Someone like You (Emmylou Harris song)
{{Infobox song
| name = Someone Like You
| cover =
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = Emmylou Harris
| album = Profile II: The Best of Emmylou Harris
| B-side = "Light of the Stable"
| released = {{Start date|1984|10}}
| recorded = {{Start date|1978|11}}
| studio = Enactron Truck Studios
| genre = Country{{cite web |title="Someone Like You": Emmylou Harris: Track Info |url=https://www.allmusic.com/song/someone-like-you-mt0046398651 |website=AllMusic |access-date=13 August 2023}}
| length = 3:14
| label = Warner Bros.
| writer = {{hlist|Dickey Lee|Bob McDill}}
| producer = Brian Ahern
| prev_title = Pledging My Love
| prev_year = 1984
| next_title = White Line
| next_year = 1985
}}
"Drivin' Wheel" is a song written by Dickey Lee and Bob McDill, and recorded by American singer Emmylou Harris. It was released in October 1984 as the lead single from Harris' compilation album Profile II: The Best of Emmylou Harris. It reached positions on the US and Canadian country charts following its release.
Background and recording
With a country rock formula built off the work of Gram Parsons, Emmylou Harris forged her how musical career in the 1970s and 1980s. Not only critically acclaimed, her recordings were also commercially successful. Harris had a string of top ten and chart topping country singles during this period including "Together Again" (1976), "Beneath Still Waters" (1980) and "Lost His Love (On Our Last Date)" (1982).{{cite web |last1=Ankeny |first1=Jason |title=Emmylou Harris Biography |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/emmylou-harris-mn0000159699/biography |website=AllMusic |access-date=13 August 2023}} A compilation album issued by Warner Bros. Records was released in 1984 titled Profile II: The Best of Emmylou Harris. One song never before released was "Someone Like You". Written by Dickey Lee and Bob McDill, the song was actually recorded six years prior in November 1978. The session was produced by Brian Ahern at Enactron Truck Studios in Los Angeles, California.{{cite journal |last1=Harris |first1=Emmylou |title="Someone Like You"/"Light of the Stable" (7" vinyl single) |journal=Warner Bros. Records |date=October 1984 |id=7-29138}}
Release, chart performance and reception
"Someone Like You" served as the lead single and only single off Profile II: The Best of Emmylou Harris. It was issued by Warner Bros. Records in October 1984. It was backed on the B-side by the song "Light of the Stable". The single was distributed as a seven-inch vinyl single. "Drivin' Wheel" debuted on the US Billboard Hot Country Songs chart in November 1984. It spent 18 weeks there, reaching the number 26 position in January 1984.{{cite book|last=Whitburn|first=Joel|title=Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008|publisher=Record Research, Inc|year=2008|isbn=0-89820-177-2|authorlink=Joel Whitburn}} The song reached the top 20 of the Canadian RPM Country Tracks chart, reaching the number 14 position around the same period.{{cite magazine|title=Search results for "Emmylou Harris" under "Country Singles"|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-110.01-e.php?PHPSESSID=gmrhouli7kvfvaeu848ka389j0&q1=emmylou+harris&q2=Country+Singles&interval=20|magazine=RPM|access-date=13 July 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121016041153/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-110.01-e.php?PHPSESSID=gmrhouli7kvfvaeu848ka389j0&q1=emmylou+harris&q2=Country+Singles&interval=20|archive-date=16 October 2012|url-status=dead}} "Someone Like You" was reviewed by Billboard magazine and was named one of their "country picks". "the sweetest voice in the Western world discourses on the inevitability of true lovers finding each other," the publication wrote.{{cite magazine |title=Reviews: Country Picks |magazine=Billboard |date=1984 |page=74 |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Music/Billboard-Index/IDX/1984/1984-soul-Billboard-Page-0074.pdf#search=%22emmylou%20harris%20someone%20like%20you%20single%20reviews%22 |access-date=13 August 2023}}
Track listing
Chart performance
| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center" |
| scope="col"| Chart (1984–1985)
! scope="col"| Peak |
|---|
| scope="row"| Canada Country Singles (RPM)
|align="center"|14 |
| {{single chart|Billboardcountrysongs|26|artist=Emmylou Harris|rowheader=true|accessdate=August 13, 2023}} |
References
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{{Emmylou Harris singles}}
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Category:Songs written by Dickey Lee
Category:Songs written by Bob McDill