Word: tasket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
Divorced. By Ella Fitzgerald, 35, buxom Negro jazz songstress (A Tisket, A Tasket): her second husband, Bass Fiddle Player Ray Brown, 33; after almost five years of marriage, no children; in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico...
...Afrikaans, Palmolive's commercial, sung to the tune of "A Tisket, A Tasket," goes like this...
...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...