Rosie O'Donnell reveals a big secret.
The actress-turned-daytime talk show host
adopted a daughter too much.
Legend, Louis Armstrong.
See, trees of green,
red roses too.
I've seen them bloom for me
and you.
And I think to myself,
what a wonderful world.
Dallas-based Akeen Babatunde plays Satchmo,
freezing in time a revealing moment before he
returns to stage for his second set.
It's a challenge to recreate a 20th-century
icon, but the actor took it all in stride.
In order to do him, I mean, you just look at
those tapes.
I went up to his home in Queens
and at the museum and played tapes and listened
to him talking in,
saying, now these big-headed guys, you know
that Fletcher Henderson band,
and all of a sudden, I mean, he's such a
distinct voice.
What a wonderful world.
It's a matter of listening and just getting it
in your soul.
What a wonderful world.
Mr. Babatunde is such a major talent
and he's so deeply sensitive and so very
powerful and so very deep
that I have to be just as deep and powerful and
sensitive as him to parallel him.
What a wonderful world.
Louis Armstrong before the second set.
Plays at the Cafe Theatre in the Dallas
Convention Center Complex Friday and Saturday evening.
And that's the final.