Have I Told You Lately
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| Single by Van Morrison | ||||||||||
| from the album Avalon Sunset | ||||||||||
| B-side | "Contacting My Angel" | |||||||||
| Released | 5 June 1989 | |||||||||
| Format | CD single | |||||||||
| Recorded | 1989 | |||||||||
| Genre | Celtic, folk rock, soft rock | |||||||||
| Length | 4:20 | |||||||||
| Label | Mercury | |||||||||
| Writer(s) | Van Morrison | |||||||||
| Producer(s) | Van Morrison | |||||||||
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| Single by Rod Stewart | |
| from the album Unplugged...and Seated | |
| B-side | "Gasoline alley" |
| Released | June 1993 |
| Recorded | 4:08 |
| Genre | Soft rock |
| Label | Warner Bros. |
| Writer(s) | Van Morrison |
| Producer(s) | Michael Ostin |
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| Single by The Chieftains, Van Morrison | ||||||||||
| from the album The Long Black Veil | ||||||||||
| Released | 1995 | |||||||||
| Genre | Folk | |||||||||
| Length | 4:40 | |||||||||
| Label | RCA Records | |||||||||
| Writer(s) | Van Morrison | |||||||||
| Producer(s) | Paddy Moloney (with Chris Kimsey and Ry Cooder) | |||||||||
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"Have I Told You Lately" is a hit song written by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison and recorded for his 1989 album Avalon Sunset. It is a romantic ballad often played at weddings although it was originally written also as a prayer.
"Have I Told You Lately" has become a classic song and has received acclaim by winning a Grammy Award and a BMI Million-Air certificate. When released as a single by Mercury in 1989, it charted at number twelve on US Adult Contemporary Charts and has been a popular cover song with many vocal and instrumental versions recorded by numerous artists and bands. In 1993, Rod Stewart's version charted at number five in the US and UK.
Composed as a love ballad and built on the framework of "Someone Like You", it is preceded on Avalon Sunset by the song, "I'd Love to Write Another Song" proclaiming "In poetry I'd carve it well/ I'd even make it rhyme." Then, in the words of Brian Hinton what follows is:
"Have I Told You Lately" was listed as No. 261 on the "All Time 885 Greatest Songs" list compiled in 2004 by Philadelphia radio station WXPN from listeners' votes. In August 2006, Van Morrison's original recording was voted #6 on a list of the Top 10 First Dance Wedding Songs, based on a poll of 1,300 DJs in the UK. Van Morrison's original version of this song was #98 on the New York Daily News, The 100 Greatest Love Songs, from the list published on 12 February 2007. In October 2007, Van Morrison received a Million-Air certificate for over four million air plays of "Have I Told You Lately" from the prestigious BMI awards held in London, England.
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