What a Wonderful World, by Louis Armstrong

Released in single 1968, to music What a wonderful world ficou consecrated to the voice of the North American jazz singer Louis Armstrong. A composition, however, not his authorship of it, is about a rare child in partnership between Bob Thiele (1922-1996) and George David Weiss (1921-2010).

When it was launched for the first time, during or out of 1967, it was my intuition to calm your excited spirits due to social, political and racial conflicts in the United States.

Letter e analyze

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 colors 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

A composition created by Thiele e Weiss intends to show what is beautiful in life and many times it is lost during pressa da nossa rotina. Musicians call attention to simple details of everyday nosso like as cores do céu, das trees, rainbows and deixam clear for you that beauty can be found in my day to day.

Com um olhar extremely otimista e solar, or that a song face is tempting to show or "copo meio cheio", as it gives life, to the solar perspective of the planet.

A letter começa transmitting as cores and a beleza da natureza,

I see trees of green, (Old green trees)
Red roses too (Rosas vermelhas também)

A nature mentioned in the song is the one that we can find not every day, walking on the street, smelling for a showcase of a qualquer floriculture. Thiele and Weiss escolhem elements very good and corrected, precisely to show that we all have access to them, there is enough to see them.

Or eu-lyrical observes the process of growth of nature, or cycle of life, of the development of plants.

As he knows that the majority of people do not have small daily miracles, the sublinha that repairs beauty in his own name, but also two others:

I see them bloom (Vejo-as florescer)
For me and you (Para mim e para você)
And I think to myself, (E eu penso comigo mesmo)
What a wonderful world

Besides emphasizing the exuberances of nature, the maturing of life, and passing in the magazine as belezas do clima (or blue sky, as new brancas, or colorful rainbow), a sublinha North American song we meet a human being, a communion between friends, a partilha between people who love each other bem:

see friends shaking hands, (Eu vejo amigos se complrimentando)
Saying: "How do you do?" (Saying: "Como você vai?")
They're really saying
"I love you" ("Eu I love you")

Além de olhar for the present and finding beauty not here and no now, or eu-lyrical look or future. He repairs us babies and observes or privilege to be able to assist or growth and or maturity of the next gerações, which will produce much more progress than at us:

I hear babies crying, (Eu ouço bebês chorando)
I watch them grow (eu os vejo crescendo)
They'll learn much more, (They will learn much more)
than I'll never know (do que eu jamais vou saber)

Sit down, to music sung by Armstrong and extremely solar, otimistic, positive and transmits over all a message of love, hope and belief in melhores days.

Translation

Old green trees
Vermelhas roses também
Vejo-as florescer
For me and for you
I thought with myself
What a wonderful world
Eu old or blue sky
E nuvens brancas
Or abençoado clear day
A sacred dark night
I thought with myself
What a wonderful world
As cores do arco-iris
So pretty no ceu
They are also roast us
You give people to pass
Eu old friends are complimenting
Saying: "Como você vai?"
They are really saying
"I love you"
Eu ouço babies chorando
eu you vejo crescendo
They are going to learn a lot more
what eu jamais vou know
I thought with myself
What a wonderful world
Sim, I thought with myself
What a wonderful world

On or launch of music

Despite having been disclosed to the United States, the music performed by Armstrong was not initially very successful in America. O director of the recording machine not intended to be a song and practically not to be promoted.

What a wonderful world I saw it first on the other side of the ocean, not the United Kingdom, and it returned to its country of origin as a hit.

We lecture that Armstrong was not a nenhum garoto when the song was recorded. The singer had already completed 66 years when he received music composed by Thiele and Weiss especially for him.

Both Thiele quanto Weiss were only known in the universe of American music. Thiele was a producer of ABC Records and Weiss helped compose a few verses of the famous The Lion Sleeps Tonight.

Or single that sheltered What a wonderful world It was launched during a very delicate political period. The North-American population feared a civil war and the escalation of violence it was evident that we attacked Jewish loyalties.

The composers Thiele e Weiss e escolheram:

"The perfect ambassador to restore relationships between white people like them and the Afro-American community"

To music What a wonderful world ganhou highest visibility in America aposter been used as soundtrack not film Good morning vietnam, Director Barry Levinson.

Or using music as a background theme in a film about a violent war was evidently a sarcastic way of provoking an audience.

Trilha sonora do film Madagascar

Released in June 2005, or animated film Madagascar Trazia to classic Armstrong music as sonorous trilha. What a wonderful world illustrates the adventures of leão Alex with his friends Marty (a zebra), Melman (a giraffe) and Gloria (a hippopotamus).

Gravação feita em 1967

Uma das first apresentações da music starred by Louis Armstrong is recorded and available online. It is about a Pérola from 1967, when the song was recently released:

Quem foi Louis Armstrong

Central figure for North American jazz, Louis Armstrong was born on August 4, 1901 in Louisiana, United States. Of poor origin, or young, he was raised pela mãe (Mayann) and had to abandon his school to earn a living.

I was working for the Karnofsky family who, as a young man, managed to collect money to buy their first cornet.

On the eve of the year-novo 1912, Louis was imprisoned and sent to a correctional house. So he learned to play the cornet with rigor and discipline.

He became the leader of the Brass Band da Waif and a professional musician. Armstrong received or sponsorship of Joe "King" Oliver, or greatest cornetist of the city, and also started to work, playing especially on ships.

In 1922, Oliver's godfather asked Armstrong to join his band in Chicago. I am not going to continue to record discs together.

Foi na band that or musician knew that it would be his wife, Lillian Hardin, Oliver's pianist. At the request of his wife, in 1924, Louis began to carry out a career alone.

Other verses of music

Despite the most consecrated version that was made by Armstrong, many artists will reinterpret music adding to his personal touch.

What a wonderful world Já foi so many times it is regraded around the planet that we choose to include here just the most popular verses:

Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

Rod Stewart

Tiago Iorc, opening of the novel Sete Vidas (rede Globo)

James morrison

Sam cooke

Michael Buble

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