"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. In 1987, the single charted at number 28 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary in the U.S. In 2019, it peaked at #1 on the Ireland radio airplay chart. Recording "Someone Like You" was recorded in the summer of 1987 at Wool Hall Studios in Beckington, Somerset with Mick Glossop as engineer. 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, Vanessa L. Williams, Shawn Colvin and John Waite. Notes References Hage, Erik (2009). The Words and Music of Van Morrison, Praeger Publishers Heylin, Clinton (2003). Can You Feel the Silence? Van Morrison: A New Biography, Chicago Review Press 1987 singles Van Morrison songs Songs written by Van Morrison Song recordings produced by Van Morrison 1987 songs Mercury Records singles