Louis Armstrong – what a wonderful world
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Louis Armstrong was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America and was a jazz trumpeter and singer. He was instantly recognised through the way he would manipulate lyrics and melodies of a song to place an expressive quality to it. He certainly did this with What a Wonderful World and this is why his version is still popular till today. This song was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999.
What we like
- The song itself is delivered perfectly by Louis Armstrong. There have been other great artists who have since sung this song. As they say, the original is often the best – there is only one Louis Armstrong
Mind experience
- The song serves to remind us that we have a wonderful world to appreciate. We can look to even the simplest things of life and still see it as a wonderful world. And with the future, there is always the hope of growth in a new generation
To think about
- 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
Map the mind musician’s birthplace
Map the photograph location
Mourning Dove – Hum-isha-ma – mission
“… everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease a herb to cure it, and every person a mission. This is the Indian theory of existence.”
Reinhold Niebuhr – serenity prayer
“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can,
And wisdom to know the difference.”
Bob Hope – laugh
“I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.”
Aboriginal Proverb – visitors
“We are all just visitors to this time, this place. We are all just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love… And then we return home.”
