Countess Ada DeLachau

Musician
Best known for Songwriter

Countess Ada DeLachau was an early-twentieth-century American songwriter credited with publishing the children’s play-party song “Li’l Liza Jane” in 1916 — the version that Earl Fuller’s Famous Jazz Band introduced on record in 1917 and that has since circulated through old-time string-band, jazz, and folk-revival recordings.

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  • Published “Li’l Liza Jane” in 1916, the first commercial print appearance of the long-circulating American play-party song.
  • Earl Fuller’s Famous Jazz Band cut the first commercial recording of the song in 1917.
  • The song has since been recorded by Fats Domino and Dave Bartholomew, Huey “Piano” Smith, Pete Seeger, and many country, jazz, and folk-revival acts.

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