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"Here Comes the Sun"
Song by the Beatles
from the album Abbey Road
Published
Harrisongs
Released
26 September 1969 (1969-09-26)
Recorded
7 July – 19 August 1969
Genre
Folk pop
pop rock
Length
3:06
Label
Apple
Songwriter(s)
George Harrison
Producer(s)
George Martin
Audio sample
file
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"Here Comes the Sun" is a song written by George Harrison that was first released on the Beatles' 1969 album Abbey Road. Along with "Something" and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", it is one of Harrison's best-known compositions from the Beatles era. The song was written at the country house of his friend Eric Clapton, where Harrison had chosen to play truant for the day, to avoid attending a meeting at the Beatles' Apple Corps organisation. The lyrics reflect the composer's relief at both the arrival of spring and the temporary respite he was experiencing from the band's business affairs.
The Beatles recorded "Here Comes the Sun" at London's EMI Studios in the summer of 1969. Led by Harrison's acoustic guitar, the recording also features Moog synthesizer, which he had introduced to the Beatles' sound after acquiring an early model of the instrument in California. Reflecting the continued influence of Indian classical music on Harrison's writing, the composition includes a series of unusual time changes.
"Here Comes the Sun" has received acclaim from music critics. Combined with his other contribution to Abbey Road, "Something", it gained for Harrison the level of recognition as a songwriter that had previously been reserved for his bandmates John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Harrison played the song during many of his relatively rare live performances as a solo artist, including at the Concert for Bangladesh in 1971 and, with Paul Simon, during his appearance on Saturday Night Live in 1976. Richie Havens[1] and Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel each had hit singles with "Here Comes the Sun" in the 1970s. Nina Simone, George Benson, Booker T. & the M.G.'s, Peter Tosh and Joe Brown are among the many other artists who have covered the song.
Contents
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1 Composition
2 Musical structure
3 Recording
4 Release and reception
5 Cultural references and legacy
6 Charts
6.1 Weekly charts
7 Cover versions
7.1 Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel
7.2 Other artists
8 Personnel
9 References
10 Sources
11 External links
Composition[edit]
"Here Comes the Sun" is one of Harrison's best-known Beatles compositions alongside "Something" and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". The early months of 1969 were a difficult period for Harrison: he had quit the band temporarily, he was arrested for marijuana possession, and he had his tonsils removed.
Harrison states in his autobiography, I, Me, Mine:
"Here Comes the Sun" was written at the time when Apple was getting like school, where we had to go and be businessmen: 'Sign this' and 'sign that.' Anyway, it seems as if winter in England goes on forever, by the time spring comes you really deserve it. So one day I decided I was going to sag off Apple and I went over to Eric Clapton's house. The relief of not having to go see all those dopey accountants was wonderful, and I walked around the garden with one of Eric's acoustic guitars and wrote "Here Comes the Sun".[2]
As Clapton states in his autobiography, the house in question is known as Hurtwood Edge. When interviewed in the Martin Scorsese documentary George Harrison: Living in the Material World, Clapton said he believed the month was April. Data from two meteorological stations in the London area show that April 1969 set a record for sunlight hours for the 1960s. The Greenwich station recorded 189 hours for April, a high that was not beaten until 1984. The Greenwich data also show that February and March were much colder than the norm for the 1960s, which would account for Harrison's reference to a "long, cold, lonely winter".[3]
Musical structure[edit]
The song is in the key of A major. The main refrain uses a IV (D chord) to V-of-V (B chord) progression (the reverse of that used in "Eight Days a Week" and "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band").[4] The melody in the verse and refrain basically follows the pentatonic scale from E up to C♯ (scale steps 5, 6, 1, 2, 3).[4]
