Every time I hear the song "Sweet Georgia Brown" I instantly think of the Harlem Globetrotters. What other songs are so connected to a team, event, or place?
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I saw the Globetrotters back in the 70's with Meadowlark Lemon and Curly and all those classic guys. One of the highlights of my childhood.
Jeff
“Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing”--Voltaire
I saw the Globetrotters back in the 70's with Meadowlark Lemon and Curly and all those classic guys. One of the highlights of my childhood.
Me too! In an old National Guard armory... and Satchel Paige was at courtside that night telling stories and signing autographs... It is a memory that I will always cherish
Me too! In an old National Guard armory... and Satchel Paige was at courtside that night telling stories and signing autographs... It is a memory that I will always cherish
Not quite a sports team, but closely related: Dixie, Salvation is Created and Quilting Party will always remind me of The Marching Southerners of Jacksonville State, in J'ville, AL.
Then again, I marched with this band for 3 years. What an incredible group of musicians.
"It's a dog eat dog world out there, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear."- Norm (from Cheers)
BESIDES SPORTS, what other songs spring to mind that you heard when famous events happened?
Any of the Kennedy's assisinations, the shuttles exploding, etc.
She couldn't tell the difference between the escape pod, and the bathroom. We had to go back for her.........................Twice.
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