Ada Jones

Ada Jones
Lični podaci
Datum rođenja	(1873-06-01)1. 6. 1873. Lancashire, Engleska, Ujedinjeno Kraljevstvo
Datum smrti	2. 5. 1922. (dob: 48) Sjeverna Karolina, SAD
Porijeklo	Lancashire, Engleska, Ujedinjeno Kraljevstvo
Zanimanje	pjevačica, glumica
Muzički rad
Žanr	pjevanje

Ada Jones (1. jun 1873 – 2. maj 1922)^[1] bila je američka pjevačica rodom iz Engleske koja je stekla popularnost u SAD početkom 20. vijeka. Kao dijete je nastupala u glumeći teatru, a 1890-ih je snimila nekoliko ploča. Međutim, njena karijera je zapravo počela 1905. godine. Snimila je nekoliko dueta s Billyjem Murrayem i Lenom Spencerom.

Umrla je od zatajenja bubrega na turneji, ostavivši iza sebe supruga Hugha Flahertyja i kći.

Pjesme

• "Don't Get Married Any More, Ma" (1906, 1907; više snimaka)
• "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)

Dueti s Billyjem Murrayem:

• "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)
• "I Can't Say You're the Only One" (1909) (Edison Standard Record: 10069)
• "Can't You See I Love You" (1909) (Edison Standard Record: 10190)
• "Googy-oo" (1909) (Edison Amberol: 211)
• "Blue Feather" (1909)
• "Come Josephine in My Flying Machine" (1911)
• "Be My Little Baby Bumble Bee" (1912)
• "Some Sunday Morning" (1918)

"Dixie" verzija Dixieja koju izvoi Metropolitan Mixed Chorus zajedno s Adom Jones i Billyjem Murrayjem Shine On, Harvest Moon snimka Edison Recordsa iz 1909. godine u kojoj hit-pjesmu Jacka Norwortha i Nore Bayes' Shine On, Harvest Moon izvode Ada Jones i Billy Murray "Whistle and I'll Wait for You" solo snimka iz 1909.

Reference

1. „Songwriters Hall of Fame”. Arhivirano iz originala na datum 2016-07-14. Pristupljeno 2010-05-13. 

Vanjske veze

• Djela čiji je autor Ada Jones na Projektu 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
• Discography of Ada Jones on Victor Records from the Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Recordings (EDVR)