BOB WILLS / SITTIN' ON TOP OF THE WORLD

man......

Does anyone understand the blocking of this tune? The opening fiddle chorus has it right, but after that there's all kinds of extra measures and the singing over the end of the steel break is clearly the work of some bonehead sound mixer. I think the film director got them to change the arrangement for reasons best known to him.

The lefty guitar player is playing a right-handed guitar upside down. Quite a feat.

I'm a lefty...did the same til I bought me a left-handed Strat. in '61. Once saw a guy in Lexington, Ky. Take a right-handed Gibson, turn it upside down [didn't change string order], and played it over the top of the neck. Name was Carlos Toadvine, went by name of 'Little Enis'. Bob Wills would've loved him.

Paul McCartney is a lefty that a played a right-hand guitar with strings in the right-hand order.

May be true - Just never saw Paul play Guitar OR Bass over top of the neck like Little 'Enis'. Piano, Ah...us lefties don't change nothin'. We just play...me & Paul.

i don't really understand the technical side but this is a 9bar blues song as compared to the conventional 12, the mixing sounds a bit weird on the steel but i thought it was in keeping with the time structure

So basically now if I try to make more than two comments under this new Google dictatorship I'm obviously exceeding my limit Ooooooooooaaaaa that's so cool

It's so cool to see an old clip like this. These guys were so talented, it's so great they made this film!

very cool piece of footage Rach...the lap steel solo was awesome..

This must be the late '40s or early '50s. Bob looks kind of old.