Jack Bruce, Clem Clempson & Ginger Baker - Sitting on Top of the World

From the album "Jack Bruce: The Lost Tracks (The 50th Birthday Concerts at Rockpalast)", containing lost tracks from Jack Bruce's 50th anniversary concerts (November, 1993) at Rockpalast, featuring Jack Bruce (vocal, bass) with Clem Clempson (guitar) and Ginger Baker (drums). https://music.apple.com/gb/album/the-lost-tracks-the-50th-birthday-concerts-at-rockpalast/942927910 "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. "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". In 2018, it was selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or artistically significant." After the Mississippi Sheiks original, renditions of "Sitting on Top of the World" were recorded by a number of artists. Howlin' Wolf reworked the song as a Chicago blues, which Chess Records issued as a single in 1957 and later included on the popular compilation series The Real Folk Blues (1966). For the recording, he was backed by a typical blues ensemble consisting of electric guitar (Hubert Sumlin), piano (Hosea Lee Kennard), bass (Alfred Elkins), and drums (Earl Phillips). During performances later in his career, Howlin' Wolf often closed his sets with "Sitting on Top of the World". As with several of his songs, it was adapted by rock groups during the 1960s. Some rock-oriented versions showed considerable variation: a version by the Grateful Dead was played at a very fast tempo of 252 beats per minute (bpm), while Cream performed it at a very slow 44 bpm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitting_on_Top_of_the_World