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It protests the of Black Americanswith lyrics that compare the victims to the fruit of trees. Such had reached a peak in the Southern United States at the turn of the 20th century, and the great majority of victims were black. Meeropol set Strange Fruit 1st edition lyrics to music with his wife and singer Laura Duncan and performed it as a protest song in City venues in the late s, including Madison Square Garden. Diana Ross recorded the song for her debut film, the biopic Lady Sings the Bluesand it was included on the chart topping soundtrack album. Holiday's version was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in First performed by Meeropol's wife and their Strange Fruit 1st edition in social contexts, [10] his protest song gained a certain success in and around New York. The lyrics are under copyright but have been republished in full in an academic journal, with permission. She said that singing it made her fearful of retaliation but, because its imagery reminded her of her father, she continued to sing the piece, making it a regular part of her live performances. Holiday approached her recording label, Columbia, about the song, but the company feared reaction by record retailers in the Southas well as negative reaction from affiliates of its co-owned radio network, CBS. Because Gabler worried the song was too short, he asked pianist Sonny White to improvise an introduction. On the recording, Holiday starts singing after 70 seconds. Holiday recorded two major sessions of the song at Commodore, one in and one in The song was highly regarded; the recording eventually sold a million copies, [7] in time becoming Holiday's biggest-selling recording. In her autobiography, Lady Sings the BluesHoliday suggested that she, together with Meeropol, her accompanist Sonny White, and arranger Danny Mendelsohn, set the poem to music. The writers David Margolick and Hilton Als dismissed Strange Fruit 1st edition claim in their work Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Songwriting that hers was "an account that may set a record for most misinformation per column inch". When challenged, Holiday—whose autobiography had been ghostwritten by William Dufty —claimed, "I ain't never read that book. Billie Holiday was so well known for her rendition of "Strange Fruit" that "she crafted a relationship to the song that would make them inseparable". Hardy [27]. Nina Simone recorded the song in[28] a recording Strange Fruit 1st edition by journalist David Margolick in as featuring a "plain and unsentimental voice". From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For other uses, see Strange Fruit disambiguation. Archived from the original on May 28, Retrieved April 20, Retrieved June 16, : Running Press. The Guardian. Retrieved September 23, Morning Edition. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. International Journal of Epidemiology. Retrieved January 6, August 6, Retrieved August 15, April 17, Rhetoric Society Quarterly. Retrieved Strange Fruit 1st edition 23, Retrieved May 13, Archived from the original on July 11, Retrieved June 15, June Retrieved September 10, Walt Street Journal. Retrieved May 20, Ottawa Citizen. Retrieved January 29, New Statesman. Retrieved March 25, December 12, Deep South Magazine. Billie Holiday. Discography Awards and nominations. Book Category. Lynching in the United States. List of lynching victims in the United States. Theodore G. Vardaman Thomas E. Shipp Vendetta film Wilmington insurrection of Hidden categories: CS1 errors: empty unknown parameters Use mdy dates from June Articles with short description Short description matches Wikidata Articles with hAudio microformats Pages using infobox song with unknown parameters MusicBrainz work same as Wikidata Articles with MusicBrainz work links. Namespaces Strange Fruit 1st edition Talk. Views Read Edit View history. Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file. Download as PDF Printable version. April 20, [1]. Strange Fruit - Wikipedia

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