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Cherokee (Ray Noble song) Ko" has a partially improvised head and the chords are based on "Cherokee". It also formed the basis of Buddy DeFranco "Swinging the Indian". The song was used in "Jam Session" (1944), "Jasper in a Jam" (1946), sung by Peggy Lee, "The Gene Krupa Story" (1959), and as background music in "Racing with the Moon" (1984) and "Lush Life" (1993), a TV movie starring Jeff Goldblum and Kathy Baker. Cherokee (Ray Noble song) "Cherokee" (also known as "Cherokee (Indian Love Song)") is a jazz standard written by Ray Noble and published in 1938. It was originally intended as the first