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...Hasty Pudding Theatricals. Over 40 years ago, Ella Fitzgerald, 63, had played at Harvard proms. In addition to Hasty Pudding's ritual gifts of a pudding pot and a dozen roses, Fitzgerald got a green-and-yellow basket to commemorate her 1938 hit recording of A-Tisket, A-Tasket. Said a cheery Ella: "Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there's love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong...
...club Fitzgerald was awarded the traditional golden "pudding pot" as well as a green and yellow construction paper basket in honor of her first million-seller. "A Tisket, A-Tasket...
...originals, she respects their integrity, if they have any. Her imitators shred songs; she explodes and reassembles them. Much of her genius in performance may arise from her ability to write songs as well as sing them. She made her name, after all, when she wrote A-Tisket A-Tasket in 1938, turning a nursery rhyme into the No. 1 tune in the nation...
...Very First Time (Glenn Miller and his Orchestra; RCA, 3 LPs). A resurrection of 50 previously unreleased recordings of Miller broadcasts dating from the early '40s, when the band was in its roaring prime. The selections-I Cried For You, A-Tisket A-Tasket, Sweet and Low-carry a mistily nostalgic air, the big band sound is refulgent, and the phonograph shivers to a boldly swinging beat that has all but disappeared from the modern dance orchestra...
...voice, Ella has filled the smoke-blurred spotlight for well over a "decade. She has filled it almost as long upstairs in the air-conditioned, palm-frond land of popular dance music. In 1938 she became a national hit when her record of her own song A-Tisket A-Tasket began the fad for swinging nursery rhymes. In 1946 she recorded a cold-blooded Calypso song, Stone Cold Dead in the Market, which became another national bestseller. Says her No. 1 fan, Bing Crosby: "Man, woman or child, Ella is the greatest singer of them...