Ella Fitzgerald in her 1942 film debut, singing her jazz hit “A-Tisket A’Tasket”
Ella Fitzgerald in her 1942 film debut, singing her jazz hit “A-Tisket A’Tasket”
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from the Abbott and Costello comedy “Ride ‘Em Cowboy”
If there has ever been a better voice in all of American popular music, I’ve never heard it. Ella forever!
She was fantastic! And this is a fun, very clean video.
Beautiful woman with a beautiful voice.
Perhaps there was some significance in the film of her coming up to the front of the bus – kinda shoving it in the face of all the racist practices that were so prevalent at the time 🤔
I love how she says “itty bitty”
One chuckle I get out of this scene after driving on thousands of miles of dirt roads myself was how there is no dust on the rear of the bus – Abbott and Costello should be covered in dust 🤔😁
I never noticed before … how tiny was that basket? (“A little girly picked it up and put it in her pocket.”)
THE greatest American female voice ever. Yes, Patsy Cline singing ‘Crazy” makes me catch my breath. Yes, I met Leontyne Price and Beverly Sills and was moved to tears by both. Yes, as a Texan I adore Janice Joplin and wept angry tears at her death. But Ella is IT.
I stand by what I have written.
I love her
I was 18, fresh out of high school and working as a dental assistant back in 1979. (Yes, it was on the job training back then) The dentist played this song all the time. I’d leave working singing it. It drove me crazy!
Soduwe soduwe soduwe
Found this: “In 1938, at the age of 21, Ella recorded A-Tisket, A-Tasket. The album* sold 1 million copies, hit number one, and stayed on the pop charts for 17 weeks. ”
*I think they mean the record, not the album?
Anyhow, interesting that the movie was released four years after the song was a such a hit.
Thanks to Fallout 4, I really love this type of music.
The location of her seat is a little on the nose
Those 40s era buses had great suspension. She’s not holding on or being jostled one iota.
I can’t help but notice – she has to sit in the back of the bus since segregation laws were still in effect in 1942
Edit – yes, framing and all, but it’s up for interpretation
I’m surprised those white conservative people didn’t freak out when she was freely walking in the front.
Was the world simpler back then or was popular entertainment just a dreamy veneer?
Love Ella and now I have sudden urge to play fallout, lol
It took me to the age range of 50 to learn that the thing she dropped wasn’t the letter. As a child I never knew this wasn’t a children’s song with only a few lines! It just never occurred to me that a basket would fit into a pocket I guess.
Another settlement needs your help.
I heard the Ella and Louis version of Summertime as a kid and it killed me then before I understood the words.
I’ve heard a million versions, but the way Ella sings “Summertiiiiiiime” gives me chills still.
I watched as a kid. it’s an Abbott and Costello film called, “Ride ’em Cowboy”
😍
Anyone else noticed that they had her sitting at the back of the bus with a bunch of white people?
thanks for posting this..I really mean that!
Apparently I used to regale my mum with a two year old’s version of this every night when she came to sleep in our shared bed. I knew every word and still do although of course then it was with a toddler’s pronunciation,
If you do not bring it back I know that I do cry, hey mum I do cry (repeated continually until she replied). Did you Jo? And then I would pretend to cry.
Now we have WAP
That was entrancing. God, she’s amazing. Thanks for sharing. Will be listening to more
Love Ella. Sadly I watch this and just see the racism, everybody’s white, Ella is at the back of the bus, entertaining the white people. It sours it for me.
No one commenting that the only place she sits down in the scene is the back of the bus…