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"Wonderful World, Beautiful People" was released by Trojan Records on October 24, 1969. [1]The song was composed by Jimmy Cliff and produced by Leslie Kong.The song is about what the world could be.
James Chambers, OM (born 30 July 1944), known professionally as Jimmy Cliff, is a Jamaican ska, rocksteady, reggae and soul musician, multi-instrumentalist, singer, and actor. He is the only living reggae musician to hold the Order of Merit , the highest honour that can be granted by the Jamaican government for achievements in the arts and ...
The Jimmy Cliff song was famously used in the 1972 film The Harder They Come. In 1990, the song was used on the album Sebastian from The Little Mermaid as most of the songs were performed by Samuel E. Wright as Sebastian the crab. Wright also performed this version in Sebastian's Caribbean Jambore.
During filming, Cliff came up with the line "the harder they come". Henzell thought it would make a good title for the film, and asked Cliff to write and record a theme song for it. [2] The actual recording of the track, at Dynamic Sounds, was filmed for inclusion in the movie. Cliff wrote the melody, and improvised the lyrics.
Jamaican reggae singer Jimmy Cliff recorded a cover of the song for the 1993 movie Cool Runnings. [22] It was released as a single in October 1993 by Chaos label, reaching No. 18 and 14 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and Cash Box Top 100. It was Cliff's first single to make the Hot 100 in 25 years and is his highest-charting single in the United ...
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Some anti-war songs lament aspects of wars, while others patronize war.Most promote peace in some form, while others sing out against specific armed conflicts. Still others depict the physical and psychological destruction that warfare causes to soldiers, innocent civilians, and humanity as a whole.
Cliff recorded "Trapped" as a single that was released in 1972. [1] It was released on Island Records and backed with "Struggling Man", [2] although some websites list the two reversed in some markets (the record saw release in areas that included the United Kingdom, Ghana, and the Caribbean region, but not the United States). [3]