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Louis Armstrong:
What a wonderful world
Distinctive gravelly voice
It was only the gravelly voiced
Louis Armstrong who could have made a hit of the song ‘What A Wonderful
World’. With his fascinating voice, Armstrong or Satchmo as he was
fondly called, gave a wealth of meaning to the simple lyrics to make it
into a global No. 1 hit which was on everybodys’ lips young or old in
the sixties. Today, the song is an evergreen in the book of standards.
Composed by Bob Thiele, George Weiss and George Douglas the song is
still on a long lease of popularity. Who doesn’t know Satchmo? An
American jazz singer and trumpeter from New Orleans, Louisana, Armstrong
was born on July 4 1901 and was renowned for his charismatic stage
presence and deep instantly recognisable voice almost as much of his
trumpet-playing.
 Armstrong’s influence extends well beyond jazz and by the end of his
career in the 1960s he was widely regarded as a profound influence on
popular music in general. George Weiss who was one of the three who
composed the song is no more and so too Louis Armstrong the singer who
made the song, into a major international hit.
I see trees of green, red roses too
I see them bloom for me and you
And I think to myself what a wonderful world.
I see skies of blue and clouds of white
The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night
And I think to myself what a wonderful world.
The colours of the rainbow so pretty in the sky
Are also on the faces of people going by
I see friends shaking hands saying how do you do
They’re really saying I love you.
I hear babies crying, I watch them grow
They’ll learn much more than I’ll never know
And I think to myself what a wonderful world
Yes I think to myself what a wonderful world
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