| Someone Like You | |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Emmylou Harris |
| B-Side: | "Light of the Stable" |
| Studio: | Enactron Truck Studios |
| Genre: | Country[1] |
| Length: | 3:14 |
| Label: | Warner Bros. |
| Producer: | Brian Ahern |
| Prev Title: | Pledging My Love |
| Prev Year: | 1984 |
| Next Title: | White Line |
| Next Year: | 1985 |
"Drivin' Wheel" is a song written by Dickey Lee and Bob McDill, and recorded by American singer Emmylou Harris. It was released in October 1984 as the lead single from Harris' compilation album . It reached positions on the US and Canadian country charts following its release.
With a country rock formula built off the work of Gram Parsons, Emmylou Harris forged her how musical career in the 1970s and 1980s. Not only critically acclaimed, her recordings were also commercially successful. Harris had a string of top ten and chart topping country singles during this period including "Together Again" (1976), "Beneath Still Waters" (1980) and "Lost His Love (On Our Last Date)" (1982).[2] A compilation album issued by Warner Bros. Records was released in 1984 titled . One song never before released was "Someone Like You". Written by Dickey Lee and Bob McDill, the song was actually recorded six years prior in November 1978. The session was produced by Brian Ahern at Enactron Truck Studios in Los Angeles, California.[3]
"Someone Like You" served as the lead single and only single off Profile II: The Best of Emmylou Harris. It was issued by Warner Bros. Records in October 1984. It was backed on the B-side by the song "Light of the Stable". The single was distributed as a seven-inch vinyl single.[3] "Drivin' Wheel" debuted on the US Billboard Hot Country Songs chart in November 1984. It spent 18 weeks there, reaching the number 26 position in January 1984.[4] The song reached the top 20 of the Canadian RPM Country Tracks chart, reaching the number 14 position around the same period.[5] "Someone Like You" was reviewed by Billboard magazine and was named one of their "country picks". "the sweetest voice in the Western world discourses on the inevitability of true lovers finding each other," the publication wrote.[6]
. Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. 2008. 0-89820-177-2. Joel Whitburn.