File: 6609B3
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Title: Sitting On Top of the World
Subject: Turner S. Johnson Jr. (Turner Junior Johnson)
Recording Date: 7-19-1942
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Genre: blues and popular song
Instrument: harmonica and vocal
City: Clarksdale
State: Mississippi
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Editor Notes:
Preceded with questions from Lewis Jones about the secular songs in his repertoire (those he performs while busking), and followed by commentary on Blind Sid Hemphill, from whom he learned the song, and how to find him. Lomax and Jones would visit him several days later.
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