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{{short description|1960 single by Sam Cooke}}
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| released = {{Start date|1960|04|14}}
| recorded = March 2, 1959
| studio = [[Radio Recorders]], [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]]
| venue =
| genre = [[Rhythm and blues]], [[soul music|soul]]
| length = {{Duration|m=2|s=09}}
| label = [[Keen Records|Keen]], [[A&M Records|A&M]], [[Dunhill Records|Dunhill]]
| writer = [[Lou Adler]], [[Herb Alpert]], Sam Cooke
| producer = Sam Cooke
| prev_title = You Understand Me
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| next_year = 1960
| misc = {{External music video|{{YouTube|R4GLAKEjU4w|"What A Wonderful World" (lyric video)}}}}
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"'''Wonderful World'''" (occasionally referred to as "'''(What A) Wonderful World'''") is a song by American singer-songwriter [[Sam Cooke]].
▲"'''Wonderful World'''" (occasionally referred to as "'''(What A) Wonderful World'''") is a song by American singer-songwriter [[Sam Cooke]]. Music arrangement was by the prolific [[Belford Hendricks]] who also wrote the arrangements for the songs "[[You Send Me]]", "[[Cupid (Sam Cooke song)|Cupid]]", "[[Chain Gang (song)|Chain Gang]]","[[(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons]]", and "[[A Change Is Gonna Come]]".{{citation needed|date=September 2019}} 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. He signed with [[RCA Victor]] in 1960 and "Wonderful World," then unreleased, was issued as a single in competition. The song was mainly composed by songwriting team [[Lou Adler]] and [[Herb Alpert]], but Cooke revised the lyrics to mention the subject of education more.
"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). The song peaked at number 12 on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] and hit number two on ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]''{{'s}} [[R&B/Hip-Hop Songs|Hot R&B Sides]] chart.
[[Herman's Hermits]] charted with
==Background==
Lou Adler and Herb Alpert composed the song with the theme that neither knowledge nor education can dictate feelings, but that love "could make the world a wonderful place
4 June 2023}}</ref> Campbell was also listed on the record labels for two other Cooke hits: "[[Only Sixteen]]" and "[[Everybody Loves to Cha Cha Cha]] The session's main goal was to record three songs Cooke had composed. 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.W. Alexander, [[Lou Rawls]], and [[George McCurn]] (nicknamed Oopie).{{sfn|Guralnick|2005|p=279}}
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==Release and reception==
Cooke signed to [[RCA Victor]] in 1960 but his first two singles on the major label – "Teenage Sonata" and "You Understand Me" – failed to register on the charts.{{sfn|Guralnick|2005|p=324}} Meanwhile, John Siamas, co-founder of Keen Records, discovered the "demo" recording of "Wonderful World" among unreleased Cooke recordings.{{sfn|Guralnick|2005|p=324}} Keen released "Wonderful World" in competition with RCA's issue of "You Understand Me" in the same week.{{sfn|Guralnick|2005|p=324}} "Wonderful World" quickly became Cooke's best-performing single since his first hit "[[You Send Me]]
In 2004, the song was placed 373rd in ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' magazine's [[List of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time|500 Greatest Songs of All Time]].
The song was inducted into the [[Grammy Hall of Fame]] in 2014.<ref>https://www.grammy.com/awards/hall-of-fame-award#w</ref>
==Later versions==
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{{Infobox song
| name = (What A) Wonderful World
| cover = (What_A)_Wonderful_World_-_Art_Garfunkel.jpg
| alt =
| type = single
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| studio =
| venue =
| genre = [[Easy listening]]
| length = 3:30
| label = [[Columbia Records|Columbia]]
| writer = [[Sam Cooke]], [[Lou Adler]], [[Herb Alpert]]
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| next_year = 1978
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*[[Herman's Hermits]] had a major hit in the mid-1960s with an uptempo version of the song (omitting one verse) which reached number one in Canada,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rpmimages.3345.ca/pdfs/Vol+3%2C+No.+19+-+Week+of+July+5th%2C+1965.pdf| title=RPM Top Magazine - July 5, 1965 - Page 9}}</ref> number four in the US, and number seven in the UK. The Hermits' version was, according to singer [[Peter Noone]] and guitarist [[Keith Hopwood]], done as a tribute to Cooke upon his death. In an interview with Hugh Brown prior to a 2020 concert in Edinburgh, Noone recalled that [[Jimmy Page]], later founder of [[Led Zeppelin]], played guitar on the track and was paid £12.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuojinVBizc |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/iuojinVBizc |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title=PETER NOONE &
*[[Otis Redding]] recorded a version of the song on his 1965 album ''[[Otis Blue]]''.
*[[Johnny Nash]] recorded a version for his [[eponymous]] 1977 album ''What a Wonderful World''.
