On this day in music history - What a Wonderful World, by Louis Armstrong (1967):

The album What a Wonderful World,

by Louis Armstrong,

was released on September 1, 1967.

Born on this day – Louis Armstrong:

Louis Armstrong

Musician

Singer

Actor

August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971

Credits:

Albums:

Always On The Sunny Side (2012); An American Icon (1998); Bing & Satchmo (1960); Black Chicago (Louis Armstrong 1927) (2009); Blueberry Hill (2013); Carnegie Hall Concert (1998); Chicago Concert 1956 (1980); Disney Songs the Satchmo Way (1968); Ella and Louis (1956); Ella and Louis Again (1957); Forever Broadway (2013); Greatest Hits (1994); Hello Louis! (1990); Hello, Dolly! (1964); Hot Fives & Sevens (2000); I Get Ideas - Louis Armstrong (2009); Jazz - Louis Armstrong (2015); Louie And The Dukes Of Dixieland (1960); Louis and His Friends: Louis Armstrong And His All Stars in Concert at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, 1951 (1997); Louis and the Good Book (1958); Louis Armstrong – Dinah (2003); Louis Armstrong 1929 (2009); Louis Armstrong 1930 (2009); Louis Armstrong and His Friends (1970); Louis Armstrong Greatest Hits (1996); Louis Armstrong Live! (2014); Louis Armstrong Meets Oscar Peterson (1957); Louis Armstrong Songs (2000); Louis 'Country & Western' Armstrong (1970); Louis Under the Stars (1958); New Orleans (1947); Porgy and Bess (1959); Satch Plays Fats (1955); Satchmo and the Dukes of Dixieland (1988); Satchmo at Pasadena (1951); Satchmo In Style (1959); Satchmo Serenades (1952); The California Concerts (1992); The Complete Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong on Verve (1997); The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings (2000); The Definitive Collection (2006); The Good Book (2009); The Great Reunion (1961); The Great Summit (1961); The Great Summit: The Master Takes (1961); The Real Ambassadors (1962); The Very Best of Louis Armstrong (1998); What a Wonderful World (1988); Wonderful World Songs (2014).

Movies and television:

007: Road to a Million / Song: We Have all the Time in the World (2023); 12 Monkeys (1995); 20 to 1 (2006); 20th Century Women (2016); 50s Britannia (2013); 7th Heaven (1996); A Christmas Night with the Stars (1968); À la place du coeur (1998); À l'affiche du monde (1970); A Little Dream of Me (2012); A Little Off the Top (2012); A Man Called Adam (1966); A Rhapsody in Black and Blue (1932); A Song Is Born (1948); A Summer's Day (2000); A United Kingdom (2016); Akkaa päälle (1996); Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei (2009); Alibi Time (1938); Alive Inside: A Story of Music and Memory (2014); All Star Revue (1952); All You Need Is Love (1977); American Dad! (2010); American Epic (2017); American Gangster (2007); American Masters (1989–2014); American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story (2017); American Soul (2019); American Women (2000); America's Musical Journey (2018); America's Weekend Headquarters (2022); An Hour with Danny Kaye (1960); An Idiot Abroad (2010); ...and Beautiful II (1970); Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer (2007); Annie MG (2010); Apollo Theatre Hall of Fame (1993); Archive 81 (2022); Året var... (2005); Arthur Godfrey and His Friends (1949); Artist and Models (1937); Assassin's Creed (2016); At First Sight (1999); Atlantic City (1944); Auf Wiedersehen (1961); Back to the Sea (2012); Banda sonora (2009); Baseball (1994); BBC Show of the Week (1965–1968); Behind the Freedom Curtain (2013); Ben Is Back (2018); Berlin-Melodie - Vom Zille-Ball zum Jazzlokal (1963); Bert Stern: Original Madman (2011); Bessie (2015); Best of the Dean Martin Show (1979); Best on Record: The 9th annual Grammy Awards (1967); Beware of Mr. Baker (2012); Bewitched (2005); Bilkrigen (2018); Billie (2019); Billie Holiday: The Ultimate Collection (2005); Biography of the Millennium: 100 People - 1000 Years (1999); Birth of the Blues (1941); Bix: 'Ain't None of Them Play Like Him Yet' (1981); Black Music in America: From Then Till Now (1971); Blow (2001); Blow up: Le web magazine cinéma d'Arte (2015); Blue Bloods (2016); Blue Jasmine (2013); Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music (1993); Boarding House Blues (1948); Boardwalk Empire (2013–2014); Boston Legal (2004–2006); Botta e risposta (1950); Bowling for Columbine (2002); BP Super Show (1963); Britain's Most Dangerous Songs: Listen to the Banned (2014); Broadway: The American Musical (2004); Brother Bill (1945); Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975); Brothers & Sisters (2007); Cabin in the Sky (1943); Candy Cane Lane (2023); Capone (2020); Castle (2012); Castle Einstein (1998); Cavalcade of Bands (1950); CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley (2023); Chansons! (2022); Children of the Revolution (1996); Chloé (1996); Chooch (2003); Ciao, Professore! (1992); Cita con las estrellas (1956–1971); City on a Hill (2022); Class Act (1992); Clean Pastures (1937); Cold Case (2004–2006); College of Musical Knowledge (1950); Come See the Paradise (1990); Coming of Age (2010); Constellation (2005); Containment (2016); Corrina, Corrina (1994); Country Music (2019); Criminal Minds (2007); Crossing Jordan (2001–2002); Crossroads (1999); Cuéntame cómo pasó (2003); Cybill (1995); Dancing with the Stars (2006–2008); Dark Desire (2020); Dawson's Creek (2001); Deep Water (2022); Der goldene Schuß (1965); Der Kurier des Kaisers (2018); Di Di Hollywood (2010); Dial M for Music (1970); Die Drehscheibe (1980); Die Lugners (2003); Die Nacht vor der Premiere (1959); Die Westfalenhalle - Arena der Sensationen (2023); Diminishing Returns (2017); Discorama (1961); Disneyland: The First 50 Magical Years (2005); Dixieland at Disneyland (1964); Doctor Dolittle (1998); Doctor Rhythm (1938); Dolemite Is My Name (2019); Dooley's Not Dooby (2018); Douce France (1964); Dream On (1998); Drive My Car (2021); Driving Miss Daisy (1989); Easy Life (2014); Ein Jahr 'Ö 3' (1968); Ein Kessel Buntes (2014); Eisenbahn-Romantik (2011); El secdleto de la tlompeta (1995); Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong: Cheek to Cheek (2021); Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things (2019); Ella Wishes You A Swinging Christmas with Vanessa Williams (2020); Eric Burdon: Rock'n'Roll Animal (2019); Erotic Liaisons (1992); Escape to Athena (1979); Every Day's a Holiday (1937); Everybody Loves Raymond (2003); Everything or Nothing (2012); Ex-Flame (1930); F.C. De Kampioenen (1990); Fallout 2: A Post-Nuclear Role-Playing Game (1998); Fantasy Island (1998); FDR (1982); Fest & Flauschig (2017); Festival di Sanremo (1968); Finding Dory (2016); Flip (1970); Floor Show (1949); Florida Lady (1994); For All Mankind (2019–2023); For Sale (2012); Ford Star