What a Wonderful World Playing for Change are teaming up to unite and help children around the world trough music. Wherever you come from, whatever political, economic, spiritual or ideological beliefs you might have, music has the power to break down barriers and unite us all. Strongly convinced of this, the Playing For Change movement was set up to inspire, connect, and bring peace to the world through music. The movement funds projects such as building schools or running music education programmes around the world.  What a Wonderful World this will be.

“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,^[1] though it performed poorly in the United States because Larry Newton, the president of ABC Records, disliked the song and refused to promote it.

After appearing in the film Good Morning, Vietnam, the song was re-released as a single in 1988, and it rose to number 32 on the Billboard Hot 100.^[2] Armstrong’s recording was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999. The publishing for this song is controlled by Concord, BMG Rights Management and Carlin America.

The song was written by producer Bob Thiele (as “George Douglas“) and composer and performer George David Weiss.^[3]

One source claims the song was first offered to Tony Bennett, who turned it down,^[4] although Louis Armstrong biographer Ricky Riccardi disputes this claim.^[5] 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.

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