One feature is the increasing syncopation in the vocal parts.[5] Another feature is the guitar flat-picking that embellishes the E7 (V7) chord from 2:03 to 2:11, creating tension for resolution on the tonic A chord at "Little darlin' ".[6] The bridge involves a ♭III-♭VII-IV-I-V7 triple descending 4th (or Tri-Plagal) progression (with an extra V7) as the vocals move from "Sun" (♭III or C chord) to "sun" (♭VII or G chord) to "sun" (IV or D chord) to "comes" (I or A chord) and the additional 4th descent to a V7 (E7) chord.[7] The lyric here ("Sun, sun, sun, here it comes") has been described as taking "on the quality of a meditator's mantra".[8] The song also features extreme 4/4 (in the verse) and a sequence of 11/8 + 4/4 + 7/8 (which can also be transcribed as 11/8 + 15/8) in the bridge, phrasing interludes which Harrison drew from Indian music influences.[4][9] In the second verse (0:59–1:13) the Moog synthesizer doubles the solo guitar line and in the third verse the Moog adds an obbligato line an octave above.[5] The last four bars (2:54–3:04) juxtapose the guitar break with a repeat of the bridge.[5]
Recording[edit]
Harrison, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr recorded the rhythm track in 13 takes on 7 July 1969.[10] John Lennon did not contribute to the song as he was recovering from a car crash.[11][12] Towards the end of the session Harrison spent an hour re-recording his acoustic guitar part. He capoed his guitar on the 7th fret, resulting in the final key of A major (in fact, slightly above A major due to the track being varispeeded by less than a semitone). He also used the same technique on his 1965 song "If I Needed Someone", which shares a similar melodic pattern. The following day he taped his lead vocals, and he and McCartney recorded their backing vocals twice to give a fuller sound.[5]
A harmonium and handclaps were added on 16 July.[13] Harrison added an electric guitar run through a Leslie speaker on 6 August, and the orchestral parts (George Martin's score for four violas, four cellos, double bass, two piccolos, two flutes, two alto flutes and two clarinets) were added on 15 August.[5] "Here Comes the Sun" was completed four days later with the addition of Harrison's Moog synthesizer part.[14] The master tapes reveal that Harrison recorded a guitar solo that was not included in the final mix at that time.[15][16]
Release and reception[edit]
Abbey Road was released on 26 September 1969 with "Here Comes the Sun" sequenced as the opening track on side two of the LP.[17] Along with "Something", which was issued as a single from the album, the song established Harrison as a composer to match Lennon and McCartney.[18][19][20] According to author Alan Clayson, Harrison's two Abbey Road compositions received "the most widespread syndication" of all the tracks on the album, partly through the number of cover versions they attracted.[21] Nine years later, Harrison recorded "Here Comes the Moon" as a lyrical successor to the song.
In Japan, "Here Comes the Sun" was issued on a single in 1970, as the B-side to McCartney's Abbey Road track "Oh! Darling".[22] While the Beatles never released the track on a single in Britain, new rules implemented to the UK Singles Chart in 2007 allowed any song to enter the charts based on download sales. This allowed several songs recorded by the Beatles to list on the charts when the group's back catalogue became available for download on iTunes in 2010, including "Here Comes the Sun", which peaked at number 58 on 27 November that year.
Writing for Rolling Stone in 2002, Mikal Gilmore likened "Here Comes the Sun" to the McCartney-written "Let It Be" and Lennon's "Imagine", as Harrison's "graceful anthem of hope amid difficult realities".[23] While expressing regret at having underestimated Harrison as a songwriter, Martin described "Here Comes the Sun" as being "in some ways one of the best songs ever written".[24]
Cultural references and legacy[edit]
In 1977, astronomer and science populariser Carl Sagan attempted to have "Here Comes the Sun" included on a disc of music accompanying the Voyager space mission.[25] Titled the Voyager Golden Record, copies of the disc were put on board both spacecraft in the Voyager program in order to provide any entity that recovered them with a representative sample of human civilization. Writing in his book Murmurs of Earth, Sagan recalls that the Beatles favoured the idea, but "[they] did not own the copyright, and the legal status of the piece seemed too murky to risk." When the probes were launched in 1977, the song was not included.[26]
