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1. All the time in the world
2. What a wonderful world


Louis Daniel Armstrong also known by the nickname Satchmo or Pops (New Orleans, August 4, 1901 - New York, July 6, 1971) was a trumpet player and singer.

Armstrong was one of the most famous jazz musicians of the twentieth century, reaching the fame initially as a trumpeter, but was also one of the most important jazz singers, especially towards the end of his career. It is considered one of the largest and most influential personalities in the music of the '900, and its interpretative innovations have enabled the Jazz to evolve and expand, helping it to become a famous kind in the world.

Armstrong stated that he was born July 4, 1900, date noted in many biographies. Although he died in 1971, it was only in the mid-eighties that his real date of birth (4 August 1901) was discovered through an examination of baptismal documents. He was born into a poor family in New Orleans and was the grandson of slaves. He spent his childhood in a residential suburb of New Orleans, known as "Back of Town". His father, William Armstrong (1881-1922), abandoned the family when Louis was an infant and left with another woman. His mother, Mayann Armstrong (1886-1942), so let Louis and his sister Beatrice Armstrong Collins (1903-1987) to his grandmother, Josephine Armstrong, and sometimes to Uncle Isaac. Five years after he returned to live with his mother and his relatives, and he saw his father only in a few circumstances. He attended the Fisk School for boys. He brought home little money by collecting paper and finding food scraps that sold at various restaurants but this was not enough to avert the mother from prostitution Armstrong grew up in the bottom of the social ladder, in a town with a strong racial discrimination, but also passionate about that kind of music which at the time was called "ragtime" and not yet "jazz". Despite having had a difficult youth, (ended up in reform school very young), Armstrong did not consider those years as negative and drew inspiration. Armstrong said in an interview: "Every time I close my eyes to blow my trumpet, I look at the heart of good old New Orleans ... he gave me something to live for."

On 19 March 1918 Louis married a girl of the State of Louisiana, Daisy Parker. They adopted a three-year-old boy, Clarence Armstrong, whose mother, cousin, Louis, died after giving birth. The small Clarence was mentally disabled (result of an accident at a very young age) and Louis would spend the rest of his life to take care of him. [9] The marriage with Daisy failed quickly and they separated. Daisy died shortly after the separation.

Through various exhibitions, musical abilities of Armstrong matured. Twenty years could read music, and began to be included in various trumpet solos, becoming one of the first jazz musicians who had this ability, but managed to enter, in the solos, his personality and his style. He created its own sound, unique and highly characterized, and also began to sing in his performances .. It was in 1922 that Armstrong joined the great migration in the city of Chicago, where he was invited by his mentor, Joe "King" Oliver to join the band of the latter. He would have earned enough with his music no longer having to make do with various activities as. In those years there was in Chicago a great economic boom and the city was literally full of job opportunities for blacks.

In the early twenty Oliver's band it was the most important of Chicago, in a same period the city was the capital of most of New Orleans jazz. Armstrong made his first disc as a playing second cornet in Oliver's band. Excited of his life in Chicago, she started writing nostalgic letters to his friends in New Orleans. Armstrong's reputation grew, so much so that he was challenged in various competitions by people who wanted to show people the new phenomenon. Armstrong made his first records at Gennett Records and all'Okeh Records. At that time, he met Hoagy Carmichael (with whom he later collaborated) that was presented by Bix Beiderbecke, who had his own band.

Armstrong died July 6, 1971 of a heart attack at the age of sixty-nine  eleven months after playing the famous show in Empire Room of the Waldorf-Astoria. Shortly before his death he said: "I think I've had a good life. I have been praying for what I could not have and I've had about all I wanted because I worked there." At death he lived in Queens, New York City. He was buried in the Flushing Cemetery, Flushing.

At the funeral attended Nelson Rockefeller, then governor of the State of New York, John Lindsay, then mayor of New York, and personalities from the world of music and entertainment such as Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald, Guy Lombardo, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Pearl Bailey, Count Basie, Harry James, Frank Sinatra, Ed Sullivan, Earl Wilson, Alan King, Johnny Carson, David Frost, Merv Griffin, Dick Cavett and Bobby Hackett. Peggy Lee, one of the favorite singers of Louis, he sang The Lord's Prayer at the funeral service, while Fred Robbins, an old friend of Louis, gave his praise to Satchmo.
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"We Have All the Time in the World" is a James Bond theme and popular song sung by Louis Armstrong. Its music was composed by John Barry and the lyrics by Hal David. It is a secondary musical theme in the 1969 Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service, the title theme being the instrumental "On Her Majesty's Secret Service," also composed by Barry. The song title is taken from Bond's final words in both the novel and the film, spoken after his wife's death. Armstrong was too ill to play his trumpet.  Barry chose Armstrong because he felt he could "deliver the title line with irony."

The song was released as a single in both the US and the UK to coincide with the release of the film in December 1969, but did not chart in either market. However, the recording became a hit in the UK twenty-five years later, in 1994, as a result of a Guinness beer commercial, after My Bloody Valentine chose to cover it for charity. Armstrong's version was then re-released on vinyl and CD and reached #3 in the UK Singles Chart and #4 in Ireland. In 2005, a BBC survey found that it was the third most popular love song played at weddings.

In addition to My Bloody Valentine, "We Have All the Time in the World" has been covered by Iggy Pop, Fun Lovin' Criminals, Vic Damone, Michael Ball, Giorgia Todrani, The Puppini Sisters, Tindersticks, The Pale Fountains, Shirley Bassey (for a later withdrawn album of Bond themes), Thomas White, and Alfie Boe. Iggy Pop's version plays during the end credits of the film The Jacket.

