It’s Art Garfunkel’s 79th birthday!
Art Garfunkel (with James Taylor and Paul Simon) – (What A) Wonderful World
Art Garfunkel was having a nice string of Top 40 and Hot 100 hits up to 1978’s ‘Watermark’ album.
A Top 40 hit came from an old Sam Cooke/Lou Adler song that was also a hit back in 1960 with Sam Cooke (#12), then again in 1965 with Herman’s Hermits (#7) and again in 1978 for Art, with the help from James Taylor trading lead and backing vocals.
In the 1978 version, there was an extra verse not in the original:
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…
