Wikipedia / Ja-Da
Wikipedia / Ja-Da
"Ja-Da (Ja Da, Ja Da, Jing, Jing, Jing!)" 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
1939 Alice Faye sings it in the musical film Rose of Washington Square (1939)
1954 Big Chief Jazzband (on the 78 rpm record His Master's Voice A.L.3401)
1982, 1986, and 1987 Musical entertainers Sharon, Lois & Bram & The Mammoth Band, recorded live and in studio
Hot Tuna as "Keep On Truckin'"
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.
In popular culture
In Jack Finney's 1995 novel From Time to Time, the time-traveling protagonist recalls a childhood memory of his aunt dressing up in her old flapper costume and dancing the Charleston He associates the tune with a stylish young woman he meets in 1912, whom he calls "the Jotta Girl," a character who later becomes central to the novel’s plot. (The reference is anachronistic, as "Ja-Da" was not composed until 1918.)
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