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Ada Jones

"Dixie" 1916 rendition of Dixie by the Metropolitan Mixed Chorus with Ada Jones and Billy Murray Shine On, Harvest Moon 1909 Edison Records recording of husband-and-wife team Jack Norworth and Nora Bayes' 1908 hit Shine On, Harvest Moon with Ada Jones and Billy Murray. Problems listening to the files? See media help.

Ada Jones (June 1, 1873 – May 22, 1922) was a popular singer who recorded from 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. She sang in a range of accents and dialects, notably Irish English. She died in North Carolina.

Some of her more popular songs included:

• "All She Gets from the Iceman is Ice" (1907)
• "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)
• "Blue Feather" (1909)
• "Come Josephine in My Flying Machine" (1911)
• "Be My Little Baby Bumble Bee" (1912)
• "Some Sunday Morning" (1918)
• "Don't Slam That Door" (1918) Edison 3135

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

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