Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit flac album

Produced by Barney Josephson. Album Jazz at the Philharmonic. Strange Fruit Lyrics. About Strange Fruit. This song, written by Abel Meeropol and performed by many artists (but most notably, Billie Holiday and Nina Simone,) is a dark and profound song about the lynching of African Americans in the Southern United States during the Jim Crow Era. In the lyrics, black victims are portrayed as strange fruit, as they hang from trees, rotting in the sun, blowing in the wind, and becoming food for crows upon being burned. It was a protest song that Billie Holiday very bravely performed under grave threats and at high personal cost.

For the 1959 album originally titled Billie Holiday, see Last Recording. American jazz singer and songwriter. Holiday at the Downbeat Jazz Club in New York City, 1947. Background information In 1940, Billboard began publishing its modern pop charts, which included the Best Selling Retail Records chart, the precursor to the Hot 100. None of Holiday's songs placed on the modern pop charts, partly because Billboard only published the first ten slots of the charts in some issues.

Strange Fruit" is a song performed most famously by Billie Holiday, who first sang and recorded it in 1939. Written by teacher Abel Meeropol as a poem and published in 1937, it protested American racism, particularly the lynching of African Americans. Such lynchings had reached a peak in the South at the turn of the century, but continued there and in other regions of the United States. The great majority of victims were black.

Lyrics to "Strange Fruit" song by Billie Holiday: Southern trees bear a strange fruit Blood on the leaves and blood at the root Black bodies swinging. Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck For the sun to rot, for the tree to drop Here is a strange and bitter crop. Writer(s): LEWIS ALLAN. B. Billie Holiday Lyrics. album: "Lady Sings The Blues" (1956).

Artists Billie Holiday Strange Fruit. Strange Fruit Billie Holiday. This album has an average beat per minute of 102 BPM (slowest/fastest tempos: 62/132 BPM). See its BPM profile at the bottom of the page. Tracklist Strange Fruit. BPM Profile Strange Fruit. Album starts at 62BPM, ends at 132BPM (+70), with tempos within the -BPM range. Try refreshing the page if dots are missing). Recent albums by Billie Holiday. The Centennial Collection. This Is Billie Holiday. Eight Classic Albums.

Strange Fruit is the second solo album by Trijntje Oosterhuis and was released on March 22, 2004 on Blue Note records. Trijntje's solo debut album was well received, and consisted mainly of pop ballads not reflective of her personal fondness for jazz. During 2003 Trijntje made a tour with the Amsterdam Sinfonietta and the Houdini's playing covers of Billie Holiday and George Gershwin.

This song is by Billie Holiday and appear. outhern trees bear a strange fruitBlood on the leaves and blood at the rootBlack bodies swingin' in the Southern breezeStrange fruit hangin' from the poplar trees. Pastoral scene of the gallant SouthThe bulgin' eyes and the twisted mouthScent of magnolias sweet and freshThen the sudden smell of burnin' flesh.

Southern trees bear a strange fruit,, Blood on the leaves and blood at the root . Eleanora Fagan (April 7, 1915 †July 17, 1959), better known as Billie Holiday, was an American jazz singer with a career spanning nearly thirty years. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner Lester Young, Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz music and pop singing. Eleanora Fagan (April 7, 1915 †July 17, 1959), better known as Billie Holiday, was an American jazz singer with a career spanning nearly thirty years