Sitting on Top of the World

~ Recording by Don McLean

Appears on releases

#TitleLengthTrack artistRelease titleRelease artistRelease group typeCountry/DateLabelCatalog#
Official
1.1Sitting on Top of the World1:59Don McLeanPlayin' FavoritesDon McLeanAlbum
United Artists161G, UA-LA161-F

Relationships

engineer:Jim Reeves (engineer)
producer:Ed Freeman (producer, arranger, musician, and photographer)
bass:Rob Rothstein
double bass [bass violin]:Russ Savakus
drums (drum set):Rick Marotta (US drummer/percussionist)
fiddle:Frank Orsini
guitar:Steve Berg (American songwriter and guitarist)
Don McLean
mandolin:Frank Wakefield
percussion:Johnny Sandlin (recording engineer, producer and VP at Capricorn Records)
piano:Chuck Leavell
vocals:Don McLean
Rob Rothstein
Frank Wakefield
remixer:Frank Hubach
recorded at:The Record Plant (New York) in Midtown Manhattan
remixed at:The Record Plant (Sausalito, 1972-1981) in Sausalito (from 1973-06 until 1973-09)
recording of:Sitting on Top of the World (“Now she’s gone, I don’t worry…”) (cover)

Related works

Sitting on Top of the World (“Now she’s gone, I don’t worry…”)

writer:Lonnie Carter
Walter Vinson (performance name for Walter Vinson)
publisher:Chappell Music Ltd.
E. H. Morris & Co., Inc. (a division of MPL Communications Inc.)
Mayfair Music Corp.
later versions:Sittin’ on Top of the World (Bob Dylan arrangement)
Sittin’ on Top of the World (Chicago blues version by Howlin’ Wolf aka Chester Arthur Burnett)