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"I'll Never Find Another You"
Song
B-side"Open Up Them Pearly Gates"
"I'll Never Find Another You"
Song
B-side"Goodbye Maggie Goodbye"

"I'll Never Find Another You" is a 1964 single by The Seekers which reached No. 1 in the UK in February 1965.[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 Seekers' 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 July 2018, the song was featured in a Westpac bank TV advertisement in Australia, covered by Julia Jacklin.[5]

The song was added to the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia's Sounds of Australia registry in 2011.[6]

Chart performance

The Seekers

Chart (1964-65) Peak
position
Australian Kent Music Report[7] 1
UK Singles Chart[8] 1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[9] 4
U.S. Billboard Easy Listening 2
Ireland 2

Sonny James

Chart (1967) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles 1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 97

Other versions

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.[10]

Filipino singer/actress Nora Aunor covered the song for her 1968 album Nora Aunor Sings.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f 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. ^ http://www.uk-charts.top-source.info/top-100-1965.shtml
  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. ^ "YouTube". Westpac Banking. 24 July 2018. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  6. ^ "Sounds of Australia // National Film and Sound Archive, Australia". Nfsa.gov.au. Retrieved 5 April 2014.
  7. ^ "Billboard Magazine, March 13, 1965". Billboard.
  8. ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 175. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
  9. ^ "Billboard Magazine, December 1982". Billboard.
  10. ^ "107.7 The End: Ben gibbard + Zooey Deschanel - I'll Never Find Another You". YouTube. 4 November 2010. Retrieved 5 April 2014.


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