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style='COLOR: ; mso-ascii-font-family: calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: calibri'>Louis
Armstrong: What a Wonderful World </SPAN></P>
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<BR>Fifty Wonderful Years </SPAN></P>
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style='COLOR: ; mso-ascii-font-family: calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: calibri'>by
Alexandra S. Levine</SPAN></P>
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style='COLOR: ; mso-ascii-font-family: calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: calibri'>New
York Times, October 25, 2017</SPAN></P>
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style='COLOR: ; mso-ascii-font-family: calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: calibri'></SPAN> </P>
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style='COLOR: ; mso-ascii-font-family: calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: calibri'>Fifty
years ago, the world heard Louis Armstrong’s flawlessly raspy voice sing “What a
Wonderful World.”</SPAN></P>
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style='COLOR: ; mso-ascii-font-family: calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: calibri'>He
recorded the song in the summer, released it that fall, and in October of 1967,
the melody made it to the Billboard easy-listening charts for the first
time.</SPAN></P>
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style='COLOR: ; mso-ascii-font-family: calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: calibri'></SPAN> </P>
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style='COLOR: ; mso-ascii-font-family: calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: calibri'>The
song was inspired by a quaint, tree-lined slice of 107th Street in Corona,
Queens, where Mr. Armstrong lived in a modest, red brick home for the last three
decades of his life.</SPAN></P>
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style='COLOR: ; mso-ascii-font-family: calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: calibri'></SPAN> </P>
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style='COLOR: ; mso-ascii-font-family: calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: calibri'>If
you visit the location, now the Louis Armstrong House Museum, you’ll hear a
recording of the musician describing the neighborhood:</SPAN></P>
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style='COLOR: ; mso-ascii-font-family: calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: calibri'></SPAN> </P>
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style='COLOR: ; mso-ascii-font-family: calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: calibri'>“I
saw three generations come up on that block. They’re all with the children and
grandchildren, and they all come back to see Uncle Satchmo and Aunt Lucille.
That’s why I can say I hear babies crying, I watch them grow, they’ll learn much
more than I’ll ever know. I got pictures of them when they was 5, 6 and 7 years
old, and it is a wonderful world.”</SPAN></P>
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style='COLOR: ; mso-ascii-font-family: calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: calibri'></SPAN> </P>
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style='COLOR: ; mso-ascii-font-family: calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: calibri'>Ricky
Riccardi, director of the research collections at the museum, said Armstrong
simply would not leave. “The fame continued to grow, the money continued to grow
-- after a while, even Lucille started to get the itch -- but he wanted to be
right here,” Mr. Riccardi said, and at a time of war and racial strife, “the way
the people lived on this one block in Corona was a life lesson for
him.”</SPAN></P>
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style='COLOR: ; mso-ascii-font-family: calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: calibri'>The
museum is celebrating the song’s anniversary with “50 Years of ‘What a Wonderful
World,’” an exhibition that traces the song to when it was first conceived by
the producer Bob Thiele and the songwriter George David Weiss.</SPAN></P>
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style='COLOR: ; mso-ascii-font-family: calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: calibri'></SPAN> </P>
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style='COLOR: ; mso-ascii-font-family: calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: calibri'>Mr.
Weiss’s daughter, Peggy Weiss Self, who was at the Manhattan recording studio on
that day 50 years ago, told us how Armstrong took her “small hand in his large
one and said, ‘So you’re George’s daughter!’”</SPAN></P>
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style='COLOR: ; mso-ascii-font-family: calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: calibri'></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style='COLOR: ; mso-ascii-font-family: calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: calibri'>“He
shook my hand and said, ‘Pleased to meet you,’ and I giggled. He was so joyful
it was contagious.”</SPAN></P>
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style='COLOR: ; mso-ascii-font-family: calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: calibri'></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style='COLOR: ; mso-ascii-font-family: calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: calibri'>The
songwriter’s son, Bobby Weiss, said Armstrong “traveled the world as a kind of
international ambassador of good will, always talking about peace and love,”
which inspired the song lyrics.</SPAN></P>
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style='COLOR: ; mso-ascii-font-family: calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: calibri'></SPAN> </P>
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style='COLOR: ; mso-ascii-font-family: calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: calibri'>You
can learn more about the song and Armstrong’s legacy at the exhibition, on
display through the end of November. You can view the original sheet music,
photographs from recording sessions and Armstrong’s trumpet, among other
artifacts.</SPAN></P>
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style='COLOR: ; mso-ascii-font-family: calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: calibri'>“The
song just isn’t showing any signs of slowing down,” Mr. Riccardi said. “This is
the story of one song, a four-case exhibit, and we could probably do this with
just about any song from his output.” -30</SPAN></P>
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