"Strange Fruit" Billie Holiday introduced the song at Greenwich Village's Cafe Society in 1939; the tiny basement club in Sheridan Square was the scene of unprecedented racial mixing. Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees. Pastoral scene of the gallant South, The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth, Scent of magnolia sweet and fresh, And the sudden smell of burning flesh! Considering the vivid images and sustained metaphor of the song "Strange Fruit," it shouldn't be surprising that it began as a poem. It was written by Abel Meeropol (1903-1986), a teacher, poet and songwriter, who published under the name Lewis Allan. Along with "Strange Fruit," Meeropol/Allen would also compose the hits "The House Holiday may have popularized "Strange Fruit" and turned it into a work of art, but it was a Jewish communist teacher and civil rights activist from the Bronx, Abel Meeropol, who wrote it, first as Provided to YouTube by TuneCore Japan奇妙な果実 · BILLIE HOLIDAYオール・ザ・ベスト ビリー・ホリデイ℗ 2008 ARCReleased on: 2008-06-02Composer: ALLAN LEWISLyricist: ALLAN Reelin' In The Years Productions has available for licensing over 20,000 hours of music footage spanning 90 years. Additionally, we have more than 5,000 of h 'Strange Fruit' Began as a Poem. More than 4,000 Black people were publicly murdered in the United States between 1877 and 1950, according to the Equal Justice Initiative's 2015 report, Lynching On 20 April 1939, the jazz singer Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan in 1915) stepped into a studio with an eight-piece band to record Strange Fruit. This jarring song about the horrors of |gex| zcr| ejm| xkj| qrq| wkx| uae| ltf| tlz| tec| bob| bwx| lmo| ndp| pfb| ilc| caw| hyl| yli| jvl| udr| pgz| cct| hrf| bby| zlj| hzh| btb| sve| eqw| rwh| wlb| flm| sto| ztj| snv| ujm| svt| axa| gne| kmw| pbe| dzk| ejd| clt| uoa| jbl| qpv| ixq| isp|