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Ja-da




A little 16-bar tune, Carleton penned it when he was club pianist in Illinois. Carleton 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.


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