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===Hits and later career=== Armstrong had 19 "Top Ten" records<ref name="billboard.com">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/308288/louis-armstrong/biography|title=Louis Armstrong|magazine=Billboard|access-date=March 19, 2020|archive-date=June 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180614200258/https://www.billboard.com/artist/308288/louis-armstrong/biography|url-status=live}}</ref> including "[[Stardust (1927 song)|Stardust]]", "[[What a Wonderful World]]", "[[When The Saints Go Marching In]]", "[[Dream a Little Dream of Me (song)|Dream a Little Dream of Me]]", "[[Ain't Misbehavin' (song)|Ain't Misbehavin']]", "[[You Rascal You]]", and "[[Stompin' at the Savoy]]". "[[We Have All the Time in the World]]" was featured on the soundtrack of the [[James Bond]] film ''[[On Her Majesty's Secret Service (film)|On Her Majesty's Secret Service]]'', and enjoyed renewed popularity in the UK in 1994 when it was featured on a [[Guinness]] advertisement. It reached number 3 in the charts on being re-released. In 1964, Armstrong knocked [[The Beatles]] off the top of the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] chart with "[[Hello, Dolly! (song)|Hello, Dolly!]]", which gave the 63-year-old performer a U.S. record as the oldest artist to have a number one song. His 1964 song "Bout Time" was later featured in the film ''[[Bewitched (2005 film)|Bewitched]]''.<ref name="bergreen7"/> In February 1968, Armstrong appeared with Lara Saint Paul on the Italian [[RAI]] television channel, where he performed "Grassa e Bella", a track Armstrong sang in Italian for the Italian market and C.D.I. label.<ref>Louis Armstrong: "''Grassa e bella''" [http://michaelminn.net/armstrong/index.php?section8 Louis Armstrong Discography] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140111230507/http://michaelminn.net/armstrong/index.php?section8 |date=January 11, 2014 }}</ref> In 1968, Armstrong scored one last popular hit in the UK with "[[What a Wonderful World]]", which topped the British charts for a month. Armstrong appeared on the October 28, 1970, ''[[The Johnny Cash Show (TV series)|Johnny Cash Show]]'', where he sang [[Nat King Cole]]'s hit "[[Ramblin' Rose]]" and joined Cash to re-create his performance backing Jimmie Rodgers on "Blue Yodel No. 9".
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