Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
(Tempo TR 652)
Brother Bones And His Shadows
(Titled as novelty version of the song)
Brother Bones: playing his percussive knuckle bones.
Herb Kern: Novachord.
"Sweet Georgia Brown" is a jazz standard composed in 1925 by Ben Bernie and Maceo Pinkard, with lyrics by Kenneth Casey.
One of the most popular versions of "Sweet Georgia Brown" was recorded in 1949 by Brother Bones and His Shadows and later adopted as the theme song of the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team in 1952.
Freeman Davis (October 4, 1902 – June 14, 1974 was an American whistling and bone playing recording artist best known by his stage names "Brother Bones" and "Whistling Sam".
(Tempo TR 652)
Brother Bones And His Shadows
(Titled as novelty version of the song)
Brother Bones: playing his percussive knuckle bones.
Herb Kern: Novachord.
"Sweet Georgia Brown" is a jazz standard composed in 1925 by Ben Bernie and Maceo Pinkard, with lyrics by Kenneth Casey.
One of the most popular versions of "Sweet Georgia Brown" was recorded in 1949 by Brother Bones and His Shadows and later adopted as the theme song of the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team in 1952.
Freeman Davis (October 4, 1902 – June 14, 1974 was an American whistling and bone playing recording artist best known by his stage names "Brother Bones" and "Whistling Sam".
