Strange Fruit
"Strange Fruit " is a song written by Abel Meeropol and recorded by Billie Holiday in 1939. The song protests the lynching of Black Americans in the South and reached its peak in the early 20th century. The song has been a declaration and the beginning of the civil rights movement. Holiday's version of the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1978. It has been covered by a number of artists over the years including Nina Simone in 1965.
References
Discography
Awards and nominations
Albums
Billie Holiday Sings/Solitude
An Evening with Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday at Jazz at the Philharmonic
Stay with Me
Music for Torching
Velvet Mood
Lady Sings the Blues
Body and Soul
Songs for Distingué Lovers
Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday at Newport
All or Nothing at All
Lady in Satin
Last Recording
The Essential Billie Holiday: Carnegie Hall Concert Recorded Live
Lady in Autumn: The Best of the Verve Years
Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia 1933–1944
Remixed and Reimagined
Songs
"Ain't Nobody's Business"
"As Time Goes By"
"Billie's Blues"
"Blue Moon "
"Body and Soul"
"Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?"
"Don't Explain"
"Easy Living"
"Embraceable You"
"Everything Happens for the Best"
"Everything Happens to Me"
"Fine and Mellow"
"Gloomy Sunday"
"God Bless the Child "
"Good Morning Heartache"
"I Cover the Waterfront"
"I Loves You, Porgy"
"If You Were Mine"
"I Thought About You"
"I'll Be Seeing You"
"I'll Get By"
"I'll Never Be the Same"
"I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm"
"Just One of Those Things"
"Lady Sings the Blues"
"Left Alone"
"Love for Sale"
"Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)"
"Me, Myself, and I"
"Miss Brown to You"
"My Man"
"Moonlight in Vermont"
"Night and Day"
"No More"
"Now or Never"
"Our Love Is Different"
"P.S. I Love You"
"Pennies from Heaven"
"Please Don't Do It Here"
"Preacher Boy"
"Sophisticated Lady"
"Stormy Blues"
"Stormy Weather"
"Strange Fruit "
"Sugar"
"Summertime"
"That Ole Devil Called Love "
"These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You) "
"Too Marvelous for Words"
"Trav'lin' Light"
"What a Little Moonlight Can Do"
"What Is This Thing Called Love?"
"Why Was I Born?"
"Willow Weep for Me"
"You Go to My Head"
"Your Mother's Son-In-Law"
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