Louis Armstrong released “What a Wonderful World” in 1967, and the track eventually made its way to YouTube, like nearly every other recording, where it earns royalties for the single’s owner as well as its
A wonderful and special thing about Weston is that as a gifted and educated free black man in a time of poverty and intense ghettoization he was able to write his own story and document his times for himself. Very few black people were empowered to do that. And what do you find? The...
"What a Wonderful World," Israel 'Iz' Kamakawiwo’ole - 1.03 Billion Views While Louis Armstrong's beautifully-written jazz single will always stand firm, Iz's cover struck a chord with audiences in a way that shook the music industry at the time. His simple and gently sung version on ...
Lomax himself is something of a bogeyman among many music lovers today. He always told artists what he wanted to hear, and he had very philistine views about modern music. He would often look for musicians in prisons, on the basis that their music would have been less "contaminated" by ...
Then I found what I was looking for: John Lydon and Afrika Bambaattaa: World Destruction A little more Johnny, probably my favorite PiL song... Rise Now, to shift gears... The greatest anti-video of all-time: The Replacements - Bastards of Young Oi, give it for Nellie the Elephant....
Their religion isn’t even a religion when you look at it carefully– it’s really more of a political system, and a repressive and murderous one at that. The word “Islam” is literally translated as “submission”, and that’s exactly what they want the world to do to them. Well, ...