMercury
Songwriter(s)Van Morrison
Producer(s)Van Morrison
Van Morrison singles chronology
"Did Ye Get Healed?"
(1987)		 "Someone Like You"
(1987)		 "Queen of the Slipstream"
(1988)

In 1987 the single charted at number 28 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary in the U.S.[2]

Recording

"Someone Like You" was recorded in the summer of 1987 at Wool Hall Studios in Beckington,Somerset with Mick Glossop as engineer.[3]

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,[4] Vanessa L. Williams,[5] Shawn Colvin[6] and John Waite.[7]

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

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
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