1949 HITS ARCHIVE: Sweet Georgia Brown - Brother Bones (Globetrotters theme)

Sweet Georgia Brown (Bernie-Pinkard-Casey) by Brother Bones and his Shadows

Forever identified with the famed Harlem Globetrotters as the recording they played during pre-game warm-up, this unusual arrangement of the 1925 tune reached the national top-10 in January 1949 and featured "Brother Bones" Freeman Davis playing his percussive 'knuckle bones' accompanied by Herb Kern on the Novachord. It inspired another 'bones'-related hit later in the year in "Ain't She Sweet" by Mr. Ford & Mr. Goon-Bones (also posted).

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