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

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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.

THE 1949 HITS ARCHIVE - here in one place, a good-quality library of original-release-version best-sellers and songs that made an impact that were either released or enjoyed a major chunk of their popularity within the calendar year 1949 (some were recorded in 1948). .
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