Jubilee (1956); Forever (2015); Forget Paris (1995); Formula for Love (1959); Forsthaus Falkenau (2002); Förtroligheten (2013); Frank Sinatra: One More for the Road (2019); Frank Sinatra: The Voice of Our Time (1990); Frankie Laine: An American Dreamer (2006); Frank's Place (1987); Fred Astaire Salutes the Fox Musicals (1974); French Film (2008); French Kiss (1995); Friends with Kids (2011); From the Future with Love (2013); Gangster Empire: Rise of the Mob (2013); Genie (2023); George Wallace (1997); Getaway (2008); Gilmore Girls (2000); Gloria y Eduardo, el abrazo eterno (2019); Glory Alley (1952); God Said Give 'Em Drum Machines (2022); Going Places (1938); Golic and Wingo (2018); Good Evening Ev'rybody: In Celebration of Louis Armstrong (2008); Good Morning, Vietnam (1987); Gotham (2016); Grantchester (2014); Grass is Greener (2019); Great Performances (2005); Grumpier Old Men (1995); Guilty by Suspicion (1991); Hallo Satchmo (1965); Harlem Nights (1989); Häuser der Kunst (2023); Head Over Heels (2010); Headline Bands (1946); Hello, Dolly! (1969); Here Comes the Groom (1951); Here's Hollywood (1961); Heroes and Sinners (1955); Heute leben (2014); High Society (1956); Hinter Gittern - Der Frauenknast (1999–2004); Hollywood sul Tevere (2009); House (2005–2006); How Jack Became Black (2018); How to Make an American Quilt (1995); Huevos: Little Rooster's Egg-cellent Adventure (2015); Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel (2009); Icon (2014); IF (2024); I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You (1932); Independent Lens (2004–2005); Inspector George Gently (2012); Intresseklubben (2014); It's a Big Country: An American Anthology (1951); It's Black Entertainment (2002); I've Got a Secret (1958–1965); Jackie Gleason: The Great One (1988); Jam Session (1944); Jasper in a Jam (1946); Jazz (2001); Jazz Ball (1956); Jazz Festival: Vol. 1 - Louis Armstrong (2003); Jazz Giants of the 20th Century (2007); Jazz Legends in Their Own Words (2014); Jazz on a Summer's Day (1959); Jimmy's Hall (2014); Jirí Jelínek a Eva Pilarová: Satchmo (1966); Jirí Suchý in Jiri Suchy - Tackling Life with Ease (2019); Joe Gould's Secret (2000); John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick (1988); Johnny Carson Presents the Sun City Scandals '70 (1970); Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me (2009); Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me (2009); July Rain (1967); Jumping the Broom (2011); Kak molody my byli (1985); Kam zmizel ten starý song (2005); Karkalou (1984); Karmu: A Place in the Sun (2015); Killer of Sheep (1978); Killers of the Flower Moon (2023); King of Cool (2021); La gran aventura de Mortadelo y Filemón (2003); La hora fría (2006); La Paloma (1959); Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday (1990); Larry David: Curb Your Enthusiasm (1999); Lauren Bacall, ombre et lumière (2017); Legends in Concert: Louis Armstrong (2007); Les refrains de la mémoire (2001); Lethal Weapon (2016); Letters to Santa 4 (2021); Liberty Heights (1999); Life Is Beautiful (1958); Life on Mars (2006); Listening to Kenny G (2021); Little Satchmo (2021); Livshunger (2002); L'Oeil du cyclone (1992); Long Story Short (2015); Lord of War (2005); Los simuladores (2002); Louis Armstrong: 1900 – 1971 (1971); Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues (2022); Love Affair (1994); Love Me If You Dare (2003); Love, Hate & Propaganda: The Cold War (2011); Lying Lips (1939); Madagascar (2005); Madeline (1998); Maestro (2023); Mafia: Definitive Edition (2020); Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory (1997); Malcolm in the Middle (2002); Manu Dibango, silences (1990); March of Dimes (1977); Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School (2005); Marsalis on Music (1995); Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band (2015); Masters of American Music (1995); Maxine Sullivan: Love to Be in Love (1990); Me and Orson Welles (2008); Measure of a Man (1962); Mein Salzburg (2015); Men in Trees (2006); Men, Women & Children (2014); Merry Madagascar (2009); Metal Hurlant Chronicles (2012); Miami Rhapsody (1995); Michael Parkinson's Greatest Entertainers (2007); Mike Douglas: Moments & Memories (2008); Mikset sä soita (1994); Mindhunter (2019); Minnie and Moskowitz (1971); Miracle (2004); Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2013–2015); Mob on the Run (1987); Mob Short: An Inconvenient Affair (2013); Monte Carlo (2011); Monterey Jazz Festival: 40 Legendary Years (1998); Moon Rock City (2017); Moonlighting (1988); More of 'the Best of the Hollywood Palace' (1993); Morfi, todos a la mesa (2016); Mr. Deeds (2002); Mr. Saturday Night (1992); Music on 2 (1970); My Favorite Martian (1999); My