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For the Gilmore Girls episode, see A-Tisket, A-Tasket (Gilmore Girls).

A Tisket, A Tasket is a nursery rhyme from the 19th century. In 1938 the rhyme inspired a song written by Al Feldman and Ella Fitzgerald, and was performed by Fitzgerald in the 1942 film, Ride 'Em Cowboy. Ella's recording was then inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1986, which honors recordings that are at least twenty-five years old, and have "qualitative or historical significance."¹

Trivia

The jazz vocal group Manhattan Transfer has also recorded the song.

Regina Carter has recorded a version on her CD "I'll Be Seeing You: A Sentimental Journey."

"A-tisket, a-tasket" is the first line of the third stanza on Eminem's "Without Me" (2002). It is also the first line of the third verse of Stevie Ray Vaughan's "Mary Had A Little Lamb."

Included in the medley of songs from the Tomorrowland attraction "America Sings" ('74-'88) at Disneyland.

A variation on the rhyme was created for advertising the Nabisco cracker called "Triscuits", which rhymes with "biscuit" and also with "tisket".

Footnotes

^ Grammy Hall of Fame Database