50-Year-Old Songs: Wild World
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (86707)
United States
August 21, 2020 10:53am CST
What goes well with a Devo song? How about this?? Here’s the final “regular” song from 1970 before I start my top ten list for the 50-year-old songs. And don’t worry, you know this. Raise a cup of Geritol to this one if you bought the album back then!
Wild World - Cat Stevens
I was reading the background and had to laugh at some of the contemporary reviews of Tea For the Tillerman, now considered one of Cat Stevens’ greatest albums (if not his best). Too mellow? Too “introspective”? Ha, this was two years before Jackson Browne came around! 
Now the critics rave about this album. In fact, Yusuf recently re-recorded this album. That’s how classic it is.
And this song? As I’ve said about so many of these songs that are half a century old this year, people who weren’t born then know this and are moved by it.
A true classic from the singer/songwriter era of rock.
Wild World
Written by Cat Stevens
Recorded by Cat Stevens
From Tea for the Tillerman, 1970
Hope you have a lot of nice things to wear:
Now the critics rave about this album. In fact, Yusuf recently re-recorded this album. That’s how classic it is.
And this song? As I’ve said about so many of these songs that are half a century old this year, people who weren’t born then know this and are moved by it.
A true classic from the singer/songwriter era of rock.
Wild World
Written by Cat Stevens
Recorded by Cat Stevens
From Tea for the Tillerman, 1970
Hope you have a lot of nice things to wear:
One of my favourite songs, delivered by Cat Stevens in 1971
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7 responses
@andriaperry (118793)
• Anniston, Alabama
21 Aug 20
I love this series, I know many of these songs, if not all.
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@cherriefic (10399)
• Philippines
21 Aug 20
It's a perfect song for this year too!
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@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
22 Aug 20
for a time he had renounced all the songs he did as Cat Stevens, it really made me sad.
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@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
22 Aug 20
@FourWalls yeah that was hard for a while. I love his stuff.
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@LindaOHio (222417)
• United States
21 Aug 20
Didn't recognize it by the title. Had to play it. Of course I remember this one!
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