"A-Tisket A-Tasket"
date: label: publishing date
content: 1938
name: label: lyricist
content: Fitzgerald, Ella
label: publisher
content: Robbins Music Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This sheet music is for the song "A-Tisket A-Tasket," with words and music by Ella Fitzgerald and Al Feldman. It was published by Robbins Music Corp. in New York, New York in 1938. There is an image of band leader Charles Baum on the cover.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Over the course of her sixty-year career, Ella Fitzgerald (1917–1996) became known to fans and colleagues as "The First Lady of Song." Her rise to international fame as a jazz and popular singer coincided with the rise of an American entertainment industry that brought music to millions through concerts, sound recordings, film, radio, and television. In 1938, Fitzgerald came up with the idea for a song called "A-Tisket, A-Tasket," basing her lyric on a 19th–century nursery rhyme. Her 1938 Decca recording of the song over time became a million–seller.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Sheet Music
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.1117.04
label: accession number
content: 1984.1117
label: catalog number
content: 1984.1117.04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sheet music
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 in x 9 in; 30.48 cm x 22.86 cm