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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. (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 ...
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 ...
The Harlem Globetrotters basketball team has been using Brother Bones and His Shadows' version as their anthem since 1952. [82] Several later jazz tunes have been based on the song's chord progression, such as Jackie McLean's "Donna", Miles Davis's "Dig" and Thelonious Monk's "Bright Mississippi". [81]
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 ...
www .hfecorp .com. Herschend Family Entertainment ( HFE) is a privately owned themed-entertainment company that operates several theme parks and tourist attractions within the United States, and as of 2021, one aquarium in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Founded by Jack and Pete Herschend of Branson, Missouri, in its early years HFE was ...
The Generals played their last game against the Globetrotters on August 1, 2015, in Wildwood, New Jersey. [11] [9] Overall, the Generals had lost to the Globetrotters more than 16,000 times in their combined history [2] while winning a mere 3–6 games. [12] [13] From 2015 the Globetrotters' opposition was organised by their own management.
The Super Globetrotters. The Super Globetrotters is a 30-minute Saturday morning animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. It premiered on NBC on September 22, 1979, and ran for 13 episodes. It was a spin-off series from Hanna-Barbera's Harlem Globetrotters. [ 1] Unlike the original Globetrotters series, The Super Globetrotters was ...