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Copyright date
October 7, 1925
Language
English
ISWC
T-070.905.905-1 ASCAP, ISWC
Comments
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.
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REDWOOD MUSIC LTD GEMA
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Title Performer Release date Info
January 1926 First recording on October 15, 1925
December 1925
December 1925
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1926
listen on Internet Archive August 1947
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1955 Medley
November 1956
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I'm Sitting on Top of the World King Brothers 1957 Unverified
May 1958
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1959 Live
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1960 Live
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listen on Internet Archive 1960
1960 Medley
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October 1961
listen on Internet Archive August 13, 1962
October 15, 1962
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November 1966
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I'm Sitting on Top of the World Jamie Redfern 1972 Unverified
May 29, 1973
(Jean Stapleton, Carroll O'Connor) 1973 Medley
1975 Medley
1976 Medley
1976 Medley
November 1977
March 1995 Released more than 10 years after its recording
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May 22, 2001
October 14, 2005
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February 24, 2009 Released more than 10 years after its recording
February 22, 2011 Live
2011 Live
October 19, 2013

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i 1925
i January 1926
i 1926
i 1926
i July 1937
i 1956
i 1957
i 1957
i 1958 Vocalise version
listen on Internet Archive i 1959
i I'm Sitting on Top of the World Three Suns 1959 Unverified
i 1960
listen on Internet Archive i 1961
i 1961 Medley
i 1963 Medley
i November 14, 1969 Medley
i 1970 Medley
i 1977
i September 1982
i 1983 Medley
i 1993 Medley
i 1997
i 2002 Medley