Jad Paul (June 16, 1916 – December 29, 2008) was an American musician, most noted for being one of the original members of Spike Jones' band "The City Slickers".
In the early 1950s, he performed with Freddy Morgan on recordings credited to The Banjo Maniacs, The Happy Harts and The Sunnysiders (including the popular "Hey, Mr.
After leaving Jones, he performed for local Los Angeles television station KTLA, on the weekly program Polka Parade, which included fellow prior "Slickers" members Bernie Jones and Joe "Country" Washburn.
One unusual trait of Honeysuckle Rose was Paul playing the guitar and scatting in unison in a manner similar to George Benson at least a couple decades later.Bassist Slam Stewart had already done something similar with scatting with bowed bass fiddle about a decade earlier.
Paul was inducted into the National Four-String Banjo Hall of Fame in 2008.