• • 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). Armstrong's recording was inducted in the in 1999.

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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.

Greenluma Steam Cracked. 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.

ABC Records' European distributor forced ABC to issue a What a Wonderful World album in 1968 (catalogue number ABCS-650). It did not chart in the United States, due to ABC not promoting it, but charted in the UK where it was issued by with catalogue number SSL 10247 and peaked on the British chart at No. The song gradually became something of a standard and reached a new level of popularity. In 1978, Armstrong's 1967 recording was featured in the closing scenes of the first series of BBC radio's cult hit,, and was repeated for BBC's 1981. In 1988, Armstrong's recording appeared in the film (despite the film being set in 1965 — two years before it was recorded) and was re-released as a single, hitting No. 32 on the chart in February 1988. The single charted at number one for the fortnight ending June 27, 1988 on the.

It is also the closing song for the 1995 movie. In 2001, rappers, and released 'The Forest,' a song that begins with three lines of lyric adapted from 'What a Wonderful World', altered to become 'an invitation to get high' on marijuana. The rappers and their record company, Sony Music Entertainment, were sued by the owners of 'What a Wonderful World,' Abilene Music. The suit was thrown out of court after Judge determined that the altered lyric was indisputably a parody, transforming the uplifting original message to a new one with a darker nature. By April 2014, Louis Armstrong's 1967 recording had sold 2,173,000 downloads in the United States after it was released digitally. Charts and certifications [ ] Peak positions [ ] Chart (1967/68) Peak position Australia 29 Austria () 1 Belgium ( Flanders) 6 Denmark 2 Germany () 6 Ireland 2 Netherlands () 15 Netherlands (MediaMarkt) 14 New Zealand 15 Norway () 6 Switzerland () 7 U.K.

Singles Chart 1 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 116 U.S. Adult Contemporary (Billboard) 12 Chart (1976) Peak position Italy () 11 Chart (1988) Peak position Australia () 1 Belgium ( Flanders) 7 Belgium ( Flanders) 1 Canada () 13 Ireland 30 Netherlands () 5 Netherlands (MediaMarkt) 2 New Zealand 8 Poland 22 U.S. (Billboard) 32 U.S. Adult Contemporary (Billboard) 7 U.S.

(Radio & Records) 37 U.S. (Cashbox) 37 U.S.

(Rock on the Net - ARC Weekly Top 40) 28 Certifications [ ] Region Italy () Gold Notable versions [ ] • 1967:, million-selling original version • 1989:, on his album of the same name (peaked at No. 73 on the chart) • 1992:, single sung with; in 2005 was also published on the album • 1993:, version ( with ') on the album (sold over 2.5 million copies in the U.S. And Canada alone) • 1999:, on her platinum release of the same name, which also spawned a book and video (the album reached No. 1 on the US CCM chart, No. 4 on the US Country chart, and No. 38 on the top 200) • 2002: 's posthumous version was used for the ending credits of 's film.