The Wiggles and the basketball exhibition team the Harlem Globetrotters have teamed up to launch a music video featuring stars from both groups. 

The video “Bouncing Balls” will launch first on the Wiggles YouTube channel (3.8 million subscribers) on September 5, and will be available on Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon Music shortly after that. The Aussie musical group and the basketball players sing, dance and play some b-ball together in the video, which remixes the Wiggles song “Bouncing Balls” with “Sweet Georgia Brown” (the 1925 jazz standard that the Globetrotters use as their theme song) over a hip-hop beat. 

Expanding into music was a natural next step for the basketball team, as the Globetrotter brand is already an iconic name in kids and family entertainment, said Keith Dawkins, president of Harlem Globetrotters and Herschend Entertainment Studios. 

The Globetrotters, who began playing ball as a team in 1926, have been reviving their TV and media presence in recent years. Some of these efforts include facing their long-time rivals, the Washington Generals, in a game that was broadcasted live on August 18, and starring in the series Harlem Globetrotters: Play it Forward (their first piece of network television in 40 years), which premiered in October 2022 on NBC. The team also has a residency at the American Dream Meadowlands mall in New Jersey that started August 16 and runs until August 25.

The Wiggles have recently been on a team-up tear, creating music videos with some of today’s biggest kids entertainers, including Ms. Rachel, Moonbug’s Blippi and characters from Sesame Workshop. The musical group has been performing for more than 30 years and has sold more than 30 million albums and DVDs globally.