Sound Recording
- Description
- Over the course of her 60–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 song called "A–Tisket, A–Tasket," basing her lyric on a 19th–century nursery rhyme. Her 1938 Decca recording of the song in time became a million–seller.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- sound recording
- recording artist
- Fitzgerald, Ella
- Chick Webb and his Orchestra
- performer
- Fitzgerald, Ella
- maker
- Decca
- performer
- Webb, Chick
- composer
- Feldman, Al
- Fitzgerald, Ella
- Gershwin, George
- Cahn
- Physical Description
- shellac (overall material)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 10 in; x 25.4 cm
- Place Made
- United States
- ID Number
- 1993.0102.041
- catalog number
- 1993.0102.041
- accession number
- 1993.0102
- maker number
- 1840
- subject
- Popular Entertainment
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
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