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https://www.paypal.me/songworkout Intended as an antidote for the increasingly racially and politically charged climate of everyday life in the United States, the song also has a hopeful, optimistic tone with regard to the future, with reference to babies being born into the world and having much to look forward to. The song was initially offered to Tony Bennett, who turned it down. Thereafter, it was offered to Louis Armstrong.
The song made Louis Armstrong the oldest male to top the chart, at sixty-six years and ten months old.
The song gradually became something of a standard and reached a new level of popularity. In 1978, Armstrong's 1967 recording was featured in the closing scenes of the first series of BBC radio's cult hit, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and was repeated for BBC's 1981 TV series of the same. In 1988, Armstrong's recording was featured in the film Good Morning, Vietnam
Louis Armstrong, The Flaming Lips, Kenny G., Michael Bublé, Tony Bennett and K.D. Lang sang duet LeAnn Rimes, Sarah Brightman and Esperanza Spalding have all covered.