I discovered this by accident, recently; I was looking for a video of the Globetrotters’ “Sweet Georgia Brown” theme song – the whistling version which, for some reason, I put together with the team very strongly in my mind – and instead found this opening title sequence from their 1970s cartoon, complete with a surprisingly funky theme from Jeff Barry. The basketball bounce beat and military-esque whistle, leading into the horns and harmonized vocals… Man. Did kids in the 1970s realize that they were listening to a zenith in cartoon music at the time, do you think?
(I’ve since found out that Barry released an album of the music he did for the show; if it was all as good as this, I have to admit that I’d eagerly pick up a copy if I ever found one.)