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ash966
Since: Dec, 2014
2020-12-13 22:32:38
Maybe Tom Waits? https://www.songtexte.fm/tom-waits/what-a-wonderful-world
or Shane Mc Gowan? https://youtu.be/OtsXjHk2ZsI
2x2HandsofBlue
Since: Jan, 2019

So something like 10 years ago, somebody posted a "Best of Claude" from Heroes compilation on Youtube with a version of What a Wonderful World playing in the background. I remember really enjoying that version of the song and recently I was trying to find it again (the video was taken down ages ago). I could have sworn Jimmy Durante was the vocalist, but searching for the song coupled with his name just yields Louis Armstrong versions. I really don't think it was Armstrong, but I suppose it could have been. However, all of the Armstrong versions are at a slow tempo, and the "Durante" version was sort of a fast, rock-type version, kind of like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRMrAQuccEo
except the vocalist definitely did have kind of a gravelly voice like Durante or Armstrong.
Anyone have any idea what version of the song I'm talking about? I really, really thought it was Jimmy Durante singing it (I believe the video even named him as the vocalist), but my searches are coming up with nothing.
Edited by SpocktorWho