Can you identify a 60s song ("Like a Child?")?

Hello there. My first post. I seem to remember a song from around about 1962/3, which had lyrics which I recall as including "Like a child..." in the chorus and "I must confess that I/ Seem to love you more and more.." in the first two lines of a following verse. It was sung by a female singer, with a voice a little like Petula Clark/Dusty Springfield's, and the song had 60s Brit-soul-pop "ooh-oohs" from the backing singers, in the background.

I suspect that it wasn't a hit, but it was pleasant enough to my four-year-old ears! As always with these things, it's driving me mad - I only remembered it today because someone in the office just happened to come out with the phrase "like a child." Please help! Thanks a million!!

Welcome to the forums kwesi

Could your song be this...

Julie Rogers - "Like a child"

Here's a sample Click

Like a child
I need love and tender care
Like a child
Need you with me everywhere
Like a child
I can't stop playing
Hurt me I'll cry

Like a child
With a new and shiny toy
Like a child
I'm so full of love and joy
Like a flower with a tie
Desert me I'll die

I must confess that I
Never felt this way before
But with every passing day
It seems I love you more and more

Like a child
I want you so proud of me
Like a child
Me and my heart agree
That I could never love again
If you said goodbye
That I could never love again
If you said goodbye

Wow! I am absolutely gobsmacked, Ms. Mumbles!! Thank you very very much indeed!!! Astonishing.

If I can just share a little more about my memories of songs from that era, I also used to hum a little ditty that I recalled as "Someone will have her, before you can count/1-2-3/Yes, sirree, yes, sirree.." and I later found out that, slightly-garbled though it was, that was a Joe Tex song called "Hold What You've Got" from 1965, although I thought that it was a year earlier.

I'm really grateful for your input, and very impressed by this website, so I'll keep looking in here, hoping that I can do a similar kind service for someone one day!

You're very welcome Kwesi