"Cherokee" (1938) is a jazz standard - also known as "Cherokee (Indian Love Song)" - written by Ray Noble and originally intended as the first of five movements for an "Indian Suite" (Cherokee, Comanche War Dance, Iroquois, Seminole, and Sioux Sue). "Cherokee" has been recorded over the years by many jazz musicians and singers, including Charlie Parker, Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra (1939), the Count Basie Orchestra, Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughan (1955), and Keely Smith.