1994 Jazz legend Louis Armstrong scored a No.1 hit on the US singles chart with ‘Hello Dolly’, the title song from the Tony Award-winning 1964 musical, to become the oldest artist ever to hit the top of the charts at the age of 62. However, in 2011, 85 year-old Tony Bennett broke this record when his ‘Duets’ album topped the US album charts. Louis Armstrong Image Credit: AP Armstrong was one of the most influential solo artists and an innovator of the trumpet. In 1968 he recorded the timeless classic ‘What A Wonderful World,’ a song that he is most associated with. Mick Jagger helps Nicaraguan earthquake victims