Anton Lada

Anton Lada (September 25, 1890 – August 28, 1944)^[1] was a ragtime, jazz and dance musician.^[2] He was a drummer. He played with and was the manager of the Louisiana Five.^[3] He recorded on Columbia Records and toured.^[4] Lada performed for dancing and vaudeville shows and made a series of recordings for Emerson Records, Edison Records, and Columbia Records.

Lada on drums with the Louisiana Five

He is credited as co-composer of a number of tunes with Spencer Williams, most successfully the "Arkansas Blues".

After the breakup of his first Louisiana Five, he formed a series of his own bands before launching a new "Original Louisiana Five" band and moving to Hollywood to do film scores.^[5]

Lada was born in Prague in the Kingdom of Bohemia and moved with his family to Chicago as a child.^[5]

Lada formed various bands and made recordings with them.^[6][7]

He composed "Let Us Be Sweethearts Again" with Ernie Erdman in 1921.^[8] He copyrighted "Neglected Blues" with Williams.^[9]

Harry L. Alford arranged some of his songs.^[which?]

Discography

• "Your Voice at Twilight", words by McElbert Moore^[10]
• "Uncle Blues" (1920)^[10]
• "At Parson Jenkins' Ball (1920), words by Ed Sanford and arranged by Ray Brost^[10]
• "Blue Jay Blues" (1920) with Frank Rizzo^[10]
• "California Blossom" (1920), with Spencer Williams^[10]