"You Make the Whole World Smile" is a single by New Zealand singer/songwriter, Hammond Gamble, as part of the Red Nose Band, called "Hammond Gamble & The Red Nose Gang".
The song was the theme song for television adverts for Red Nose Day. The music video featured many famous New Zealanders lipsynching to the song in black and white.
This local tune has the distinction of being the only song in the New Zealand charts to ever hit number one twice in separate years. "You Make the Whole World Smile" first hit number one in August 1992 and exactly a year later it was number one again after having dropped out of the chart completely.It also was the only New Zealand song to reach number one in the two years. The song was also notable for knocking the song Can't Help Falling in Love by UB40 out of the number 1 spot it had held for 10 weeks, the UB40 song returned to number 1 the following week.
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Famous quotes containing the words world and/or smile:
“To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but mediately to the understanding or reason?”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
“Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.”
—Robert Greene (1558?–1592)