I'll Never Find Another You
| "I'll Never Find Another You" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single by The Seekers | ||||
| B-side | "Open Up Them Pearly Gates" | |||
| Released | December 1964 | |||
| Format | 7" 45rpm | |||
| Length | 2:40 | |||
| Label | EMI Columbia DB 7431,[1] Capitol | |||
| Writer(s) | Tom Springfield[1] | |||
| Producer(s) | Tom Springfield[1] | |||
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| "I'll Never Find Another You" | ||||
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| Single by Sonny James | ||||
| from the album I'll Never Find Another You | ||||
| B-side | "Goodbye Maggie Goodbye" | |||
| Released | May 1967 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Label | Capitol | |||
| Writer(s) | Tom Springfield | |||
| Producer(s) | Kelso Herston | |||
| Sonny James singles chronology | ||||
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"I'll Never Find Another You" is a UK No. 1 single by The Seekers.[1] It was The Seekers' first UK-released single,[1] and was the second-best selling single of 1965 in the UK.[2] The song was also popular in the US, reaching peaks of No. 4 pop and No. 2 easy listening on the Billboard Hot 100 charts.[3]
The track was written and produced by Tom Springfield,[1] who was also responsible for most of the band's subsequent hits. The tune received a 1967 US revival as a country music No. 1 by Sonny James.[4] In 2006, it received yet another revival with a folk rock cover from guitarist Les Fradkin on his CD Jangleholic.
In 2010, the song was performed at a benefit for the homeless youth organization Teen Feed by Death Cab for Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard and his wife, singer/actress Zooey Deschanel.[5]
The song was added to the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia's Sounds of Australia registry in 2011.[6]
Filipino Superstar Nora Aunor also recorded covered an album of More, More, More of Nora Aunor
Chart performance
The Seekers
| Chart (1964-65) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| UK Singles Chart[7] | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 4 |
| U.S. Billboard Easy Listening | 2 |
| Australian singles chart | 1 |
| Ireland | 2 |
Sonny James
| Chart (1967) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 97 |
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Rice, Jo (1982). The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits (1st ed.). Enfield, Middlesex: Guinness Superlatives Ltd. p. 89. ISBN 0-85112-250-7.
- ↑ "1960s Singles Chart Archive". everyHit.com. Retrieved 2014-04-05.
- ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 218.
- ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 172.
- ↑ "107.7 The End: Ben gibbard + Zooey Deschanel - I'll Never Find Another You". YouTube. 2010-11-04. Retrieved 2014-04-05.
- ↑ "Sounds of Australia // National Film and Sound Archive, Australia". Nfsa.gov.au. Retrieved 2014-04-05.
- ↑ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 175. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
| Preceded by "Tired of Waiting for You" by The Kinks |
UK number one single 25 February 1965 (two weeks) |
Succeeded by "It's Not Unusual" by Tom Jones |
| Preceded by "Tonight Carmen" by Marty Robbins |
Billboard Hot Country Singles number-one single (Sonny James version) 5–26 August 1967 |
Succeeded by "Branded Man" by Merle Haggard |