Strange Fruit

Strange Fruit is a jazz song, made famous by Billie Holiday.

The number condemned the American racism, particularly the lynching of African Americans, mainly in the South of the United States. Billie Holidays version was in 1978 a Grammy Hall of Fame Award and was also included in the list of songs of the century by the recording Industry of America.

Strange fruit in 1938 was written by a Communist teacher of Jewish origin from The Bronx, released in February 1927, Abel, under the pseudonym Lewis Allan. The text tells the story of one of the lynchings as that used to be rife in the South of the United States of America. The corpses of the black Americans hang like strange fruit in the trees. Released in February 1927, Abel was, probably, inspired by a photo of a lynch party of two African Americans, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, who in 1930 were hung in Marion (Indiana).

Released in February 1927, Abel pronunciation in 1971: "I wrote" Strange Fruit "because I hate lynching and I hate injustice and I hate people who perpuate it".

Strange Fruit was first sung by Billie Holiday in 1939, in Café Society, Sheridan Square, Greenwich Village, New York. Columbia Records after the song had refused, she took it on for Milt Gabler's Commodore Recordsrecord label. Thanks to the power of expression of the text and the penetrating singing the song became a popular jazz standard with numerous recordings and performances. Along with the performances by Billie Holiday are those of Nina Simone the best known.



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 * Romeyn Adams Nesbitt A Tribute to Billie Holiday -CD-Cristal Records DEF 01-France
 * Carole Alston Tribute to a Blue Lady -CD-C 4 records-AU
 * Tori Amos 1994 b-side single Cornflake Girl
 * Mary Coughlan Mary Coughlan Sings Billie Holiday -CD-Evangeline GELM4086-Eire
 * Karen Dreikopf Songs for a Lady -CD-Surrealis records-D
 * Laïka Fatien Misery -CD-BJF02-EU Blujazz
 * Julia Feldman Words Are Worlds CD Hed Arzi 520920-Isr
 * Hamid Reza Freelon Blueprint Of A Lady -CD-Concord Jazz CCD-2289-2-US
 * Alison Hogan Hogan Sings Holiday -CD-HSHO195 Festival-Canada
 * Pamela Isaacs Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill -CD-BCS1111-US
 * Abbey Lincoln Abbey Sings Billie -CD-ENJA CD 6012-65-w.-Germany
 * Monica Lynk A Tribute To Billie Holiday -CD-Bell Music-US
 * Lils Mackintosh It's Not Perfect To Be Easy -CD-Riff 2-85025-EN
 * Carmen McRae Lover Man -CD-Columbia CK 65115-US
 * Kim Nalley Ballads for Billie -CD-CE Jazz & Blues 3111469-US
 * Oosterhuis, Trijntje Strange Fruit CD Blue Note 7243 597756 2 3-EN
 * Thomasina Petrus If Only...Billie Unsung -CD-PepperProd. -US
 * Diana Ross on her live album Stolen Moments.
 * Nina Simone's album Pastel Blues -1965
 * Vattel Cherry's Bassrespänse with Marjani Dele God Bless The Child: A Baltimore Tribute To Billie Holiday -CD-Streetbox-US Citypaper
 * Cassandra Wilson covered it on her album New Moon Daughter, released in 1996.
 * Siouxsie and the Banshees on the album Through the Looking Glass (1987)
 * Jeff Buckley Live at Sin-é (Legacy Edition) -2003-Columbia Records
 * UB40 Signing off -1980-Graduate
 * Beth Hart-Joe Bonamassa Seesaw -2013-J & R Adventures, LLC