I'll Never Find Another You

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"I'll Never Find Another You"
I'll Never Find Another You - The Seekers.jpg
Single by The Seekers
from the album The Best of The Seekers
B-side "Open Up Them Pearly Gates"
ReleasedDecember 1964
Recorded4 November 1964 at Abbey Road Studios London
Genre Folk-pop [1]
Length2:40
Label EMI Columbia DB 7431, [2] Capitol
Songwriter(s) Tom Springfield [2]
Producer(s) Tom Springfield [2]
The Seekers singles chronology
"I'll Never Find Another You"
(1964)
"What Have They Done to the Rain"
(1965)
"I'll Never Find Another You"
Single by Sonny James
from the album I'll Never Find Another You
B-side "Goodbye Maggie Goodbye"
ReleasedMay 1967
Genre Country
Label Capitol
Songwriter(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 1964 single by The Seekers, which reached No. 1 in the United Kingdom in February 1965. [2] It was The Seekers' first UK-released single, [2] and it was the second-best-selling of 1965 in the UK. [3] The song was also popular in the United States, reaching peaks of No. 4 pop and No. 2 easy listening on the Billboard Hot 100 charts. [4]

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The track was written and produced by Tom Springfield, [2] who was also responsible for most of The Seekers' subsequent hits.

It received a 1967 US revival as a country music No. 1 by Sonny James. [5]

In July 2018, the tune was featured in a Westpac bank TV advertisement in Australia, covered by Julia Jacklin. [6]

The song was added to the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia's Sounds of Australia registry in 2011. [7]

Chart performance

The Seekers

Chart (1964–1965)Peak
position
Australian Kent Music Report [8] 1
UK Singles Chart [9] 1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 [10] 4
U.S. Billboard Easy Listening2
Ireland2

Sonny James

Chart (1967)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles1
U.S. Billboard Hot 10097

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