Rare Treats: The Globetrotters album (1970)

 Pop impresario Don Kirshner, while still pumping out Archies records, added the Harlem Globetrotters to his music stable, coinciding with the team's first animated series in 1970.

Reportedly, the players actually recorded the songs themselves, backed by a studio band. This would explain why Meadowlark Lemon was credited on the show, but not other players like Curly Neal and Herbert "Geese" Ausbie.

Some of you might recognize this track, "Meadowlark", used in an episode of the series. The big surprise? Co-written by pop icon Neil Sedaka with Howard Greenfield. This might've inspired Sedaka to start recording his own songs again four years later.

We've got a screen cap of the actual 7" single, instead of using episode footage, which for this particular song may not be available right now.

Sedaka, Greenfield, & Jeff Barry were the principal songwriters on the album.