THE BARD FAMILY
The All New Bard Family WWW Theme Song!!
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Our new theme song, determined by popular vote is: (drum roll
please)...
"What a Wonderful World"
by
Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong
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Music
and Lyrics
The
True Significance of the WWW Theme Song
If anyone knows the album title or has a digitized copy of the LONG
version of this song (in which Mr. Armstrong speaks a short intro), please
send E-mail.
A Quote About Louis...
A recording
session
by Louis Armstrong is always an occasion, one which brings together his
friends from within and without the profession. They come not merely to
wish him well, but to revel in his artistry and bask in the warmth of
his
personality. The first of the three sessions had a special
significance,
for it was preceded by a party which celebrated Satchmo's 70th Birthday
a few weeks in advance. There was a huge chocolate cake adorned with a
golden trumpet, over which the guest of honor brandished a long knife
with
apparently tiratical intentions. Around him were gathered some of the
friends
who had made the studio visitor's book look like a Who's Who of Jazz -
Bobby Hackett, Miles Davis and Ruby Braff; Tony Bennett and Leon
Thomas;
Chico Hamilton and Eddie Condon; Ornette Coleman and Mike Lipskin;
George
Wein and Father Norman O'Connor - and an altogether exceptional
representation
of the press that is too long to list. The sessions thus launched
proved
an unqualified success, and with Bob Thiele's skillful guidance, Louis
Armstrong's bonhomie was caught as seldom before. Oliver Nelson, who
wrote
the arrangements and conducted, excelled himself, drawing the utmost
each
time from an orchestra of top-flight musicians. The version of We Shall
Overcome, on which all the friends and guests joined in vocally, became
a best selling single. An awareness of torn and troubled times was
further
manifested in an insistent performance of the Beatles' Give Peace a
Chance
and in a new interpolation - complete with a timely homily - of What a
Wonderful World. Not least of the other titles was Boy From New
Orleans,
on which the story of Satchmo's life was told to the familiar strains
of
When the Saints Go Marching In Every year on July 4th, people of all
races,
creeds and nationalities wished Louis Armstrong many happy returns.
In
1970, more people than ever thought of him with love and affection, for
no one, surely, had so consistently conveyed a unifying message of good
will and brotherhood in the 20th Century.
STANLEY DANCE
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