Original video located here. Accessed 28th November 2010
Song title: What a Wonderful World
Artist: Louis Armstrong
Year: 1967
Why I like this song:
It seems that this song has become more associated with being treated in a sarcastic manner: I have certainly seen it being used to accompany footage of war, death, explosions and other calamities (best known example being in the movie Fahrenheit 9/11).
But if divorce ourselves from such a perception, this song has a degree of timelessness that truly makes it immune to the ravages of time and being heard countless times. Not many songs can do that. And even less can rise above years of cynicism.
Besides give this song credit: It gave Satchmo a number one hot in several countries when he was in his late sixties.
What have you done?
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