The track has appeared in many critics' lists of the Beatles' best recordings. Among these, the NME placed it at number 4 in the magazine's 2015 list of "the 100 Greatest Beatles Songs".[27] In a similar poll compiled by Mojo in 2006, where the song appeared at number 21, Danny Eccleston described it as "perhaps the best song – outside 'Jerusalem' – that religion can claim credit for", adding: "Those who professed surprise at Harrison's immediate elevation to Most Successful Solo Beatle status [in 1970] clearly weren't listening to this."[28] "Here Comes the Sun" appeared at number 28 on Rolling Stone's 2010 list, where the editors commented: "Along with 'Something,' it gave notice that the Beatles now had three formidable composers."[29]
"Here Comes the Sun" was played as the entrance music for Ivanka Trump at the 2016 Republican National Convention. The George Harrison estate complained about the song being used to support Donald Trump's presidential campaign, saying it was "offensive and against the wishes of the George Harrison estate".[30] The Harrison family later tweeted: "If it had been Beware of Darkness, then we MAY have approved it! #TrumpYourself."[31]
Charts[edit]
Weekly charts[edit]
Chart (2017)
Peak
position
US Hot Rock Songs (Billboard)[32] 14
Cover versions[edit]
Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel[edit]
"Here Comes the Sun"
Single by Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel
from the album Love's a Prima Donna
B-side
"Lay Me Down"
Released
30 July 1976 (1976-07-30)
Format
7-inch single
Genre
Pop, rock
Length
2:55
Label
EMI
Songwriter(s)
George Harrison
Producer(s)
Steve Harley
Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel singles chronology
"White, White Dove"
(1976) "Here Comes the Sun"
(1976) "(I Believe) Love's a Prima Donna"
(1976)
"White, White Dove"
(1976) "Here Comes the Sun"
(1976) "(I Believe) Love's a Prima Donna"
(1976)
In 1976, "Here Comes the Sun" was covered by the British rock band Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel, and released as the lead single from their fifth studio album, Love's a Prima Donna.[33][34] The lineup on their version was Steve Harley on vocals and guitar, Jim Cregan on lead guitar and backing vocals, Jo Partridge on guitar and backing vocals, George Ford on bass guitar and backing vocals, Duncan Mackay on keyboards, and Stuart Elliott on drums. Additional backing vocals were provided by Yvonne Keeley, John G. Perry and Tony Rivers, while Lindsey Elliott played percussion.
"Here Comes the Sun" was the first cover version that Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel had chosen to record.[35][36] The song peaked at number 10 on the UK Singles Chart[34] and number 7 in Ireland.[37] It was the band's last top 40 single.
Other artists[edit]
In August 1971, Harrison performed the song at the Concert for Bangladesh,[38] accompanied by Pete Ham of the group Badfinger.[39] He also played it during his appearance on Saturday Night Live in November 1976, as a duet with Paul Simon.[40] A live version from his 1991 Japanese tour with Eric Clapton appears on Harrison's Live in Japan double album.[22]
Booker T. & the M.G.'s included the song on their 1970 Abbey Road tribute album, McLemore Avenue.[41] That same year, "Here Comes the Sun" was covered by Peter Tosh and released as a single, although it was not widely available until its inclusion on Can't Blame the Youth in 2004. We Five released a version on their 1970 album Catch the Wind.[42]
American folk singer Richie Havens had a US hit with his 1971 version, which peaked at number 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.[43] Nina Simone recorded "Here Comes the Sun" as the title track to her 1971 covers album.[44]
Sandy Farina covered "Here Comes the Sun" on the Martin-produced soundtrack to the 1978 film Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.[22] In 1980, on their album Flaming Schoolgirls, the Runaways recorded "Here Comes the Sun". Dave Edmunds, Debbie Gibson and Raffi sang a live cover version in a Japanese television special aired in 1990.[45] On their 1994 debut album, Who Is, This Is?, ska-punk band Voodoo Glow Skulls recorded a version of the song.[46]
Linda Eder released a version of "Here Comes the Sun" in 2002 on her Gold album. On 29 November that year, Joe Brown performed the song at the Concert for George tribute,[47] which was organised by Clapton and held at the Royal Albert Hall in London.[48] Brown's performance was included on the subsequent live album from the event[49] and in David Leland's concert film.[50]
Sheryl Crow sang "Here Comes the Sun" in the 2007 animated film Bee Movie. Swedish heavy metal band Ghost released a version of the song as a bonus track on the Japanese edition of their 2010 album Opus Eponymous. Marina Prior recorded the song for her 2012 album Both Sides Now.
Malaysian singer Yuna recorded her version for the 2012 film Savages. It can be heard in the ending credits.
