<Table> <Tr> <Td> "Alberta Blues" / "Winter Time Blues" (1930) </Td> <Td> "Sitting on Top of the World" (1930) </Td> <Td> "Stop and Listen Blues" / "Driving That Thing" (1930) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> "Alberta Blues" / "Winter Time Blues" (1930) </Td> <Td> "Sitting on Top of the World" (1930) </Td> <Td> "Stop and Listen Blues" / "Driving That Thing" (1930) </Td> </Tr> <P> "Sitting on Top of the World" (also "Sittin' on Top of the World") is a country blues song written by Walter Vinson and Lonnie Chatmon . They were core members of the Mississippi Sheiks, who first recorded it in 1930 . Vinson claimed to have composed the song one morning after playing at a white dance in Greenwood, Mississippi . It became a popular crossover hit for the band, and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2008 . </P> <P> "Sitting on Top of the World" 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". </P>

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