Sam Chatmon- Sittin' on top of the World

[PCFilth92]

Bob Wills was pretty cool too.

[polycarp256]

Bob Dylan is a poser

[rileywebb9]

@polycarp256  In what sense?

[polycarp256]

@rileywebb9 It was a joke...Dylan covered this song. I prefer this one

[TheJimiCat]

@polycarp256 no he ant you my friend

[mirrunga10]

:)

[TheAmargao]

I like this version better. Has more soul.

[jackchief]

you cannot beat american music



[monkeytown1000]

It was written by Walter Vinson and Lonnie Chatmon, core members of the 'Mississippi Sheiks' (Lonnie was Sam's brother). It may have borrowed from earlier songs but this was nothing unusual at all at the time, everybody did it.

The 'Mississippi Sheiks' consisted mainly of the Chatmon family. Their original version was released in 1930.

[redsskin42]

@monkeytown1000 Obrigado imensamente pelas informações.

[viniboy514]

there is a version of the hackleberry ramblers

[diggingtreasures]

a think I see why people call him SWEETMASTER :)

[SemajSattler]

I wish more people believed in individuality

[kittyhello741]

Thats from my home town SING ON MR. SAM

[redsskin42]

Simplesmente Sublime!!!!!!

Me parece muito familiar, este ser iluminado.

[jerkfreak901]

i love this song so much!

[deewilki]

i thnk part of the reason that sam wasnt attributed with such aclaim latter was that he didnt seek the limelight or provocate people that sough attention ( he probably didhis bit) like robert johnston or others , what he did when people realy started to know him or the shieks was to go back to the plantation its kinda like a pete green without the drugs were he got fed up playing for others and just stoped and played for him self amazing he was able to record in the 70s

[fngrpkn06]

This is fantastic!

[jarmbru]

This guy did wonderful and unique guitar work. 

[fivethumbsfrank]

theres an interview somewhere on you tube where Sam says he's charlie pattons brother?

[jarmbru]

@fivethumbsfrank Search youtube with Sam Chatmon interview.

[deewilki]

@fivethumbsfrank harlie patton is his half brother and memphis slim is his nephew.

[changeworldwide1]

Thanks for putting this up...beautiful material...ALIASX

[luvthatzeppelin]

Sounds alot like "How long, baby how long"...

[fishtankbank]

@GoldiaPatino14 tthank you so much for showing this tool

[tenorlord]

In the 1970s, Sam always claimed he wrote this song, and there was no one living THEN who could say otherwise.

[abanks47]

@tenorlord id believe it. just seeing some of the video of this man seems like he did a lot in his lifetime. seems like the type with an endless amount of not just stories but incredible stories.

[tenorlord]

@abanks47 He (or was it his father?) "wore out" four wives!

Check out the video where he tells about what his father told him about slavery days!

[abanks47]

@abanks47 Link? know where i can find this video

[vitorsuman]

@tenorlord you see... the first recording of this song is from 1930, by The Mississippi Sheiks, a country blues group formed by Sam Chatmon and his brothers Bo Carter and Lonnie Chatmon and a friend called Walter Vinson. Bo Carter had a recording done two years earlier of a song called "I've Got The Whole World In My Hand" (featuring Papa Charlie McCoy), which uses the same melody and some of the lyrics. So, when claiming he wrote the song, Sam was probably telling the truth, indeed.

[steekmetmes]

ja toch en bierie

[steekmetmes]

ja toch

[steekmetmes]

gewoon lekker chillen met een goede jonko je weet toch

[0987654321libra]

Loved this, totally brilliant!!!

[Lenz917]

I agree this Blues is extinct... They do not do it like this anymore...

[bigwillhenk]

yes , the Blues

[bleuskais]

this kinda blues is extinct... :( thank god for sound recording :)

[SirBuffton]

Things to do in life - still be playing guitar at that age

[galaxyrock]

The Chatmons are the royal family of the Blues.

[eihwazone]

great post banks....

[nativegroundmusic]

I remember in the late Sixites Sam told me he wrote "Sittin' on Top of the World." I'm sure he did. Wayne Erbsen

[Jimmy5string]

@nativegroundmusic If I remember correctly the Mississippi Sheiks were the first to record it and they were the Chatmon family so it is highly likely that he did write it. I wish they would reissue the recordings he made for Blue Goose in the '70s. Great stuff and this was one of the songs he did for them.

[lostintheblues]

@Jimmy5string yes, i do believe the Mississippi Sheiks were the first to record this song, but IMOP i would believe this song is most likely over 50-75 years or older... it just makes sense ...since a lot of our beloved blues songs were written decades before 'blues' was recorded and this melody is older then Charley Pattons grandmother I would lay money that this and many other blues melodies are older then we will ever phantom

[AgentCarter]

then we will ever phantom? that makes no sense, but i agree with the rest of what you said. this music all developed over many generations.

the furhbter you go bhack the more and more it all sounds alike. and that goes for both the white AND black music in the south. early on they were pretty much the same things

[djs11]

@AgentCarter phathom

[AgentCarter]

ah, well then i pretty much agree. there are people who study this and can estimate how old many of these tunes are, how they originated, etc., but yes, many think of these songs as being a product of the 1920's which they certianly are not.

[Bluecigars]

American history is not that old, but voices like his make the shortness all the more relevent and sweet. True delta roots.

[subterranean47]

excellent quality

[bluesedout]

great, taken straight!!

[mianphila]

je suis dans l'eblouissement total devant ce don du ciel.!