Naya Rivera and Demi Lovato performed the song, as Santana Lopez and Dani respectively, in Glee's fifth season episode "Tina in the Sky with Diamonds". Their duet version appears on the album Glee Sings the Beatles, released in September 2013. Writing for MTV, Jocelyn Vena commented that the two singers sang "in perfect harmony over a plucky guitar."[51] Idolator also pointed out "their beautiful harmonies" as a highlight.[52]
Paul Simon has often performed "Here Comes the Sun" in concert,[53] as a tribute to Harrison.[54] In September 2014, Simon played the song live on the TBS television show Conan as part of the show's "George Harrison Week" initiative.[53][55]
Personnel[edit]
According to Ian MacDonald, the lineup on the Beatles' recording was as follows.[11]
The Beatles
George Harrison – lead and backing vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, harmonium, Moog synthesizer, handclaps
Paul McCartney – backing vocal, bass, handclaps
Ringo Starr – drums, handclaps
Orchestra
Uncredited – four violas, four cellos, double bass, two piccolos, two flutes, two alto flutes, two clarinets
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External links[edit]
Wikiquote has quotations related to: Abbey Road
Review from AllMusic
Full lyrics for the song at the Beatles' official website
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Abbey Road
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Side one
"Come Together"
"Something"
"Maxwell's Silver Hammer"
"Oh! Darling"
"Octopus's Garden"
"I Want You (She's So Heavy)"
Side two
"Here Comes the Sun"
"Because"
"You Never Give Me Your Money"
"Sun King"
"Mean Mr. Mustard"
"Polythene Pam"
"She Came In Through the Bathroom Window"
"Golden Slumbers"
"Carry That Weight"
"The End"
"Her Majesty"
Non-album single
"The Ballad of John and Yoko"
"Old Brown Shoe"
Outtakes
"Come and Get It"
"Ain't She Sweet"
Related articles
Abbey Road, London
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Break-up of the Beatles
Iain Macmillan
McLemore Avenue
The Other Side of Abbey Road
Please Please Me
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A Hard Day's Night
Beatles for Sale
Help!
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Magical Mystery Tour
The Beatles (White Album)
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Abbey Road
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The Beatles singles discography
UK and US
(all labels)
1963
"Please Please Me" / "Ask Me Why"
"From Me to You" / "Thank You Girl"
"She Loves You" / "I'll Get You"
1964
"Can't Buy Me Love" / "You Can't Do That"
"I Feel Fine" / "She's a Woman"
1965
"Ticket to Ride" / "Yes It Is"
"Help!" / "I'm Down"
"We Can Work It Out" / "Day Tripper"
1966
"Paperback Writer" / "Rain"
"Yellow Submarine" / "Eleanor Rigby"
1967
"Penny Lane" / "Strawberry Fields Forever"
"All You Need Is Love" / "Baby, You're a Rich Man"
"Hello, Goodbye" / "I Am the Walrus"
1968
"Lady Madonna" / "The Inner Light"
"Hey Jude" / "Revolution"
1969
"Get Back" / "Don't Let Me Down"
"The Ballad of John and Yoko" / "Old Brown Shoe"
"Something" / "Come Together"
1970
"Let It Be" / "You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)"
1978
"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band/With a Little Help from My Friends" / "A Day in the Life"
1982
"The Beatles Movie Medley" / "I'm Happy Just to Dance with You"
1995
"Free as a Bird" / "Christmas Time (Is Here Again)"
1996
"Real Love" / "Baby's in Black"
UK only
(Parlophone,
Apple)
1962
"My Bonnie" / "The Saints"
"Love Me Do" / "P.S. I Love You"
1963
"I Want to Hold Your Hand" / "This Boy"
1964
"Ain't She Sweet" / "If You Love Me, Baby"
"A Hard Day's Night" / "Things We Said Today"
1976
"Yesterday" / "I Should Have Known Better"
"Back in the U.S.S.R." / "Twist and Shout"
US only
(Vee-Jay,
Swan,
Tollie,
Capitol,
Apple)
1963
"I Want to Hold Your Hand" / "I Saw Her Standing There"
1964
"Twist and Shout" / "There's a Place"
"Do You Want to Know a Secret" / "Thank You Girl"
"Love Me Do" / "P.S. I Love You"
"Sie liebt dich" / "I'll Get You"
"I'll Cry Instead" / "I'm Happy Just to Dance with You"
"And I Love Her" / "If I Fell"
"A Hard Day's Night" / "I Should Have Known Better"
"Matchbox" / "Slow Down"
1965
"Eight Days a Week" / "I Don't Want to Spoil the Party"
"Yesterday" / "Act Naturally"
1966
"Nowhere Man" / "What Goes On"
1970
"The Long and Winding Road" / "For You Blue"
1976
"Got to Get You into My Life" / "Helter Skelter"
"Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" / "Julia"
Other
countries
(Odeon,
Parlophone,
Apple)
1963
"All My Loving" / "This Boy" (Canada)
1964
"Komm, gib mir deine Hand / Sie liebt dich" (Germany)
1966
"Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" / "Nowhere Man" (Australia)
1968
"Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" / "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (Europe, Japan, Australia)
"Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" / "I Will" (Philippines)
"Back in the U.S.S.R." / "Don't Pass Me By" (Sweden)
1969
"You're Going to Lose That Girl" / "Tell Me What You See" (Japan)
1970
"Oh! Darling" / "Here Comes the Sun" (Japan)
1972
"All Together Now" / "Hey Bulldog" (Europe)
1978
"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band/With a Little Help from My Friends" / "Within You Without You" (Germany)
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Paul Jeffreys
Milton Reame-James
Jim Cregan
George Ford
Duncan Mackay
Stuart Elliott
Lincoln Anderson
Studio albums (Cockney Rebel)
The Human Menagerie (1973)
The Psychomodo (1974)
Studio albums (Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1975)
Timeless Flight (1976)
Love's a Prima Donna (1976)
The Quality of Mercy (2005)
Studio albums (Steve Harley)
Hobo with a Grin (1978)
The Candidate (1979)
Yes You Can (1992)
Poetic Justice (1996)
Stranger Comes to Town (2010)
Live albums
Face to Face: A Live Recording (1977)
Stripped to the Bare Bones (1999)
Acoustic and Pure: Live (2003)
Anytime! (A Live Set) (as The Steve Harley Band, 2004)
Birmingham (Live with Orchestra & Choir) (2013)
Compilations
A Closer Look (1975)
The Best of Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel (1980)
The Collection (1983)
Greatest Hits (1987)
Mr Soft (1988)
Live at the BBC (1995)
More Than Somewhat – The Very Best of Steve Harley (1998)
The Cream of Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel (1999)
Best of the '70s (2000)
The Cockney Rebel - A Steve Harley Anthology (2006)
The Best of Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel (2008)
Cavaliers: An Anthology 1973-1974 (2012)
Original Album Series (2014)
Singles (Cockney Rebel)
"Sebastian"
"Judy Teen"
"Hideaway"
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What a Wonderful World
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For the Sam Cooke song, see Wonderful World (Sam Cooke song). For other uses, see Wonderful World (disambiguation).
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"What a Wonderful World"
Single by Louis Armstrong
from the album What a Wonderful World
B-side
"Cabaret"
Released
October 18, 1967[citation needed]
Format
7"
Recorded
August 16, 1967
Genre
Traditional pop
jazz
Length
2:21
Label
ABC 10982, HMV
Songwriter(s)
Bob Thiele (as George Douglas)
George David Weiss[1]
Producer(s)
Bob Thiele[1]
Louis Armstrong singles chronology
"Mi va de cantare"
(1967) "What a Wonderful World"
(1967) "Hello Brother"
(1968)
"Mi va de cantare"
(1967) "What a Wonderful World"
(1967) "Hello Brother"
(1968)
"What a Wonderful World" is a pop ballad written by Bob Thiele (as "George Douglas") and George David Weiss. It was first recorded by Louis Armstrong and released in 1967 as a single, which topped the pop charts in the United Kingdom.[1] Thiele and Weiss were both prominent in the music world (Thiele as a producer and Weiss as a composer/performer).[2] Armstrong's recording was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999. The publishing for this song is controlled by Memory Lane Music Group, Carlin Music Corp. and BMG Rights Management.
Contents
[hide]
1 History
2 Charts and certifications
2.1 Peak positions
2.2 Certifications
3 Notable versions
4 Appearances in film and television
4.1 Film
4.2 Television
4.3 Sources
5 References
6 External links
History[edit]
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The song was initially offered to Tony Bennett, who turned it down.[3] Thereafter, it was offered to Louis Armstrong. George Weiss recounts in the book Off the Record: Songwriters on Songwriting by Graham Nash that he wrote the song specifically for Louis Armstrong. Weiss was inspired by Armstrong's ability to bring people of different races together. The song was not initially a hit in the United States, where it sold fewer than 1,000 copies because ABC Records head Larry Newton did not like the song and therefore did not promote it,[4] but was a major success in the United Kingdom, reaching number one on the UK Singles Chart.[1] In the United States, the song hit No. 116 on the Billboard Bubbling Under Chart. It was also the biggest-selling single of 1968 in the UK where it was among the last pop singles issued by HMV Records before becoming an exclusive classical music label.[5] The song made Louis Armstrong the oldest male to top the UK Singles Chart.[1] Armstrong's record was broken in 2009 when a remake of "Islands in the Stream" recorded for Comic Relief—which included the 68-year-old Tom Jones—reached number one in that chart. Tony Bennett did go on to record "What A Wonderful World" several times, as in 2003 with k.d. lang, paying homage to Bennett's friend, Armstrong.
