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Searching (For Someone Like You)

1956 single by Kitty Wells

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 20, 2024
Entity authorityQ104878976 ↗
Source-derived summary

"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. 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.

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“Searching (For Someone Like You)” enters the record as 1956 single by Kitty Wells. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Searching, Someone and Like can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1956—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Searching, Someone and Like.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 20, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q104878976. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1956.

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This entry incorporates text from “Searching (For Someone Like You)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.