What a Wonderful World

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Wonderful World" ended up doing substantially better on the charts than several of his early RCA singles, becoming his biggest hit single since " You Send Me" (1957). In 1993, Japanese group Ulfuls released a cover of the song, which was later used in 1997 as ending song for the drama "Sore ga kotae da! Released on April 14, 1960, by Keen Records, it had been recorded during an impromptu session the previous year in March 1959, at Sam Cooke's last recording session at Keen. Then in 1988, the song was back in the charts when its appearance on the soundtrack to the hit movie Good Morning Vietnam brought it to the attention of a new generation of listeners. Its 1986 success was attributed to sound-alike versions featured in the film Witness (1985) and a Levi's 501 television commercial.

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Since then, a diverse array of cover versions – from Tony Bennett to Joey Ramone and Celine Dion to the Flaming Lips – have helped to cement “What A Wonderful World”’s iconic status. The lyrics to this new verse are as follows: Don't know much about the middle ages, looked at the pictures then I turned the pages Don't know nothin' 'bout no rise and fall, don't know nothin' 'bout nothin' at all Girl it's you that I've been thinkin' of, and if I could only win your love, oh, girl What a wonderful, wonderful world this would be What a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful world this would be.Keen released "Wonderful World" in competition with RCA's issue of "You Understand Me" in the same week. Larry Newton had come to Vegas to get some promotional photographs of the singer/trumpeter and, when he found out about the recording session, he tried to shut it down. The song (as credited under the alternate title, "(What A) Wonderful World") was included on later versions of Garfunkel's solo album, Watermark.

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He signed with RCA Victor in 1960 and "Wonderful World", then unreleased, was issued as a single in competition. With his craggy, weathered voice, he sang a song of hope that seemed to resonate with people everywhere. There was no arranger or orchestra and the personnel consisted of Cooke, guitarist Cliff White, bassist Adolphus Alsbrook, teenage drummer Ronnie Selico and a quartet of singers that Cooke biographer Peter Guralnick believes may have been the Pilgrim Travelers – J.I think making this song into a picture book is such a cute thing, its giving the message that the world truly is beautiful and the pictures in the book help to show that as well. One page has a bunch of kids of many skin hues, but the rest features only a brown-haired white boy, like it was written in the long-ago. The legendary New Orleans singer and trumpeter Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong had been making records since 1923, but in 1967 he released “What A Wonderful World,” which would become the biggest-selling song of his long and storied career. Herman's Hermits charted with their recording of the song in 1965, reaching number one in Canada, [1] number four in the United States, and number seven in the United Kingdom, respectively. Used with Year 1's to create a short poem about a wonderful world (linking also with their topic and history on climate change/ activists).