John Barry cited "We Have All The Time In The World" as one of his favourite Bond compositions, saying it was the finest piece of music he had written for a Bond movie, and also because of the pleasure of working with Louis Armstrong.
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"What a Wonderful World" is a song written by Bob Thiele (as "George Douglas") and George David Weiss. It was first recorded by Louis Armstrong 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 Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999. The publishing for this song is controlled by Memory Lane Music Group, Carlin Music Corp. and BMG Rights Management.

The song was initially offered to Tony Bennett, who turned it down. Thereafter, it was offered to Louis Armstrong. George Weiss recounts in the book Off the Record: Songwriters on Songwriting by Graham Nash that he wrote the song specifically for Louis Armstrong. 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 Larry Newton 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 UK Singles Chart. In the US, the song hit No. 116 on the Billboard Bubbling Under 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 classical music label. The song made Louis Armstrong the oldest male to top the UK Singles Chart, at sixty-six years and ten months old.[1] Armstrong's record was broken in 2009 when a cover version of "Islands in the Stream" recorded for Comic Relief—which included the 68-year-old Tom Jones—reached number one in that chart. Tony Bennett did go on to cover "What A Wonderful World" several times, as in 2003 with k.d. lang, paying homage to Bennett's friend Armstrong.

ABC Records' European distributor EMI forced ABC to issue a What a Wonderful World album in 1968 (catalogue number ABCS-650). It did not chart in the US, due to ABC not promoting it,[6] but charted in the UK where it was issued by Stateside Records with catalogue number SSL 10247 and peaked on the British chart at No. 37.

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, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and was repeated for BBC's 1981 TV series of the same. In 1988, Armstrong's recording was featured in the film Good Morning, Vietnam, in which DJ Adrian Cronauer (portrayed in the film by Robin Williams) played it on the radio in 1965—two years before it was recorded—and was re-released as a single, hitting No. 32 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart in February 1988. The single charted at number one for the fortnight ending June 27, 1988 on the Australian chart. It is also the closing song for the 1995 movie 12 Monkeys.

In 2001, rappers Ghostface Killah, Raekwon and The Alchemist 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 Gerard E. Lynch 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 US after it was released digitally.
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"Basin Street Blues" is a song often performed by Dixieland jazz bands, written by Spencer Williams in 1928 and recorded that year by Louis Armstrong.  The verse with the lyric "Won't you come along with me/To the Mississippi..." was later added by Glenn Miller and Jack Teagarden.

The Basin Street of the title refers to the main street of Storyville, the red-light district of early 20th-century New Orleans, north of the French Quarter. It became a red light district in 1897.
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"If I Could Be with You (One Hour Tonight)" is a popular song.

The music was written by James P. Johnson, the lyrics by Henry Creamer. The song was published in 1926 and first recorded by Clarence Williams' Blue Five with vocalist Eva Taylor in 1927.  It was popularized by the 1930 recording by McKinney's Cotton Pickers, who used it as their theme song  and by Louis Armstrong's record for Okeh Records (catalogue No.41448), both of which featured in the charts of 1930.
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"Hello, Dolly!" is the title song of the popular 1964 musical of the same name. Louis Armstrong's version was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001.

The music and lyrics were written by Jerry Herman, who also wrote the scores for many other popular musicals including Mame and La Cage aux Folles.
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"Jeepers Creepers" is a popular 1938 song and jazz standard.

The music was written by Harry Warren, and the lyrics by Johnny Mercer, for the 1938 Warner Brothers movie Going Places. It was premiered by Louis Armstrong and has since been covered by many other artists.
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"When You're Smiling" is a popular song written by Larry Shay, Mark Fisher and Joe Goodwin in 1928. It was made famous by Louis Armstrong, who recorded it at least three times, in 1929, 1932, and 1956. Duke Ellington also recorded it several times earlier in his career.

Many other recordings exist, for example those by Billie Holiday with Lester Young and Teddy Wilson in 1938, Studies in Swing number three, Louis Prima, Frank Sinatra, Julia Lee, Nat King Cole, Erroll Garner, and Patti Page. Cliff Bruner brought it to the country charts in 1939.

It was adopted by Leicester City F.C. as the club anthem, and can be heard at many of the team's games. In 1961, Judy Garland performed the song at the Judy at Carnegie Hall concert. Andy Williams released a version on his 1963 album, Days of Wine and Roses and Other TV Requests. Dean Martin also sang it, sometimes parodying it as "When You're Drinkin'".

Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra, with Billie Holiday, recorded this classic on January 6, 1938, in New York City for Brunswick/Columbia, with Teddy Wilson on piano, Benny Morton on trombone, Buck Clayton on trumpet, Lester Young on tenor sax, Freddie Green on guitar, Walter Page on bass and Jo Jones on drums.

Rufus Wainwright recorded the song for his 2007 album Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall, and Caroline Henderson for her album No.8 (2008).

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"On the Sunny Side of the Street" is a 1930 song composed by Jimmy McHugh with lyrics by Dorothy Fields. Some authors say that Fats Waller was the composer, but he sold the rights to the song.  It was introduced in the Broadway musical Lew Leslie's International Revue starring Harry Richman and Gertrude Lawrence.

Richman and Ted Lewis enjoyed hit records with the song in 1930.
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What A Wonderful World
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