| Someone Like You | |
| Cover: | Van Morrison Someone Like You single cover.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Van Morrison |
| 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 |
| Producer: | Van Morrison |
| Prev Title: | Did Ye Get Healed? |
| Prev Year: | 1987 |
| Next Title: | Queen of the Slipstream |
| Next Year: | 1988 |
"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]
"Someone Like You" was recorded in the summer of 1987 at Wool Hall Studios in Beckington, Somerset with Mick Glossop as engineer.[4]
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.
"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]