Louis Armstrong and Johnny Cash — Blue Yodel No. 9 from The Johnny Cash Show, October 28, 1970.

In 1968, not long after the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bobby Kennedy, Louis Armstrong went to the ABC Records studio to record “What A Wonderful World.” It was written by George David Weiss and legendary producer Bob Thiele (Coltrane, Mingus, Gillespie). Armstrong hoped the song would lift spirits a bit after the [...]