Wonderful WorldSam Cooke
Wonderful World
1960 · From The Wonderful World of Sam Cooke
Cooke cut it at his last Keen session and credited the writing to his wife's maiden name.
★ 7.6
Cooke cut it at his last Keen session and credited the writing to his wife's maiden name.

Buxton's riff, a children's chorus, a school bell fade; Cooper wanted the last three minutes of term on tape.

A twelve-string bass figure from Ament, a Texas newspaper item in Vedder's hands, and four VMAs in 1993.

Sting drew on his years teaching and on Nabokov, then watched it become Britain's best-selling single of 1980.

Ric Ocasek produced it, and the spoken verses lift straight from Gloria Winters' 1964 teenage charm and popularity guide.