what a wonderful world genre

"What a Wonderful World" is a song that has been recorded by several artists, including Sam Cooke and Louis Armstrong. The song was mainly composed by Lou Adler and Herb Alpert, but Cooke revised the lyrics to mention the subject of education more. Louis Armstrong's version of the song was recorded in 1967 and was intended as a reassuring antidote to the mounting problems facing a time defined by what he described as "the deepening national traumas of the Kennedy assassination, Vietnam, racial strife, and turmoil everywhere." The song expresses simple ideas in a simply constructed piece and has a timeless message of love, peace, and harmony. Louis Armstrong's version of the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999.