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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 ...
Harlem Globetrotters. Frederick "Curly" Neal (May 19, 1942 – March 26, 2020) was an American basketball player who played with the Harlem Globetrotters, instantly recognizable with his shaved bald head. Following in the footsteps of Marques Haynes, Neal became the Trotters' featured ballhandler, a key role in the team's exhibition act.
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 ...
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 ...
Years active. 1940s–1950s. Formerly of. Scatman Crothers, The Shadows. "Sweet Georgia Brown" on the Tempo (US) label, recorded by Brother Bones and His Shadows. Freeman Davis (October 4, 1902 – June 14, 1974 [1]) was an American whistling and bone playing recording artist best known by his stage names " Brother Bones " and " Whistling Sam ".
Meadowlark Lemon. Meadow Lemon III[ 1] (April 25, 1932 – December 27, 2015), [ 2] known professionally as Meadowlark Lemon, was an American basketball player, actor, and Christian minister. For 22 years, he was known as the "Clown Prince" of the touring Harlem Globetrotters basketball team. [ 3] He was a 2003 inductee into the Naismith ...
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 ...
Wilton Norman Chamberlain ( / ˈtʃeɪmbərlɪn / CHAYM-bər-lin; August 21, 1936 – October 12, 1999) was an American professional basketball player. Standing 7 ft 1 in (2.16 m) tall, he played center in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for 14 seasons. Widely regarded as one of the greatest basketball players of all time, Chamberlain ...