Wonderful World (Sam Cooke song)

Wonderful World is a song by Sam Cooke from 1960, which was written by him, Herb Alpert and Lou Adler.

History

Wonderful World was taken on March 2, 1959, and published on 14 April 1960 as a single. On the flip side, the piece Along the Navajo Trail is .. The song is sometimes confused because of his title as the Louis Armstrong song What a Wonderful World.

In the text, it is important that a young man declared that he had no idea of history, biology, etc., but that he loved the Angesungene. Although he knew that he would not make it to become a better student, but he wanted to try it, because then he might have a better chance of winning her love for themselves. If they love him too, this would be a wonderful world.

In the United States Wonderful World reached number 12 of the singles charts.

The song first appeared on an album, after RCA had the rights acquired on the Keen recordings, on The Wonderful World 1957-1962 The song was in films such as I think, ' Animal House, Breathless and Hitch -. The Date doctor used.

In 1986 the song was re-released with great success and was able to prove in Germany for a month number three on the charts. 2004 reached the song space 373 in Rolling Stone's list of 500 best songs of all time.

Cover versions

The song has been covered by, among others, Otis Redding, Bryan Ferry, Johnny Nash, Saragossa Band, Sananda Maitreya, Tony Jackson, The Flying Pickets and Roger Whittaker.

The most successful cover version is by Herman 's Hermits, who reached her single in the U.S. charts and number 4 in the UK came to 7th place.