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“Strange Fruit” by Billie Holiday

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	song info     “Strange Fruit” by Billie Holiday is an anti-racism jazz ballad.     Rare B&W live footage.     This song was written by Bronx school teacher Abe Meerpool after he saw a 1930 photgraph of two black men lynched in Marion, Indiana.     Song Title: Strange Fruit (live)     Artist: Billie Holiday     Genre: jazz, blues     Composer: Copyright © 1937 Abel Meeropol (a Jewish school teacher)     Lead Vocals: Billie Holiday     Instruments: Frankie Newton’s eight-piece Cafe Society Band (original recording)     Piano: Sonny White (original recording)     Producer: Milt Gabler, because Billie Holday’s regular producer, John Hammond, was afraid of the possible response (original recording)     Recorded: April 20, 1939 (original recording)     Released: 1939 (original recording)     Label: Vocalion Records, Billie Holiday was released from her contract with Columbia Records for one day because Columbia was afraid of the possible response     Number of listens: 38471     Current rank: 12 (updated weekly)     Highest rank: 10 (play the video all the way through to register a vote for this song) link to the static song information page for this song: http://www.thissideofsanity.com/music/songs/st/strangefruitbillielive.php

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