Ja-Da
"Ja-Da " is a hit song written in 1918 by Bob Carleton. The title is sometimes rendered simply as "Jada." The song has flourished through the decades as a jazz standard.
In his definitive American Popular Songs, Alec Wilder writes about the song's simplicity:
Selected renditions
- Player piano roll, Vocalstyle Company, #11302. Vodvil Series, as played by Cliff Hess
- 1918 — Original New Orleans Jazz Band
- 1918 — Arthur Fields
- 1938 — Tommy Ladnier and Sidney Bechet
- 1939 — Alice Faye sings it in the musical film Rose of Washington Square
- 1945 — Bunk Johnson and Don Ewell
- 1947 — Frank Sinatra & Peggy Lee
- 1947 — Muggsy Spanier
- 1954 — Big Chief Jazzband
- 1955 — Marian McPartland - At the Hickory House
- 1957 — Pee Wee Hunt
- 1958 — Ted Heath Orchestra
- 1961 — Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons
- 1966 — The Fireballs
- 1982, 1986, and 1987 — Musical entertainers Sharon, Lois & Bram & The Mammoth Band, recorded live and in studio
- Al Hirt
- Oscar Peterson
- Erroll Garner
- Louis Armstrong
- Al Jarreau
- Hot Tuna as "Keep On Truckin'"
- Johnny and The Hurricanes
- Bobby Hackett
- God-des and She
- Scott Walker chorus sung in song "Psoriatic" from 2006's The Drift
- Sonny Rollins 're-invented it' using the Ja-Da chords for his composition "Doxy" in 1954.
Comedy rendition
- In the 1970s, the tune was appropriated by the Canadian comedy duo Maclean and Maclean, who recorded it as their signature piece, with bawdy lyrics added.