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This artist sang “They say I look like God” in a track from a musical he collaborated on with Dave and Iola Brubeck, The Real Ambassadors. With Sy Oliver, this musician recorded a popular cover of Edith Piaf’s ("pee-ahf’s”) “La Vie en Rose.” (15[1])A Boyd Atkins composition was recorded by this man with his “Hot Five,” in what may be the “invention” of (*) scat-singing. “Heebies Jeebies” (10[1])is by this artist, who in a 1967 recording, described seeing “skies of blue and clouds of white” (-5[1])after extolling “trees of green, Red roses too.” For 10 points, name this jazz trumpeter and vocalist who, with a signature gravelly voice, sang “What a Wonderful World.” ■END■ (10[1])

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