What a wonderful world - louis armstrong
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What a Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong 1968
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"What a Wonderful World" is a song written by Bob Thiele (as George Douglas) and George David Weiss. It wasfirst recorded by Louis Armstrong and released as a single in 1968. Thiele and Weiss were both prominent in the music world (Thiele as a producer and Weiss as acomposer/performer). Armstrong's recording was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999. The publishing for this song is controlled byMemory Lane Music Group, Carlin MusicCorp., and Bug Music, Inc..
History
Intended as an antidote for the increasingly racially and politically charged climate of everyday life in the United States, thesong also has a hopeful, optimistic tone with regard to the future, with reference to babies being born into the world and having much to look forward to. The song wasinitially offered to Tony Bennett, who turned the song down.[1] Thereafter, it was offered to Louis Armstrong. The song was not initially a hit in the United States,where it sold fewer than 1,000 copies because the head of ABC Records did not like the song and so did not promote it, but was a major success in the United Kingdom,reaching number one on the UK Singles Chart. In the U.S. the song hit #116 on the Bubbling Under Charts. It was also the biggest-selling single of 1968 in the UK where it wasalso among the last pop singles issued by HMV Records before becoming an exclusive classical music label.[2] The song made Louis Armstrong the oldest male to top thecharts, at sixty-six years and ten months old. Armstrong's record was broken in 2009 when the cover of Islands in the Stream recorded for Comic Relief reached number one.
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"What a Wonderful World" is a song written by Bob Thiele (as George Douglas) and George David Weiss. It wasfirst recorded by Louis Armstrong and released as a single in 1968. Thiele and Weiss were both prominent in the music world (Thiele as a producer and Weiss as acomposer/performer). Armstrong's recording was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999. The publishing for this song is controlled byMemory Lane Music Group, Carlin MusicCorp., and Bug Music, Inc..
History
Intended as an antidote for the increasingly racially and politically charged climate of everyday life in the United States, thesong also has a hopeful, optimistic tone with regard to the future, with reference to babies being born into the world and having much to look forward to. The song wasinitially offered to Tony Bennett, who turned the song down.[1] Thereafter, it was offered to Louis Armstrong. The song was not initially a hit in the United States,where it sold fewer than 1,000 copies because the head of ABC Records did not like the song and so did not promote it, but was a major success in the United Kingdom,reaching number one on the UK Singles Chart. In the U.S. the song hit #116 on the Bubbling Under Charts. It was also the biggest-selling single of 1968 in the UK where it wasalso among the last pop singles issued by HMV Records before becoming an exclusive classical music label.[2] The song made Louis Armstrong the oldest male to top thecharts, at sixty-six years and ten months old. Armstrong's record was broken in 2009 when the cover of Islands in the Stream recorded for Comic Relief reached number one.
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