A Girl Like You (Edwyn Collins song)
| "A Girl Like You" | ||||
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| Single by Edwyn Collins | ||||
| from the album Gorgeous George | ||||
| B-side | "If You Could Love Me" | |||
| Released | 5 December 1994 | |||
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| Length | 3:59 | |||
| Label | Setanta | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Edwyn Collins | |||
| Producer(s) | Edwyn Collins | |||
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| "A Girl Like You" on YouTube | ||||
"A Girl Like You" is a song by British singer-songwriter Edwyn Collins from his third solo studio album, Gorgeous George (1994). It was released as a single in December 1994 by Setanta Records and peaked at number four on the UK Singles Chart. Outside the United Kingdom, "A Girl Like You" topped the charts of Flanders and Iceland and peaked within the top 10 in several countries, including Australia, France, Germany and Sweden.
There were different versions of the music video made for the song, directed by John Flansburgh and Gavin Evans. NME ranked "A Girl Like You" number 38 in their "NME Writers' Top 50 Singles of 1995", while Spin ranked it number eight in their list of the 20 best singles of 1995. The song was later sampled by Uniting Nations in their song "Everything About You".