Ja-Da
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Ja-Da (Ja Da, Ja Da, Jing, Jing, Jing!) was a hit song written in 1918 by Bob Carleton (surname is often misspelled as Carlton). The title is sometimes rendered as "Jada". Ja-Da has flourished through the decades as a jazz standard.
Carleton penned the 16-bar tune when he was club pianist in Illinois and first popularized it with singer Cliff Edwards. The sheet music for Ja-Da was published in 1918 by Leo Feist, Inc., New York.
The tune was briefly famous, then spent 35 years as a well known standard.
Sonny Rollins 're-invented it' using the Ja-Da chords for his composition Doxy in 1954.
[edit] Selected Renditions of Ja-Da
- Player piano roll, Vocalstyle Company, #11302. Vodvil Series, as played by Cliff Hess
- 1918 — Original New Orleans Jazz Band
- 1919 — Arthur Fields with Billy Murray
- 1938 — Tommy Ladnier and Sidney Bechet
- 1945 — Bunk Johnson and Don Ewell
- 1947 — Frank Sinatra & Peggy Lee
- 1947 — Muggsy Spanier
- 1958 — Ted Heath Orchestra
- Al Hirt
- Oscar Peterson
- Louis Armstrong
- Al Jarreau
- Bobby Hackett
- 1977 in music — Jefferson Airplane, from the compilation album, Flight Log, Grunt (record label), RCA (distributor)
