"291150"^^ . "1930 songs" . "6"^^ . "Grammy Hall of Fame Award recipients" . "Howlin' Wolf songs" . . "Grateful Dead songs" . "108.0"^^ . "1175500" . "Bluegrass songs" . "-0.681507"^^ . "Blues songs" . "Jack White songs" . "-0.397592"^^ . "1957-12" . . "Charley Patton songs" . . . "1957-12" . "151000.0"^^ . "USMC15751850" . "Western swing songs" . "Gramophone record" . . "false"^^ . . "Sittin' 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." . "eng" . . "Sittin' On Top Of The World" . "-14.3"^^ . . "5714ded325ac0d8aee44820f" . "2"^^ . . "Okeh Records" . "1957 singles" . "95853d5c-2b4c-4360-8d50-254c908f08e1" . "Music of Mississippi" . "false"^^ . "2007-05-21"^^ . . "1930-02-17" . "Cream (band) songs" . "8987" . . "Bob Dylan songs" . "Walter Vinson" . "false"^^ . "english" . .