ABC Records' European distributor EMI forced ABC to issue a What a Wonderful World album in 1968 (catalogue number ABCS-650). It did not chart in the United States, due to ABC not promoting it,[6] but charted in the UK where it was issued by Stateside Records with catalogue number SSL 10247 and peaked on the British chart at No. 37.
The song gradually became something of a standard and reached a new level of popularity. In 1978, Armstrong's 1967 recording was featured in the closing scenes of the first series of BBC radio's cult hit, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and was repeated for BBC's 1981 TV adaptation of the series. In 1988, Armstrong's recording appeared in the film Good Morning, Vietnam (despite the film being set in 1965 — two years before it was recorded) and was re-released as a single, hitting No. 32 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in February 1988. The single charted at number one for the fortnight ending June 27, 1988 on the Australian chart. It is also the closing song for the 1995 movie 12 Monkeys.
In 2001, rappers Ghostface Killah, Raekwon and The Alchemist released "The Forest," a song that begins with three lines of lyric adapted from "What a Wonderful World", altered to become "an invitation to get high" on marijuana.[7] The rappers and their record company, Sony Music Entertainment, were sued by the owners of "What a Wonderful World," Abilene Music. The suit was thrown out of court after Judge Gerard E. Lynch determined that the altered lyric was indisputably a parody, transforming the uplifting original message to a new one with a darker nature.[7][8]
By April 2014, Louis Armstrong's 1967 recording had sold 2,173,000 downloads in the United States after it was released digitally.[9]
Charts and certifications[edit]
Peak positions[edit]
Chart (1967/68)
Peak
position
Australia[10] 29
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[11]
1
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[12]
6
Denmark[13] 2
Germany (Official German Charts)[14]
6
Ireland[15] 2
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[16]
15
Netherlands (MediaMarkt)[17] 14
New Zealand 15
Norway (VG-lista)[18]
6
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[19]
7
U.K. Singles Chart 1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 116
U.S. Adult Contemporary (Billboard) 12
Chart (1976)
Peak
position
Italy (FIMI)[20] 11
Chart (1988)
Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[21]
1
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[12]
7
Belgium (VRT Top 30 Flanders)[22] 1
Canada (RPM Magazine) 13
Ireland[15] 30
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[16]
5
Netherlands (MediaMarkt)[17] 2
New Zealand 8
Poland 22
U.S. (Billboard) 32
U.S. Adult Contemporary (Billboard) 7
U.S. (Radio & Records) 37
U.S. (Cashbox) 37
U.S. (Rock on the Net - ARC Weekly Top 40)[23] 28
Certifications[edit]
Region
Certification
Italy (FIMI)[24]
Gold
Notable versions[edit]
1967: Louis Armstrong, million-selling original version
1989: Roy Clark, on his album of the same name (peaked at No. 73 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart)[25]
1992: Nick Cave, single sung with Shane MacGowan; in 2005 was also published on the album B-Sides & Rarities
1993: Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Hawaiian ukulele version (medley with "Somewhere Over the Rainbow") on the album Facing Future (sold over 2.5 million copies in the U.S. and Canada alone)[26]
1999: Anne Murray, on her platinum release of the same name, which also spawned a book and video (the album reached No. 1 on the US CCM chart, No. 4 on the US Country chart, and No. 38 on the top 200)
2002: Joey Ramone's posthumous version was used for the ending credits of Michael Moore's film Bowling for Columbine.
2002: Da Vinci's Notebook ended their album Brontosaurus with an a cappella version.
2003: Sarah Brightman's Harem album
2004: Céline Dion recorded the song for her album Miracle.
2004: Rod Stewart recorded a version of the song with Stevie Wonder for Stewart's album Stardust: The Great American Songbook, Volume III (released in the United States as the lead single from the album and by early 2005 reached No. 13 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart).[27]
2007: Foxygen covered the song on their self-produced first album Jurrassic Exxplosion Phillipic.
