The Stash Christmas Album is one of our family standbys; some of the tracks can be found on What A Wonderful Christmas: Louis Armstrong & Friends. Includes Mel Torme, Peggy Lee, Duke Ellington, etc. But if you can play vinyl, that Stash album is great. Alpine Windows Media Player Skin Mode there. Includes Armstrong reading 'The Night Before.

• • Length 2: 21 10982, (as George Douglas) Bob Thiele singles chronology 'Mi va de cantare' (1967) ' What a Wonderful World' (1967) 'Hello Brother' (1968) 'Mi va de cantare' (1967) ' What a Wonderful World' (1967) 'Hello Brother' (1968) ' What a Wonderful World' is a pop ballad written by (as 'George Douglas') and. It was first recorded by and released in 1967 as a single, which topped the pop charts in the United Kingdom. Thiele and Weiss were both prominent in the music world (Thiele as a producer and Weiss as a composer/performer). Bompani Washer Dryer Instruction Manual.

Armstrong's recording was inducted in the in 1999. The publishing for this song is controlled by Memory Lane Music Group, and. This article needs additional citations for. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (September 2017) () The song was initially offered to, who turned it down. Thereafter, it was offered to Louis Armstrong.

George Weiss recounts in the book Off the Record: Songwriters on Songwriting by that he wrote the song specifically for Louis Armstrong. Weiss was inspired by Armstrong's ability to bring people of different races together. The song was not initially a hit in the United States, where it sold fewer than 1,000 copies because ABC Records head did not like the song and therefore did not promote it, but was a major success in the United Kingdom, reaching number one on the.

In the United States, the song hit No. 116 on the Chart. It was also the biggest-selling single of 1968 in the UK where it was among the last pop singles issued by HMV Records before becoming an exclusive label. The song made Louis Armstrong the oldest male to top the, at sixty-six years and ten months old. Armstrong's record was broken in 2009 when a remake of ' recorded for —which included the 68-year-old —reached number one in that chart. Did go on to record 'What A Wonderful World' several times, as in 2003 with, paying homage to Bennett's friend, Armstrong.