SWEET GEORGIA BROWN

Created on 27/02/2002
Latest update on 03/05/2023

Artist: Ben Bernie
Author: Ben Bernie/Maceo Pinkard/Ken Casey
Label: Vocalion
Year: 1925

Bandleader, vaudeville and radio character, famous for his yell: 'Yow-say, Yow-say!' For being so kind to record it, his own name was added as coauthor.

Covers:

1925:

California Ramblers

1925:

Ethel Waters

1925:

Isham Jones

1930:

Red Nichols

1932:

Bing Crosby

1934:

Mills Brothers

1936:

Jimmy Noone

1937:

Coleman Hawkins [with Django Reinhardt]

1938:

Quintette du Hot Club de France [with Django Reinhardt]

1945:

Art Tatum

1949:

Brother Bones & his Shadows [theme of the Harlem Globetrotters while demonstrating their 'magic circles' basket ball routine]

1949:

Harry James

1950:

Tommy Dorsey

1957:

Coasters

1958:

Billy Vaughn

1958:

Pat Boone

1959:

Matty Malneck [in film Some Like It Hot]

1959:

Anita O'Day [in film Jazz On A Summer's Day]

1960:

Harry Reser

1961:

Thelonious Monk

1961:

Ray Charles

1962:

Tony Sheridan & The Beat Brothers

1963:

René & The Alligators

1963:

Billy Eckstine

1964:

Three Suns

1966:

Doc Watson

1967:

Nancy Sinatra

1971:

Jerry Lee Lewis

1983:

Dubliners

1999:

Algo Màs

2008:

Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis

2015:

BR5-49

2023:

Taj Mahal

Contact


If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:

Arnold Rypens
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B-2840 Reet (Rumst)

info@originals.be

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