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
Recorded 1964
Length 2:40
Label EMI Columbia DB 7431,[1] Capitol
Writer(s) Tom Springfield[1]
Producer(s) Tom Springfield[1]
The Seekers singles chronology
"I'll Never Find Another You" "Chilly Winds"
"I'll Never Find Another You"
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
"Need You"
(1967)		 "I'll Never Find Another You"
(1967)		 "It's the Little Things"
(1967)

"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 in 1968 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

See also

References

  1. 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.
  2. ↑ "1960s Singles Chart Archive". everyHit.com. Retrieved 2014-04-05.
  3. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 218.
  4. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 172.
  5. ↑ "107.7 The End: Ben gibbard + Zooey Deschanel - I'll Never Find Another You". YouTube. 2010-11-04. Retrieved 2014-04-05.
  6. ↑ "Sounds of Australia // National Film and Sound Archive, Australia". Nfsa.gov.au. Retrieved 2014-04-05.
  7. ↑ 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


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