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Thread #166269 Message #3996013
Posted By: Joe Offer
11-Jun-19 - 03:43 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: A-Tisket, A-Tasket
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: A-Tisket, A-Tasket
There's an interesting article about the song at the Smithsonian Institution Website: There sure isn't much information about "Tisket-Tasket" as a nursery rhyme or play-party game. It's not listed in any of the Opie books I have. It would be nice to find a printed source earlier than Ella Fitzgerald. I checked Google Books, and the one-and-only 19th-century reference I find to the names Tisket and Tasket together, is the 1884 story Phil found (reprinted in another book in 1885). So, I guess we can say that the earliest printed version of the verse that we found is in a story titled In No-Man's Land by Elbridge S. Brooks, published in an 1884 collection titled Wide Awake, Volume 18, pp 400-402. So, was Brooks the author of the rhyme?
There's a nice page on the song at https://www.mamalisa.com/?t=es&p=2275.
-Joe-