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Sitting On Top Of The World

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Grammy Hall of Fame Award recipients 1957 singles Charley Patton songs Grateful Dead songs Cream (band) songs Western swing songs 1930 songs Music of Mississippi Howlin' Wolf songs Bluegrass songs Blues songs Bob Dylan songs Jack White songs

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%22Sitting on Top of the World%22 (also rendered as %22Sittin' on Top of the World%22) is a folk-blues song written by Walter Vinson and Lonnie Chatmon, core members of the Mississippi Sheiks, a popular country blues band of the 1930s. Walter Vinson claimed to have composed “Sitting on Top of the World” one morning after playing a white dance in Greenwood, Mississippi.The song was first recorded by the Mississippi Sheiks in 1930 (on the Okeh label, No. 8784), became a popular crossover hit for the band, and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2008.In May 1930 Charlie Patton recorded a version of the song (with altered lyrics) called “Some Summer Day” During the next few years cover versions of %22Sitting on Top of the World%22 were recorded by a number of artists: The Two Poor Boys, Doc Watson, Big Bill Broonzy, Sam Collins, Milton Brown and Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys. After Milton Brown recorded it for Bluebird Records the song became a staple in the repertoire of western swing bands.%22Sitting on Top of the World%22 has become a standard of traditional American music. The song has been widely recorded in a variety of different styles — folk, blues, country, bluegrass, rock — often with considerable variations and/or additions to the original verses. The lyrics of the original song convey a stoic optimism in the face of emotional setbacks, and the song has been described as a “simple, elegant distillation of the Blues”.

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Walter Vinson

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2014-01-14

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Okeh Records

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1930-02-17

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Sitting On Top Of The World

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