Fellow Americans (1996); My Hindu Friend (2015); My Life So Far (1999); My Music: Big Band Vocalists (2012); My Music: Songbook Standards - As Time Goes By (2015); My Son the Fanatic (1997); Mysteries of the Abandoned: Hidden America (2024); Nash Bridges (1999); NDR Jazz Workshops (1959–1961); New Orleans (1947); New Year's Eve (2011); New York: A Documentary Film (1999–2003); News at Ten (2018); Nitrato d'argento (1996); No 73 (1986); No me la puc treure del cap (2010); No Time to Die (2021); Nobody (2021); Normal (2003); Northern Exposure (1990–1992); Nothing But the Best (1953); Office Space (1999); Omnibus (1970 / 1999); On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969); On the Road with Duke Ellington (1974); One Day Since Yesterday: Peter Bogdanovich & the Lost American Film (2014); One on One: Classic Television Interviews (1993); One Pair of Eyes (1969); Only You (1994); Operation: Entertainment (1968); Ostorozno, Modern! (1997); Ostrichs Feathers (2010); Otto V (1977); Out to Sea (1997); Outer Banks (2020); Outside the Wire (2021); Paris Blues (1961); Passage to Panama: A Musical Journey (2008); Patrick Melrose (2018); Pearl Harbor (2001); Pennies from Heaven (1936); Penny Dreadful: City of Angels (2020); Pepper Chocolate (2003–2004); Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1956); Perry Mason (2020); Pete, Pearl & the Pole (1973); Phantom Boy (2015); Pillow to Post (1945); Planeta Singli 2 (2018); Play Your Own Thing: A Story of Jazz in Europe (2006); Playboy 2000: The Party Continues (2000); Pollock (2000); Pop Utopia (2020); PopStory - Aneb od vinylu k iPodu (2020); Popular Voices at the BBC (2017); Pourquoi l'Amérique (1970); Primetime Glick (2001); Prisoner of the Mountains (1996); Producers' Showcase (1955–1956); Prop Culture (2020); Protagonistas del recuerdo (2006); Queens Logic (1991); Quincy (2018); Rambling Rose (1991); Range 15 (2016); Relative Strangers (2006); Rembob'Ina (2021); Remember When... (1981–1985); Repo Man (1984); Reputations (2001); Rhein-Melodie - Wein, Gesang und gute Laune (1966); Rio Sex Comedy (2010); Rizzoli & Isles (2014); Roald Dahl's Esio Trot (2015); Röster och röstkonst (2000); Roxette: How Do You Do! (1992); Rude Tube (2012); Sagrada Família (1970); Saint Jack (1979); Saint-Germain-des-Prés (1950); Salaud, on t'aime. (2014); Saluti e baci (1953); Salvation (2017); Sanders Shorts (2021); Satchmo the Great (1957); Satchmo-Story (1962); Saturday Night Live (1989–1998); Scatman John: Everybody Jam! (1996); Scenes from a Mall (1991); Schlager, Stars und Schnulzen - Streiflichter aus der mitteldeutschen Unterhaltungsindustrie (1965); Second Act (2018); Secret Societies (2014); Secrets of the Heart (1997); Seder-Masochism (2018); See It Now (1955); Serendipity (2001); Seven Days (1999); Shanghai (2010); Shindig! (1965); Shine (1942); Show-Business at War (1943); Shut Up and Talk (2015); Sinatra: The Classic Duets (2002); Sing Your Song (2011); Skeppsholmen (2003); Skins (2008); Sleepless in Seattle (1993); Sleepy Time Down South (1942); So You Think You Can Dance Canada (2009); Something's Gotta Give (2003); Sorrow and Joy (2013); Soul Kitchen (2009); Soul Man (1986); Soul of a Nation (2022); Sound of Song (2015); Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat (2024); Southland Tales (2006); Spielberg (2017); Stardust Memories (1980); Still Breathing (1997); Storyville (1992); Stranger Things (2022); Strictly Come Dancing (2014); Sugar Hill Times (1949); Supergirl (2015); Swing Girls (2004); Swing Wedding (1937); Swingin' on Nothin' (1942); Tales from the Loop (2020); Tantacrul (2022); Taste of Cherry (1997); Taxing Love (2018); Tempo (1970); Teresa Brewer and the Firehouse Five Plus Two (1951); Texasville (1990); That Old Feeling (1997); That's Black Entertainment (1990); That's Entertainment, Part II (1976); That's Life (1969); The 40th Annual Academy Awards (1968); The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones Documentaries (2008); The Age of Shadows (2016); The All-Star Christmas Show (1958); The Andrew Klavan Show (2017); The Arthur Haynes Show (1964); The Beat Generation (1959); The Bell Telephone Hour (1960–1968); The Best of Louis Armstrong (1980); The Best of the Ed Sullivan Show (1992); The Best on Record (1965); The Bing Crosby Show (1959); The Black Godfather (2019); The Boys (2009); The Cat's Meow (2001); The Children of the Marshland (1999); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1951–1955); The Color Purple (1985); The Cotton Club (1984); The Cry of the Owl (2009); The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008); The Danny Kaye Show (1966–1967); The Danny Kaye Show (1966–1967); The David Frost Show (1970–1971); The Day of the Locust (1975); The Day of