SOMEONE LIKE YOU
“Someone Like You” is a popular, romantic ballad written by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison and recorded on his 1987 album, Poetic Champions Compose. It has become a wedding and movie classic, and the song would subsequently furnish the framework for another of his most popular classics and love ballads, “Have I Told You Lately”, that was released in 1989. In 1987 the single charted at #28 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary in the U.S. (More from Wikipedia)
French Kiss (movie soundtrack) – The soundtrack for French Kiss, the Meg Ryan/Kevin Klein vehicle from 1995 has a lot of the sort of Paris-themed music that one expects from Hollywood (including two different treatments of Cole Porter’s “I Love Paris”, no less). The album starts off with a bang – “Someone like You” by Van Morrison and a lovely rendition of the Edith Piaf classic “La Vie en Rose” by Louis Armstrong – but the album has too much score and not enough songs for my taste.
(December 2015)