2007: Katie Melua, singing with Eva Cassidy's version to raise money for the Red Cross (reached No. 1 in the UK chart in December 2007)
2008: Ministry, along with other cover songs on their album Cover Up
2009: The Clarks' version was recorded for their album Restless Days. This version was also featured on The Simpsons's Season 27 premiere, Every Man's Dream. It is also used after every Home win for the Pittsburgh Penguins at PPG Paints Arena.
2010: Ziggy Marley's version on The Disney Reggae Club
2012: Pat Byrne reached No. 3 in the Irish Singles Chart after appearing on The Voice of Ireland.
2012: Music charity Playing For Change recorded this song featuring Grandpa Elliott.[28]
2015: Tiago Iorc's version was recorded to be used as the opening theme of the Brazilian telenovela Sete Vidas.[29]
2013: Renée Geyer on her album Swing (2013)
2016: Tally Koren's version was recorded to be used in her album A Love Song for You.
Appearances in film and television[edit]
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Film[edit]
Title
Performer
Year
Source
Arjun Reddy (Telugu movie) Background music 2017
Geostorm (teaser trailer only) Sharon Van Etten & Juggernaut Kid 2017
Range 15 Louis Armstrong 2016 1
Finding Dory Louis Armstrong 2016 1
Un gallo con muchos huevos Louis Armstrong 2015 1
Mein Salzburg Louis Armstrong 2015 1
Back to the Sea Louis Armstrong 2012 1
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
(slightly different version of the song) Dwayne Johnson 2012
New Year's Eve Louis Armstrong 2011 1
Head Over Heels Louis Armstrong 2010 1
Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay Louis Armstrong 2008 1
Madagascar Louis Armstrong 2005 1
Swing Girls Louis Armstrong 2004 1
Freaky Friday Joey Ramone 2003 1
Bowling for Columbine Louis Armstrong 2002 1
Meet Joe Black Louis Armstrong 1998 1
Madeline Louis Armstrong 1998 1
Wrestling with Alligators Louis Armstrong 1998 1
12 Monkeys Louis Armstrong 1995 1
The Kennedy Years (JFK Remembered) Louis Armstrong 1993 1
Ciao, Professore! Louis Armstrong 1992 1
Good Morning, Vietnam Louis Armstrong 1987 1
Chicken Little (teaser trailer only) Louis Armstrong 2005 1
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (teaser trailer only) Louis Armstrong 2005
Television[edit]
Series
Episode
Performer
Year
Source
The OA Champion Sharon Van Etten & Juggernaut Kid 2016 1
MythBusters The Reunion Special Louis Armstrong 2016 1
Childhood's End #1.1 Joseph William Morgan 2015
The Simpsons Every Man's Dream The Clarks 2015 1
Strictly Come Dancing Week 9 Results Louis Armstrong 2014 1
Inspector George Gently The Lost Child Louis Armstrong 2012 1
The Mentalist Blinking Red Light Louis Armstrong 2011 1
An Idiot Abroad Karl Comes Home Louis Armstrong 2010 1
So You Think You Can Dance (Canada) Top 8 Perform Louis Armstrong 2009 1
The Simpsons The Good, the Sad and the Drugly Louis Armstrong 2009 1
20 to 1 Greatest Songs of All Time Louis Armstrong 2006 1
Life on Mars #1.6 Louis Armstrong 2006 1
House, MD DNR Louis Armstrong 2005 1
Hinter Gittern Fahrte aufgenommen Louis Armstrong 2004 1
Racheengel Louis Armstrong 2001 1
Lust & Suhne Louis Armstrong 2001 1
Hahn im Korb Louis Armstrong 1999 1
Die Lugners #1.9 Louis Armstrong 2003 1
#1.3 Louis Armstrong 2003 1
Dawson's Creek Hopeless Louis Armstrong 2001 1
Gilmore Girls Rory's Birthday Parties Louis Armstrong 2000 1
The King of Queens Head First Louis Armstrong 1998 1
Cybill Cybill Discovers the Meaning of Life Louis Armstrong 1995 1
Vamp Louis Armstrong 1991 1
Florida Lady Lauf dem Leben nicht davon Louis Armstrong 1994 1
Twin Peaks #2.7 Louis Armstrong 1990 1
The Green Man Louis Armstrong 1990 1
Moonlighting A Womb with a View Louis Armstrong 1988 1
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #1.6 Louis Armstrong 1981 1
The Muppet Show Don Knotts (#2.1) Rowlf (Jim Henson) 1977 2
Sources[edit]
Internet Movie Database[30]
Jim Henson's Red Book[31]
References[edit]
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External links[edit]
How political is What A Wonderful World? - BBC News article about history and meaning of song
Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
Barrueco & Balles Music play What a Wonderful World
Preceded by
"Congratulations" by Cliff Richard UK number one single
Louis Armstrong version
24 April 1968 (for 4 weeks) Succeeded by
"Young Girl" by Gary Puckett & The Union Gap
Preceded by
"Bleeding Love" by Leona Lewis UK Singles Chart number-one single
(Katie Melua & Eva Cassidy version)
December 16, 2007 - December 22, 2007 Succeeded by
"When You Believe" by Leon Jackson
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This is a list of the extreme points of South America, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location on the continent. The continent's southernmost point is incorrectly often said to be Cape Horn, but Águila Islet of the Diego Ramirez Islands is actually the southernmost point.
