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Ada Jones

Ada Jones (June 1, 1873 – May 22, 1922) was a popular singer who recorded between 1905 to the early 1920s. Born in the United Kingdom, her family moved to Philadelphia in 1879. She started performing on stage, but moved to recording in 1905. She recorded several duets with Billy Murray and Len Spencer. The duets with Murray were often conversational, with the two singing to the other, often in the voices of different characters with a range of accents and dialects. She died in North Carolina.

Some of her more popular songs included::

"I Just Can't Make My Eyes Behave" (1907)
"The Yama Yama Man" (1909)
"I've Got Rings On My Fingers" (1909)
"Call Me Up Some Rainy Afternoon" (1910)
"Row! Row! Row!" (1913)
Now I Have to Call Him "Father" (1908)

Duets with Billy Murray:

"Let's Take an Old-Fashioned Walk" (1907)
"School Days" (1907)
"Wouldn't You Like to Have Me for a Sweetheart?" (1908)
"Cuddle Up a Little Closer, Lovey Mine" (1908)
"Shine On, Harvest Moon" (1909)
"Come Josephine in My Flying Machine" (1911)
"Be My Little Baby Bumble Bee" (1912)

"Dixie" (file info) — play in browser (beta)
- 1916 rendition of Dixie by the Metropolitan Mixed Chorus, with Frank Stanley, Ada Jones, and Billy Murray
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External links

Works by Ada Jones at Project Gutenberg
Ada Jones recordings at the Internet Archive
Ada Jones cylinder recordings, from the Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara Library.
Ada Jones at Find-A-Grave

This biographical information was gathered from the Ada_Jones page, courtesy of the Wikipedia project.

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