"1957 singles" . "Music of Mississippi" . . "Bob Dylan songs" . . "Cream (band) songs" . "english" . "Sitting On Top Of The World" . . "%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 \u201CSitting on Top of the World\u201D 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 \u201CSome Summer Day\u201D 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 \u2014 folk, blues, country, bluegrass, rock \u2014 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 \u201Csimple, elegant distillation of the Blues\u201D." . "1560951" . "Western swing songs" . "Bluegrass songs" . "2000-09-06"^^ . . "Okeh Records" . . "Walter Vinson" . "-0.464147"^^ . "77512" . "1930-02-17" . "Howlin' Wolf songs" . "136000.0"^^ . "false"^^ . "310271"^^ . "5714dec725ac0d8aee3b2cf2" . "Grateful Dead songs" . "DK5C50009248" . "1930 songs" . "Charley Patton songs" . "Jack White songs" . "false"^^ . "Sitting On Top Of The World" . "false"^^ . "Grammy Hall of Fame Award recipients" . . "Blues songs" . "114.8"^^ . "Gramophone record" . "2"^^ . "81"^^ . "-12.9"^^ . . "-0.565055"^^ .