*In 1978, [[Art Garfunkel]] recorded the song at a slow tempo, with [[Paul Simon]] and [[James Taylor]] alternating as lead and backing vocalists. This reached number 17 on the US ''[[Billboard Hot 100]]'' and number 15 on the ''[[Cashbox (magazine)|Cash Box]]'' Top 100.<ref name="cashboxmagazine.com">{{cite web|url=http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/70s_files/19780318.html |title=Top 100 1978-03-18 |work=[[Cashbox (magazine)|Cashbox Magazine]] |access-date=May 25, 2015 }}</ref> The Garfunkel version also became a number-one US [[Adult Contemporary]] hit for five weeks. Despite Paul Simon's presence on the recording, the song was not credited as a Simon and Garfunkel single. Instead, labels for US copies of the Columbia Records single read, "Art Garfunkel with James Taylor & Paul Simon".
:The song (as credited under the alternate title, "(What A) Wonderful World") was included on later versions of Garfunkel's solo album,
:The Garfunkel version includes a final verse not present in the original Sam Cooke recording; however, it is still credited to Adler, Alpert and Cooke. The lyrics to this new verse are as follows:
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:The last line repeats, and the song fades out at this point.
*[[David Bromberg]] recorded a bluesy version with slightly altered lyrics for his 1975 album ''[[Midnight on the Water (David Bromberg album)|Midnight on the Water]]''.
*[[Don McLean]] recorded a version of the song for his 1986 album ''[[For the Memories]]''.
*Hong Kong singer [[Sandy Lam]] released a cover of the song in 1997.
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==In popular culture==
The song is used in the 1978 film ''[[National Lampoon's Animal House|Animal House]]'' in the well-known lunchroom scene where Bluto ([[John Belushi]]) gathers food in preparation for a food fight.<ref>
After a Greg Chapman cover of the song was featured prominently in the 1985 film ''[[Witness (1985 film)|Witness]]'' in a scene where [[Harrison Ford]] dances with [[Kelly McGillis]], "Wonderful World" gained further exposure. Particularly in the United Kingdom, where a copy of the song, produced by [[Karl Jenkins]] and [[Mike Ratledge]] and with vocals sung by [[Barbadian people|Barbadian]] Tony Jackson, a backing singer for [[Paul Young]], appeared in "Bath", a well-remembered, Roger Lyons-directed 1985 advertisement for [[Levi Strauss & Co.|Levi's 501]] jeans.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Bryan Appleyard|author-link=Bryan Appleyard|title=Spectrum: I Sold It Through the Grapevine / Pop Music in Advertising|journal=[[The Times]]|date=August 22, 1986}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author=Sam Ingleby|title=Karl Jenkins: Fanfare for the Common Man|journal=[[The Independent]]|date=May 17, 2004}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ronroker.com/Latestreleases.htm |title=Latest Releases |publisher=Ron Roker |access-date=June 28, 2014 |archive-date=November 27, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131127073157/http://ronroker.com/Latestreleases.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> As a result, the Sam Cooke version of the song became a hit in the UK, reaching No.2 and selling a certified 250,000 copies. In a 2005 poll by the UK's [[Channel Four]] the song was voted the 19th-greatest song ever to feature in a commercial.<ref>{{cite web|title=Coke theme is top of the pops|work=[[The Manchester Evening News]] |url=http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/163/163787_coke_theme_is_top_of_the_pops.html|date=July 1, 2005|access-date=April 30, 2013}}</ref>
Cooke's version is also featured at the very beginning of the movie [[Hitch (film)]].
The song is featured in the [[Mafia III]]'s Official Soundtrack, published on October 7, 2016.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Mafia 3's Excellent Soundtrack Revealed, Contains These 100-Plus Songs|url=https://www.gamespot.com/articles/mafia-3s-excellent-soundtrack-revealed-contains-th/1100-6442877/|website=GameSpot|language=en-US|access-date=May 6, 2020}}</ref>
==Charts
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!scope="row"|Canada Digital Song Sales (''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'')<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/sam-cooke/chart-history/cns/|title=Sam Cooke Chart History (Canadian Digital Song Sales)|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|access-date=July 3, 2022}}</ref>
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{{Certification Table Entry|region=United Kingdom|title=Wonderful World|artist=Sam Cooke|type=single|award=Silver|relyear=1986|certyear=1986}}▼
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{{Certification Table Top|caption=Certifications for "Wonderful World"}}
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▲{{Certification Table Entry|region=United Kingdom|title=Wonderful World|artist=Sam Cooke|type=single|award=
==References==
* {{cite book | author=Wolff, Daniel J., S. R. Crain, Clifton White, and G. David Tenenbaum | title=You Send Me: The Life and Times of Sam Cooke | publisher=William Morrow & Co | year=1995 | isbn=0-688-12403-8 | url=https://archive.org/details/yousendmelifetim00wolff }}▼
* {{cite book | author=Guralnick, Peter | title=Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke | publisher=Little, Brown and Company | year=2005 | isbn=978-0316377942 | url=https://archive.org/details/dreamboogietrium00gura }}▼
==Bibliography==
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