don't forget -- today is Oh Yeah Day

[grasswire]

Happy Birthday Louis!

www.ohyeahday.com


Oh Yeah is the essence of life. It is the joy of life, expressed with absolute simplicity that everybody understands and it means the same everywhere in the world. Most people associate the expression with Louis Armstrong, King of Classic Jazz. He was the one who regularly used this simple but very meaningful expression in his music. The Oh Yeah feeling helps everyone to forget about everyday problems and even economic crisis and war become secondary. The joy of life represented and expressed by Armstrong has not changed at all and, although all musical styles have their own "Oh Yeah's", classic jazz is the only one that essentially remain the same and it's still on the surface. And the same Oh Yeah feeling has been delivered by later musical styles, too, including blues, rhythm and blues, rock'n'roll, rockabilly, funky. This was the source for Elvis, the Beatles and the hippy era. This is a feeling that will remain with us forever and for what we will always desire, with or without music. Even if we might not know that the source is Classic Jazz and Louis Armstrong. Let's make Armstrong's 110th birthday the first Oh Yeah Day, International Day of Classic Jazz! Oh, Yeah...

[Ptah]

1. what a wonderful world. oh yeah!

Louis Armstrong - what a wonderful world - - - > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzJY96m3lkg

I see trees of green, red roses too
I see them bloom for me and you
And I think to myself what a wonderful world.

I see skies of blue and clouds of white
The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night
And I think to myself what a wonderful world.

The colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sky
Are also on the faces of people going by
I see friends shaking hands saying how do you do
They're really saying I love you.

I hear babies crying, I watch them grow
They'll learn much more than I'll never know
And I think to myself what a wonderful world
Yes I think to myself what a wonderful world.

[grasswire]

2. oh yeah!

A lot of people like that song.

Not my Louis fave, but I respect the sentiments of those who love it.

[Ptah]

3. What's your fave?

[grasswire]

4. probably West End Blues -- 1928 with his Hot Five group

...but then I am a hard-core fan of jazz of the 1920s.


Nice biography at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Armstrong

[Little Star]

5. 11 year old Anna Graceman paid quite a tribute to Louis Armstrong

when she sang "What a Wonderful World" on America's got talent! For being so young she did louis proud!
Listen to her:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U74G1PZLMtI