Searching (For Someone Like You)

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"Searching (For Someone Like You)"
Single by Kitty Wells
from the album The Kitty Wells Story 1963
B-side"I'd Rather Stay Home"
Released1956
Recorded1956
GenreCountry
Length2:25
LabelDecca
Songwriter(s)Murphy "Pee Wee" Maddux
Kitty Wells singles chronology
"How Far Is Heaven"
(1956)
"Searching (For Someone Like You)"
(1956)
"Repenting"
(1956)

"Searching (For Someone Like You)" is a song written by Pee Wee Maddux, sung by Kitty Wells, and released on the Decca label (catalog no. 9-29956). In July 1956, it peaked at No. 3 on Billboard's country and western juke box chart.[1] It spent 34 weeks on the charts and was also ranked No. 5 on Billboard's 1956 year-end country and western retail best seller chart and No. 9 on the year-end juke box chart.[1][2]

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  1. ^ a b Joel Whitburn (1996). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Country Hits. Billboard Books. p. 348. ISBN 0823076326.
  2. ^ "1956's Top Country and Western Records". The Billboard. January 26, 1957. p. 64.