Take a Girl Like You (song)

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"Take A Girl Like You"
Single by The Foundations
B-side "I'm Gonna Be A Rich Man"
Released 1970
Genre Soul, Pop
Label Pye Records 7N 17904 (UK)
Uni 55210 (USA)
Songwriter(s) Bill Martin, Phil Coulter
The Foundations singles chronology
"Baby I Couldn't See"
(1969)
"Take A Girl Like You"
(1970)
"I'm Gonna Be A Rich Man"
(1970)

Take A Girl Like You is a song by The Foundations. It was used as the title theme song for the 1970 Jonathan Miller directed film Take a Girl Like You that starred Hayley Mills and Oliver Reed. [1] The B side of the single "Im Gonna Be A Rich Man" was written by Foundations lead singer Colin Young. [2]

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