Tori Amos - Strange Fruit (Billie Holiday)
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Uploaded by sickofwaitingtables on Dec 30, 2010
B-side from the "Cornflake Girl" UK single.
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Billie Holiday did not write "Strange Fruit". It was written by a Dewitt Clinton high school teacher in NY. I believe his pen name was Lewis Allen. He was not black.
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This song was written for his wife, Laura Duncan, an African American vocalist. This song has been covered by many musicians over the years. Some sing it as a song and it sounds too flowery. It should be handled with reverence...as a musical prayer. Singing each "swinging Black body" into peaceful eternal rest.
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Art.
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@lindamoggioable Abel Meeropol was Lewis Allan's real name. Abel was not black but he was Jewish, and he was a teacher, he wrote the poem (then turned it into a song) after seeing a picture of a lynching of two black men.
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amazing as always....thanks for posting this incredible song ...i agree tori makes this her own!
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Incredible.
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<3
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Girl is beauty,
song is great,
video bad !
SafkaDK 4 months ago
@SafkaDK What? Did you expect a slideshow of flowers or something?
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