Wonderful!_Wonderful!

Wonderful! Wonderful!

Wonderful! Wonderful!

1956 song by Sherman Edwards and Ben Raleigh


"Wonderful! Wonderful!" is a popular music song written by Sherman Edwards, with lyrics by Ben Raleigh.[1] The song was first published in 1956. In the United States, a recording by Johnny Mathis[2] reached number 14 on the Billboard charts.[3] It was Mathis' debut single.

Quick Facts from the album Johnny's Greatest Hits, B-side ...
Quick Facts Single by The Tymes, from the album So Much in Love ...

Other versions

  • In the United Kingdom, Ronnie Hilton recorded a version that reached number 27 on the UK Singles Chart.[4]
  • In 1963, a recording by the Tymes peaked at number 23 on the R&B charts and number 7 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.[5] Their version also spent four weeks at number 2 on the Easy Listening chart[6] and reached number 7 in Canada.[7]
  • A cover of the song was created for the X-Files episode "Home".[8][9] The reason a cover was used rather than the original was because when Mathis read the episode's screenplay and saw its graphic content, he refused to allow his version to be used in the episode, thus necessitating a cover. David Nutter, an X-Files producer, originally planned to record the cover himself as he also had a background in music but in the end, another singer was hired because he sounded more like Mathis than Nutter did. The episode's director Kim Manners explains his reason for wanting to use the song because "certain songs [like 'Wonderful! Wonderful!'] have a creepy, icky quality that none of us have really openly acknowledged".[10]
  • American alternative rock band Sebadoh covered the song for their 1991 album Sebadoh III.[11]

References

  1. "Wonderful! Wonderful! - Sonny Rollins | Song Info". AllMusic. Retrieved 2016-07-21.
  2. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits: Eighth Edition. Record Research. p. 405.
  3. Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 253. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
  4. Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 596.
  5. Whitburn, Joel (1993). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961–1993. Record Research. p. 244.
  6. "CHUM Hit Parade, September 30, 1963". Chumtribute.com. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
  7. Cornell (1998). X-Treme Possibilities. p. 286.
  8. Delasara (2000). PopLit, PopCult and The X-Files: A Critical Exploration. p. 125.
  9. "www.allmusic.com". allmusic.com. Retrieved January 3, 2024.



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