Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World" and another rendition of the same song in which the singer Eva Cassidy slows the tempo down quite a bit, giving the lyrics time to slowly unfold. She brings magic to an already wonderful song.
To answer cynics who criticized the song for being overly simplistic and naive, looking as it does only at wonderful things while ignoring horrors such as wars, prejudice, poverty, environmental degradation, and other acts of human cruelty, Louis Armstrong put out a recording in which he did a brief monologue before starting to sing. He reiterated that the world is indeed wonderful, but it's the things that people do to it and to each other that aren't always so. Well said, sir!
To answer cynics who criticized the song for being overly simplistic and naive, looking as it does only at wonderful things while ignoring horrors such as wars, prejudice, poverty, environmental degradation, and other acts of human cruelty, Louis Armstrong put out a recording in which he did a brief monologue before starting to sing. He reiterated that the world is indeed wonderful, but it's the things that people do to it and to each other that aren't always so. Well said, sir!
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Photo location: Tum Thong beach, Prachuab Khirikan province.
Photo location: Tum Thong beach, Prachuab Khirikan province.
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