In a collaboration that lasted for only one song, three musicians in the early 20th century penned one of those tunes that is instantly recognizable, more than 80 years after it debuted. The song is "Sweet Georgia Brown", rich in a double beat that was reminiscent of the Charleston. It became highly popular, and was used for a variety of movies and theatrical productions, as well as many recordings.

It was one of these Victrola records that were played in and around the barbershops of Montgomery, Alabama where "Whistling Same" made his living shining shoes, while whistling to the tunes he heard. Sometimes he added in a little rag snapping, some tap dancing, and when not shining shoes, he played the bones.

"Sam", whose real name was Freeman Davis, (also known as "Brother Bones"), took his talents on the road, where he would one day be discovered playing in a Chinese restaurant in Los Angeles, by the president of Tempo records. By the late 1940s, Victrolas were now playing his recording of "Sweet Georgia Brown", complete with the bone cracking and sharp whistling he was famous for.

However, the song's greatest exposure has come not through records, but through sports. For that recording was adopted in 1952, as the official theme song of the famed Harlem Globetrotters, and is played before and during every game.