| "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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"Someone Like You" is a song written by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison and recorded for his seventeenth studio album, Poetic Champions Compose (1987). It has become a wedding and film 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 Billboard Adult Contemporary chart in the US.[2] In 2019, it peaked at #1 on the Ireland radio airplay chart.[3]
- ^ Hage. The Words and Music of Van Morrison. p. 109
- ^ Van Morrison chart history at Billboard.com
- ^ "Someone Like You".