‘What A Wonderful World’ — Louis Armstrong
“What a Wonderful World” is on the best song list of Ranker, which ranked number 15, and is composed by Bob Thiele (as “George Douglas”) and George David Weiss, and Louis Armstrong’s as their first recording. It overtook the UK music chart. It reached only No. 32 in the U.S. in 1967 but was brought to the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999.
‘A Change Is Gonna Come’ — Sam Cooke
The 1964 hit “A Change is Gonna Come” of Sam Cooke came out in December 1964 only days after his funeral, being the B-side for his lifetime achievement debut song, “Shake”; he had been shot dead at a motel in Los Angeles. Though not a massive hit like his other song in the chart, it hit its peak in the national pop chart as number 31st and went up to number nine in the chart of R&B.