Basketball Jones
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Basketball Jones is a 1974 animated short film based on the Cheech and Chong song, "Basketball Jones featuring Tyrone Shoelaces", from their album Los Cochinos. The cartoon was created to promote the song's release in the US. It is about black teenager called Tyrone Shoelaces and his love of basketball.
Musician credits for the original Cheech and Chong recording
- George Harrison - lead guitar
- Klaus Voorman - bass
- Jim Karsten - drums
- Jim Keltner - percussion
- Carole King - electric piano
- Nicky Hopkins - piano
- Tom Scott - saxaphone
- Billy Preston - organ
Basketball Jones is perhaps most well known for being featured in the 1979 Peter Sellers film Being There.
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Basketball Jones is also a song featured on the Space Jam sound track
