Someone like You (Van Morrison song)

"Someone Like You"
"Someone Like You"
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

"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 Billboard Adult Contemporary in the U.S.^[2] In 2019, it peaked at #1 on the Ireland radio airplay chart.^[3]

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, 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,^[5] Vanessa L. Williams,^[6] Shawn Colvin^[7] and John Waite.^[8]

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

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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[1] Hage. The Words and Music of Van Morrison. p. 109

[2] Van Morrison chart history at Billboard.com

[3] "Someone Like You".

[4] Heylin, Can You Feel the Silence?, p. 525

[5] "Dina Carroll: Someone Like You". allmusic.com. Retrieved 18 September 2009.

[6] "Vanessa L. Williams, Next Album Review". Retrieved 13 September 2009.

[7] "One Fine Day (Original Soundtrack)". allmusic.com. Retrieved 14 November 2009.

[8] "allmusic (((John Waite - Songs - All Songs)))". allmusic.com. Retrieved 14 November 2009.

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v t e Van Morrison singles
Discography
1960s	1967 "Brown Eyed Girl" "Ro Ro Rosey" "Spanish Rose"
1970s	1970 "Come Running" "Crazy Love" "Domino" 1971 "Blue Money" "Call Me Up in Dreamland" "Wild Night" 1972 "Tupelo Honey" "(Straight to Your Heart) Like a Cannonball" "Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in Heaven When You Smile)" "Redwood Tree" 1973 "Gypsy" "Warm Love" "Bein' Green" 1974 "Bulbs" "Caldonia" "Gloria" 1977 "The Eternal Kansas City" "Moondance" 1978 "Wavelength" 1979 "Bright Side of the Road" "Full Force Gale"
1980s	1980 "You Make Me Feel So Free" 1982 "Cleaning Windows" "Scandinavia" 1984 "Dweller on the Threshold" 1985 "Tore Down a la Rimbaud" 1986 "Ivory Tower" 1987 "Did Ye Get Healed?" "Someone like You" 1988 "Queen of the Slipstream "I'll Tell Me Ma 1989 "Have I Told You Lately" "Whenever God Shines His Light" "Orangefield"
1990s	1990 "Coney Island" "Gloria" "Real Real Gone" 1991 "Enlightenment" "I Can't Stop Loving You" "Why Must I Always Explain?" 1993 "Gloria" 1995 "Have I Told You Lately" "Days Like This" "Perfect Fit" 1996 "That's Life" 1997 "The Healing Game" "Rough God Goes Riding" 1999 "Precious Time" "Back on Top"
2000s	2002 "Hey Mr. DJ"

v t e Dina Carroll
Studio albums	So Close Only Human
Compilations	The Very Best of Dina Carroll
Singles	"It's Too Late" "Ain't No Man" "Special Kind of Love" "So Close" "This Time" "Express" "Don't Be a Stranger" "The Perfect Year" "Escaping" "Only Human" "Livin' for the Weekend" "One, Two, Three" "Without Love" "It's Only Rock 'n Roll" "Someone Like You"