50s
Happy Wanderer
Saturday, September 26th, 2009“The Happy Wanderer” (“Der fröhliche Wanderer” or “Mein Vater war ein Wandersmann“) is a popular song by Friedrich-Wilhelm Möller written shortly after World War II. It is often mistaken for a German folk song, but it is actually an original composition. His sister Edith Möller conducted a small amateur children’s and youth choir in Schaumburg [...]
Sam Cooke – Wonderful World
Saturday, September 26th, 2009“Wonderful World” (sometimes referred to as “(What a) Wonderful World“, but unrelated to the Louis Armstrong song “What a Wonderful World“) was written in the late 1950s by soul music pioneer Sam Cooke along with songwriters Lou Adler and Herb Alpert, although at first attributed to the pseudonym Barbara Campbell which was [...]