Sweet Georgia Brown

The story goes that bandleader Ben Bernie met Dr. George Thaddeus Brown, a long serving Georgia state legislator, who told him about his daughter Georgia Brown, born in 1911. Bernie and Maceo Pinkard wrote the song in 1925, with lyrics credited to Kenneth Casey, and Bernie's Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra recording is said to have spent five weeks at number one. Brother Bones and His Shadows recorded a whistling version in 1949 that the Harlem Globetrotters made their theme a few years later.