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A-Tisket, A-Tasket" (Roud Folk Song Index 13188) is a nursery rhyme first recorded in America in the late 19th century. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The melody to which the nursery rhyme is sung recurs in other nursery rhymes including " It's Raining, It's Pouring "; " Rain Rain Go Away " and " Ring around the Rosie ".
Ella Fitzgerald at the Newport Jazz Festival: Live at Carnegie Hall is a 1973 live album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by a reconstructed Chick Webb Band, the pianist Ellis Larkins, and for the second half of the album, the Tommy Flanagan Quartet (featuring Joe Pass).
According to The New York Times and The Prison Public Memory Project, 15-year-old Ella had been living on the streets of Harlem, working as a lookout either for a bordello or a bookie, when she was picked up by the police, eventually being sent upstate to the New York Training School for Girls, where conditions were notoriously bad. [2]
A-Tisket, A-Tasket" became a hit for Webb and Ella Fitzgerald, becoming one of her signature tunes. Alexander arranged other nursery rhymes for jazz, such as " Where, Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone? " and "Got a Pebble in My Shoe".
"A-Tisket, A-Tasket" became a major hit on the radio and was also one of the biggest-selling records of the decade. [17] [21] Webb died of spinal tuberculosis on June 16, 1939, [22] and his band was renamed Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra, with Fitzgerald taking on the role of bandleader. [23]
“Advocating for somebody like Ella Fitzgerald when she didn't have to and unpopular, this speaks to her principles,” Historian Michele Mitchell said. “Ella did say Marilyn Monroe was ahead ...
February – Recording of 'A-Tisket, A-Tasket' turned out by Ella Fitzgerald and Chick Webb for Decca has established a new eight-year high in sales for the industry. The sales on this 35c have already gone over 250,000.
Ella Fitzgerald released many stand alone singles throughout her Verve years. These were re-issued in 2003 on the 2-CD set, Jukebox Ella: The Complete Verve Singles, Vol. 1 . The late 1960s and early 1970s saw Fitzgerald release albums on several major record labels, including three albums on Capitol Records and two on the Reprise Records label.