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Harlem Globetrotters. (TV series) Harlem Globetrotters is a Saturday morning cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera and CBS Productions, featuring animated versions of players from the basketball team of the same name. [ 1] Broadcast from September 12, 1970, to October 16, 1971, on CBS Saturday Morning, repeated from September 10, 1972, to May 20 ...
Howard Greenfield (March 15, 1936 – March 4, 1986) was an American lyricist and songwriter, who for several years in the 1960s worked out of the famous Brill Building.He is best known for his successful songwriting collaborations, including one with Neil Sedaka from the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, and near-simultaneous (and equally successful) songwriting partnerships with Jack Keller and ...
The Harlem Globetrotters are an American exhibition basketball team. They combine athleticism, theater, entertainment, and comedy in their style of play. Over the years, they have played more than 26,000 exhibition games in 124 countries and territories, mostly against deliberately ineffective opponents, such as the Washington Generals (1953–1995, since 2015) and the New York Nationals (1995 ...
Bing Crosby recorded the song on April 23, 1932, with Isham Jones and his Orchestra [5] and it is assessed as reaching No. 2 in the charts of the day. [6] The version used by the Harlem Globetrotters is a 1949 instrumental by Brother Bones [7] and His Shadows with whistling and bones by Brother Bones. It was adopted as the Globetrotters theme ...
Maceo Pinkard (June 27, 1897 – July 21, 1962) was an American composer, lyricist, and music publisher. Among his compositions is "Sweet Georgia Brown", a popular standard for decades after its composition and famous as the theme of the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team. Pinkard was inducted in the National Academy of Popular Music ...
Nationality (legal) American. Occupation (s) Singer, entertainer, sportsman. Thomas Robert Brookins (September 2, 1906 – June 1988) was an American sportsman and entertainer. He founded the basketball team that became the Harlem Globetrotters, and toured the world as one half of the vaudeville singing and comedy duo Brookins and Van .
The Harlem Globetrotters, a traveling troupe of merry basketball players, are on a plane ride over the Pacific Ocean when it suffers engine trouble and is forced to make an emergency landing onto Gilligan's Island. The castaways heard the news on Mr. Howell's private TV. After a brief time stranded in the jungle, they are discovered by Gilligan ...
Harlem Globetrotters legend Louis Dunbar and rising star Rock "Wham" Middleton discuss the team's fashion influence, from leotards to all-black jerseys.