Ja-Da

"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.

elected 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)
*God-des and She

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