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https://www.paypal.me/songworkout "Wonderful World" (sometimes referred to as "(What a) Wonderful World") is a soul song that was written in the late 1950s by soul music pioneer Sam Cooke, along with songwriters Lou Adler and Herb Alpert.
The song was first attributed to the pseudonym "Barbara Campbell" who was Sam Cooke's high school sweetheart. It was first recorded by Cooke in 1959 for his 1960 album, The Wonderful World of Sam Cooke. The song was released as a single in the spring of 1960, reaching #12 in the US and #27 in the UK.
Herman's Hermits had a major hit with an up tempo version of the son Otis Redding recorded a version of the son. In 1978, Art Garfunkel recorded the song as a ballad, with Paul Simon and James Taylor as backing vocalists. In 2004, the song was placed 373rd in Rolling Stone magazine's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
The song is used in the classic 1978 film Animal House in the well-known lunchroom scene. The song was also included in the 1983 film Breathless. The original Sam Cooke version of the song comprised the title soundtrack of the 2005 film Hitch.