the Locust: Photo Gallery (2020); The Dean Martin Show (1965); The Dean Martin Show (1965–1966); The Deuce (2019); The Dick Cavett Show (1971); The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1961); The DuPont Show of the Month (1957 / 1961); The Ed Sullivan Show (1949–1966); The Edsel Show (1957); The Fairy (2011); The Farthest (2017); The Fifties (1997); The Five Pennies (1959); The Four (2012); The Frank Sinatra Show (1952); The Giverny Document (2019); The Glenn Miller Story (1954); The Good Place (2016); The Grand Tour (2016); The Great Gatsby (2013); The Green Man (1990); The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981); The Hollywood Knights (1980); The Hollywood Palace (1964–1968); The Impostors (1998); The Jackie Gleason Show (1952 / 1967); The Joey Bishop Show (1968); The Johnny Cash Show (1970–1971); The Ken Murray Show (1950); The Kennedy Years: JFK Remembered (1993); The King of Queens (1998); The Kraft Music Hall (1967); The Legendary Bing Crosby (2010); The Legendary Crooners (2007); The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg (1998); The Love Letter (1999); The Magic of Bing Crosby (1991); The Magical World of Disney (1962); The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976); The Mark of Beauty (2013); The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2018); The Mentalist (2011); The Merv Griffin Show (1970); The Mike Douglas Show (1964–1976); The Milton Berle Show (1951–1952); The Morecambe & Wise Show (1968–1970); The Muppet Show (1977); The Music of Man (1979); The Newton Boys (1998); The Outer Limits (1996); The Pearl Bailey Show (1971); The Perfect Find (2023); The Practice (1997–2004); The Puppetoon Movie (1987); The Quiet American (2002); The Republic Pictures Story (1991); The Sense of an Ending (2017); The Simpsons (2009–2018); The Sound of 007 (2022); The South Bank Show (1993–2007); The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1958); The Strip (1951); The Subject Is Jazz (1958); The Swift Show Wagon with Horace Heidt and the American Way (1955); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1963–1992); The Trip to Spain (2017); The U.S. Royal Showcase (1952); The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021); The Voyager 2150 (2024); The White Lotus (2021); The Wife (2017); They All Laughed (1981); Things Heard & Seen (2021); Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995); This Is Your Life (1960); Thomas Pesquet: L'odyssée de l'Espace (2017); Three Vignettes (2012); Timex All-Star Jazz Show (1957–1959); Tom Sawyer (2011); Toon in with Me (2024); Top of the Pops (1964–1994); Town & Country (2001); Treme (2010–2011); Trombone Shorty (2008); True Love (2003); Trumpeten - jazzmusikaliskt allehanda (1962); Tu cara me suena - Argentina (2013); Tutti for Louis - Omaggio a Louis Amstrong (2000); Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years (2000); Twin Peaks (1990); Tylko mnie kochaj (2006); U2: Window in the Skies (2007); Un mundo maravilloso (2006); Unser Auto wird 100 (1985); Unsung (2022); Up (2009); Up from the Streets: New Orleans: The City of Music (2019); USArt: The Gift of Ourselves (1975); Vamp (1991–1992); Vandread (2000); Vegas: The City the Mob Made (2009); Vincent Lopez and His Orchestra (1939); Walk on By: The Story of Popular Song (2001); WALL·E (2008); Walter and Henry (2001); Wenn die tollen Tanten kommen (1970); What About Linda? (1961); What's My Line? (1954–1964); What's My Line? At 25 (1975); When Harry Met Sally... (1989); When the Boys Meet the Girls (1965); Who's Doing the Dishes? (2016); Wide Wide World (1955); Wild Man Blues (1997); Wrestling with Alligators (1998); You Are There (1954); Your Chevrolet Showroom (1953); You've Got Mail (1998); Z: The Beginning of Everything (2017).

On this day in movie history - Soundies: A Musical History (2007):

Soundies: A Musical History,

documentary directed by Chris Lamson,

written by Chris Lamson and Jennifer Sneider,

was released in the United States on March 3, 2007.

Hosted by Michael Feinstein.

Music by Michael Feinstein.

Cast:
Van Alexander, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Mel Blanc, Will Bradley, Les Brown, Cab Calloway, Mark Cantor, Cyd Charisse, Nat 'King' Cole, Dorothy Dandridge, Doris Day, Yvonne De Carlo, Jimmy Dorsey, George Duke, Roy Eldridge, Duke Ellington, Frances Faye, Michael Feinstein, Irving Fields, Joe Franklin, Hugh Hefner, Spike Jones, Louis Jordan, Gene Krupa, Liberace, Leonard Maltin, Ginny Mancini, Wynton Marsalis, Hugh Martin, The Mills Brothers, Dan Morgenstern, Helen O'Connell, Anita O'Day, Jackie Parton, Les Paul, 'Snub' Pollard, Stan Ridgway, Kay Starr, Claude Thornhill, Mel Tormé, Merle Travis, Fats Waller, Ben Webster, Lawrence Welk.