[Dixielandjazz] Oh yeah

[Robert Ringwald]

Pat Ladd wrote:

>I am all for a good rabble rousing audience participation idea like the Oh yeah thing and I am in generally in favour of anything to promote` Satchmo
> .   
> However. Is it not possible to find something other than this awful, horrible, treacly, sentimental slushy nonsense, Wonderful World?
> There are thousands of tunes associated with Louis do we HAVE to pick on this  yucky tripe.?


Pat,

I know this subject has been beaten to death here on DJML.  However, I must reply.  

IMO- The song "What a Wonderful World" is a beautiful song.  The tune is nice but the words are really great.  

I do the song well, if I do say so myself.  At least the audiences seem to think so.  

However, Armstrong does a great job on it.  Of course, there is nothing that Louis has ever done that he does not do well on.  His manager had him doing some pretty strange things, but he always shined on them.  

--Bob Ringwald