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"What a Wonderful World" was written by songwriters Bob Thiele and George David Weiss, first performed by Louis Armstrong, and released as a single in early fall 1967. Intended as an antidote for the increasingly racially and politically charged climate in the U.S. (and written specifically for Armstrong, who had broad crossover appeal), the song details the singer's delight in the simple enjoyment of everyday life. The song also has a hopeful, optimistic tone with regard to the future, with reference to babies being born into the world and having much to which to look forward. The song was not initially a hit in the States, where it sold less than 1,000 copies, but was a major success in the UK, reaching number one in the UK singles chart. Bob Thiele (July 27, 1922 - January 30, 1996) was an American record producer. ...
George David Weiss (born April 9, 1921) was a Jewish-American songwriter. ...
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1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ...
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The opposite of pessimism, optimism is a lifeview where one looks upon the world as a positive place. ...
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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 song gradually became something of a standard and reached a new level of popularity. In 1985 a part of the song was used in The Runner (Davandeh), a famous Iranian movie. It was included in the soundtrack for the film Good Morning, Vietnam in 1987. In the film, the song plays over a montage of bombings and other violence (similar to the use of the song "We'll Meet Again" in the film Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb). This is one of the earliest examples of the song being used ironically, which has become something of a cliché in film and television. Year 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian calendar). ...
The Runner is a film by Amir Naderi, one of the major directors of Iranian Cinema before and after the Iranian Revolution. ...
Good Morning, Vietnam is a 1987 comedy/drama film set in Saigon during the Vietnam War, based on the career of Adrian Cronauer, a disc jockey on Armed Forces Radio Saigon (AFRS), who proves hugely popular with the troops serving in South Vietnam, but infuriates his superiors with what they...
Year 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar). ...
Well Meet Again is a 1939 song made famous by British singer Vera Lynn with music written by Ross Parker and words by Hughie Charles. ...
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The song was featured as the theme for the first season of the popular 1990s sitcom Family Matters. It was also used in the film Meet Joe Black and twice in Twelve Monkeys, once emitting from a radio, and then over the ending credits (again ironically). It was sung by Willie Nelson for the 1996 movie Michael. A Willie Nelson version also was used for the "Don't Mess With Texas" anti-littering public service announcement campaign. For the band, see 1990s (band). ...
Family Matters is an American sitcom about a middle-class, African-American family living in Chicago. ...
Meet Joe Black is a 1998 remake of the 1934 film, Death Takes a Holiday, starring Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, and Claire Forlani. ...
Twelve Monkeys is a 1995 science fiction film written by David and Janet Peoples and directed by Terry Gilliam. ...
Michael is the title of an American fantasy motion picture released in 1996. ...
The phrase Dont Mess with Texas is a slogan for the Texas Department of Transportation designed to reduce littering on Texas roadways used as part of a statewide advertising campaign in 1986. ...
Litter in the habitat of a lizard. ...
The Louis Armstrong version was also used during a sequence in Michael Moore's film Bowling for Columbine, where it accompanies scenes of violence in a montage about United States intervention in international affairs, as well as having the Joey Ramone cover playing over the ending credits. In the 2005 film, Madagascar it appears as a background song. On the program Pirate Radio (airing in Nashville, Tennessee), an acoustic guitar version was used weekly as a music bed; it was also used for the end credits of the last episode in the first radio series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and later for the closing titles of the corresponding television episode, it also appeared in the movie clip for the film (but was not used in the movie). It was later used in the first teaser for the Hitchhiker's film, lasting only one stanza before the Earth explodes. It has also been used ironically as the theme music to the BBC series A Life of Grime, and as the closing theme to one series of Grumpy Old Men, in a version performed by the cast of the programme. The Louis Armstrong version was used also in the 2004 Japanese film Swing Girls during a scene where the main characters are chased by a wild boar. It also featured in the sixth episode of the BBC/Kudos 1973-set crime drama, Life on Mars. Michael Francis Moore (born April 23, 1954) is an American political-activist, a film director, author, social commentator, and political humorist. ...
Bowling for Columbine is a documentary film written, directed, produced by and starring Michael Moore. ...
Joey Ramone (May 19, 1951 – April 15, 2001), born as Jeffry Ross Hyman, was a Jewish American vocalist and songwriter best known for his work in the legendary punk rock group the Ramones. ...
Pirate Radio was a substantially controversial radio program that aired Friday nights from Midnight to 1 AM on T-FM (90. ...
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Official language(s) English Capital Nashville Largest city Memphis Largest metro area Nashville Area Ranked 36th - Total 42,169 sq mi (109,247 km²) - Width 120 miles (195 km) - Length 440 miles (710 km) - % water 2. ...
The cover of the first novel in the Hitchhikers series, from a late 1990s printing. ...
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is a science fiction comedy film based on the book of the same name by Douglas Adams. ...
In poetry, a stanza is a unit within a larger poem. ...
A Life of Grime (play on the expression A Life of Crime) is a BBC docusoap following the work of environmental health inspectors. ...
Grumpy Old Men was: The title of a 1993 movie, Grumpy Old Men The title of a 2000s BBC2 television show, Grumpy Old Men This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
Swing Girls (スウィングガールズ; Suwingu gaaruzu) is a 2004 comedy film co-written and directed by the Japanese filmmaker Shinobu Yaguchi about the efforts of a group of high school girls to form a jazz band. ...
Binomial name Sus scrofa Linnaeus, 1758 The Wild Boar (Sus scrofa) is the wild ancestor of the domesticated pig. ...
The British Broadcasting Corporation, which is usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion. ...
Kudos Film & Television is a British television production company, which has produced drama series for most of the major television networks in the UK. Its best-known series are the spy drama Spooks (known as MI5 in the United States) and con-artist thriller series Hustle for BBC One and...
Life on Mars is an International Emmy-winning British television drama series, which was first shown on BBC One in January and February 2006. ...
Clear Channel included "What a Wonderful World" on a list of songs that might be inappropriate for airplay in the period just after the September 11, 2001 attacks. This is a list of songs deemed inappropriate by Clear Channel following the September 11, 2001 attacks. ...
The World Trade Center on fire The September 11, 2001 attacks were a series of coordinated terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001. ...
In recent years, the song has come to be associated with the Christmas season (although it has no holiday or seasonal content in its lyrics). In 2006, XM Satellite Radio added "What a Wonderful World" to its Holiday/Christmas rotation, as did many terrestrial radio stations in the U.S. Numerous recording artists have covered the song for inclusion on their Christmas-themed albums, including Newsong and LeAnn Rimes. Christmas is an annual holiday that celebrates the birth of Jesus. ...
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In radio broadcasting, a spin is a single play of a song. ...
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Newsong is a Contemporary Christian Music group that was founded in 1981, at Morningside Baptist Church in Valdosta, Georgia[1]. Throughout the years they have had 17 #1 singles and six Dove Award nominations. ...
LeAnn Rimes (born Margaret LeAnn Rimes August 28, 1982 in Jackson, Mississippi) is an American country music singer. ...
A version can be found on the dance simulation game Dance Dance Revolution SuperNOVA. This version is by "Beatbox vs DJ Miko Dance Dance Revolution SuperNOVA (Dancing Stage SuperNOVA in Europe) is the latest arcade game in the Dance Dance Revolution series of music video games. ...
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