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1 Latitude and longitude
1.1 South America
1.2 South America (mainland)
2 Elevation
3 See also
4 Notes
5 References
6 External links
Latitude and longitude[edit]
Geographic coordinates expressed in WGS 84.
South America[edit]
Northernmost point: Santa Catalina Island in San Andrés y Providencia Department, Colombia (13°24′03″N 81°22′14″W)[1]
Southernmost point can be either:
Águila Islet, Diego Ramirez Islands, Chile[2] (56°32′16″S 68°43′10″W / 56.53778°S 68.71944°W / -56.53778; -68.71944), or, if the South Sandwich Islands are included as part of South America:
Cook Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (59°29′20″S 27°8′40″W / 59.48889°S 27.14444°W / -59.48889; -27.14444)
Westernmost point can be either:
Darwin Island, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador (01°40′44″N 92°00′33″W / 1.67889°N 92.00917°W / 1.67889; -92.00917), or, if Easter Island is included as part of South America:
Motu Nui (27°12′4″S 109°27′18″W / 27.20111°S 109.45500°W / -27.20111; -109.45500)
Easternmost point can be either:
Ilha do Sul, Trindade and Martim Vaz, Brazil (20°29′50″S 28°50′51″W / 20.49722°S 28.84750°W / -20.49722; -28.84750), or, if the South Sandwich Islands are included as part of South America:
Montagu Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (58°30′43″S 26°16′7″W / 58.51194°S 26.26861°W / -58.51194; -26.26861)
South America (mainland)[edit]
Northernmost point: Punta Gallinas, Colombia (12°27′31″N 71°40′8″W / 12.45861°N 71.66889°W / 12.45861; -71.66889)
Southernmost point: Cape Froward, Chile (53°53′47″S 71°17′40″W / 53.89639°S 71.29444°W / -53.89639; -71.29444)
Westernmost point: Punta Pariñas, Peru (4°40′58″S 81°19′43″W / 4.68278°S 81.32861°W / -4.68278; -81.32861)
Easternmost point: Ponta do Seixas, Brazil (7°9′19″S 34°47′35″W / 7.15528°S 34.79306°W / -7.15528; -34.79306)
Center: 40 km. NWbN of Fuerte Olimpo, Alto Paraguay, Paraguay (20°43′8″S 58°3′39″W / 20.71889°S 58.06083°W / -20.71889; -58.06083)
Elevation[edit]
Highest point: Aconcagua,[note 1][3] Mendoza, Argentina32°39′12″S 70°0′40″W / 32.65333°S 70.01111°W / -32.65333; -70.01111 (Aconcagua) at 6961 m
Lowest point: Laguna del Carbón, Santa Cruz, Argentina 49°34′34″S 68°21′5″W / 49.57611°S 68.35139°W / -49.57611; -68.35139 (Laguna del Carbón) at −105 m
See also[edit]
Geography of South America
Extreme points of the Earth
Extreme points of the Americas
Extreme points of North America
Extreme points of Central America
Extreme points of the Caribbean
Extreme points of South America
Extreme points of Argentina
Extreme points of Brazil
Extreme points of Chile
Extreme points of Colombia
Extreme points of Peru
Notes[edit]
Jump up ^ The summit of Aconcagua is the highest point of Andes, Argentina, South America, and all of the Americas. Mount Aconcagua is the second most prominent summit on Earth.
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Extreme points of Colombia
Jump up ^ The geology of Chile (p. 36)
Jump up ^ "Aconcagua". Summits of the World. peakbagger.com. Retrieved September 8, 2012.
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