I'm Sitting on Top of the World
First recording by Sam Lanin's Dance Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Arthur Hall (October 15, 1925)
- Music written by
- Ray Henderson
- Lyrics written by
- Joe Young [US1], Sam Lewis
- Copyright date
- October 7, 1925
- Language
- English
- ISWC
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T-070.905.905-1 ASCAP, ISWC
- Comments
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The Henderson/Young/Lewis song "I'm Sitting on Top of the World" is a more big band era-type song that starts off "I'm sitting on top of the world, I'm rolling along....."
NOTE: There is another Sitting on Top of the World by Walter Vinson that is more bluesy (or bluegrass) and starts out either "And now she’s gone but I don’t worry, ‘Cause I’m sitting on top of the world" or "It was in the spring one sunny day, My good gal left me Lord she went away".
Many of the Vinson songs are mistakenly credited to Henderson/Young/Lewis. Bill Monroe's 1957 recording erroneously credited Henderson/Young/Lewis, and now most of the bluegrass versions follow suit - but they have no lyrical or musical relation to the Henderson work.
I'm sitting on top of the world,
I'm rolling along,
I'm rolling along.
I'm quitting the blues of the world,
Just singing a song,
Just singing a song.
Glory hallelujah, i just phoned the parson,
Hey, par, get ready to call.'
Just like humpty dumpty,
I'm going to fall. - Published by
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FEIST LEO INC
GEMA
REDWOOD MUSIC LTD GEMA
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