Billie Holiday: Strange Fruit

depainter Says:

Feb 18, 2012 - It's even stranger when you know that the song was written by the man who adopted the Rosenberg children, Lewis Allen

TheHeavyMetald00d Says:

Feb 18, 2012 - This is a wonderful song. I've always been attracted to dark and heavy music. While Itend to lean more towrds heavy metal music, a song like this appeals for the same reason. Such sad subject matter though. it is hauting, beautiful and chilling all at once. A shame more people my age and younger are not familiar with such a talented artist.

terrance800 Says:

Feb 21, 2012 - How can you possibly dislike this song, this is about african americans such as me getting hanged and burned by whites,it is a very haunting ,sad , and NON-humorous song , three people obviosly are not getting the picture that this song was made a the hardest point of life in america,as people go around promoting racism,other people are trying to escape it and hopefully America or any other country never experiences this ever again

Lyiad Says:

Feb 26, 2012 - This song is terrifyingly eerie while being simultaneously classy and insightful, combined with her beauty and her strong voice just makes the subject all the more poignant, powerful and sobering.

MadvilleDynasty1 Says:

Feb 27, 2012 - I played this song with lil jon - throw it up instrumental behind it n it still goes hard than 2 mugs

Blitznstitch2 Says:

Feb 29, 2012 - 2 mugs? why not 3 pitchers or 5 vases...hmm?

jillionmillion Says:

Mar 2, 2012 - shame on YOU

queenval27 Says:

Mar 3, 2012 - :(

madking241 Says:

Mar 4, 2012 - and yet you can still see the southern flag fly in the south... the swastika, and southern flag. all looks the fucking same. and yet the swastika does not ever fly in Germany? pisses me off.

ViciAmbience Says:

Apr 7, 2012 - The swastika doesn't fly in Germany for obvious reasons. Germans are not Nazis.

1SamCox Says:

Apr 10, 2012 - i am 19 and from a lower class background and it hurts me that my friends and those of my age do not recognize the beauty of the instruments, the passion in her voice, and the significance of the poetry. if a generation were brought up on music like this again maybe we would not be fooled by the over produced, soulless music of today and would recognize true art....

jbevan70 Says:

Apr 12, 2012 - This song always gives me chills. Lynching is one of the most horrifying and painful ways to kill someone. And sadly, it still goes on today (just look at what happens to gays in the Middle East.)

xxxM4RV1Nxxx Says:

Apr 15, 2012 - OMG! so beautifull Voice o_o

katiewoman Says:

Apr 15, 2012 - I'm 22, from an upper-middle class background, raised in the middle of shallow peers and hollow music and I could not agree with you more.If I were to show this to my friends they would look at me as though I were crazy for listening to such music.It does upset me greatly that one day, this amazing, truthful, sorrowul music with such hauntingly true lyrics will be forgotten.

Jessimus Says:

Apr 15, 2012 - You should show it to your friends anyway! :) They might just need a good example. It's music like this and other meaningful songs that can wake people to consciousness

Jessimus Says:

Apr 15, 2012 - I agree. My teacher at college pointed me toward this, first time I ever heard it. Hauntingly beautiful, and a real persons real experience put in song

KasumiDOA3 Says:

Apr 17, 2012 - I can't stop the tears now. This song is so hauntingly beautiful...so sad and pure with the grief...It breaks my heart,

MegaMusicman09 Says:

Apr 18, 2012 - Thankyou................

SawahBearGoesRawr Says:

Apr 19, 2012 - Billie Holiday's voice gives me the chills every time I hear her. There are no words to describe how wonderful she is.I remember the first time I heard this song, we were reading the Invisible Man for class and my instructor made a soundtrack to go with the book and this was in it.

soap1919jt Says:

Apr 20, 2012 - It was on this day (April 20) in 1939 that Billie recorded this, the first Civil Rights song. She recorded this at Cafe Society, New York's first integrated nightclub in Greenwich Village.This song was from a poem written by Abel Meeropol, a Jewish high-school teacher from the Bronx, about the lynching of two black men.

soap1919jt Says:

Apr 20, 2012 - (continued) Meeropol published under the pen name Lewis Allan, derived from two children he lost in their infancy.Barney Josephson, founder of Cafe Society, insisted that Billie close all her shows with this song. Each time she'd perform it, the waiters stopped serving, the club lights were turned off, and a single spotlight illuminated Billie on stage.

GreenRad2012 Says:

Apr 22, 2012 - search for "without sanctuary lynchings" on the big "g" search engine. the first listing will be a link to a site which will show you, in the form of =photographs= exactly what this song is about---

renew2day Says:

Apr 24, 2012 - Viola Davis gave a gut-wrenching performance in "The Help"! But those who witnessed the way it was in the south at that time period, tell me it was much worse!Still, Viola Davis steered me into awareness of the black experience, when they were "invisible".

renew2day Says:

Apr 24, 2012 - My late cousin was a jazz buff. Billie Holiday was her hero. No one could touch her, in her opinion. It was such a powerful opinion, that she would give up your friendship if you opined otherwise. She saw her in person at a concert.And she couldn't stand those she called "the screamers, the yellers"!

wcu1catamount Says:

May 15, 2012 - I beg your pardon but the Confederate flag was not originally nor intentionally a racist symbol. It originally was a flag of unified states who felt they had a right to leave an oppressive government. It wasn't until after the Civil War that imbeciles took the flag as their own campaign of racism. The brave men that fought and died for that flag had no idea that fools would turn it into a symbol of racism that it should not be.