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<blockquote data-quote="Old Man Jingles" data-source="post: 4526670" data-attributes="member: 18222"><p>Nina Simone was more contemporaneous with my youth.</p><p></p><p>"<strong>Strange Fruit</strong>" is a song recorded by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Holiday" target="_blank">Billie Holiday</a> in 1939, written by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel_Meeropol" target="_blank">Abel Meeropol</a> and published in 1937. It protests the<a href="http://l" target="_blank"> lynching of Black Americans, </a>with lyrics that compare the victims to the fruit of trees. Such lynchings had reached a peak in the Southern United States at the turn of the 20th century, and the great majority of victims were black.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Fruit#cite_note-New_York_1944_page_561-2" target="_blank">[2]</a> The song has been called "a declaration of war" and "the beginning of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_rights_movement" target="_blank">civil rights movement</a>".</p><p></p><p>Meeropol set his lyrics to music with his wife and singer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Duncan_(American_Singer)" target="_blank">Laura Duncan</a> and performed it as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protest_song" target="_blank">protest song</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City" target="_blank">New York City</a> venues in the late 1930s, including <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison_Square_Garden" target="_blank">Madison Square Garden</a>. The song has been covered by numerous artists, including <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Simone" target="_blank"><strong>Nina Simone</strong></a><strong>,</strong> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UB40" target="_blank">UB40</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Buckley" target="_blank">Jeff Buckley</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siouxsie_and_the_Banshees" target="_blank">Siouxsie and the Banshees</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Wyatt" target="_blank">Robert Wyatt</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dee_Dee_Bridgewater" target="_blank">Dee Dee Bridgewater</a>, and Holiday's version was inducted into the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Grammy_Hall_of_Fame_Award_recipients_Q-Z" target="_blank">Grammy Hall of Fame</a> in 1978. It was also included in the list of <em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_of_the_Century" target="_blank">Songs of the Century</a></em> by the Recording Industry of America and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Endowment_for_the_Arts" target="_blank">National Endowment for the Arts</a>.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Old Man Jingles, post: 4526670, member: 18222"] Nina Simone was more contemporaneous with my youth. "[B]Strange Fruit[/B]" is a song recorded by [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Holiday']Billie Holiday[/URL] in 1939, written by [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel_Meeropol']Abel Meeropol[/URL] and published in 1937. It protests the[URL='http://l'] lynching of Black Americans, [/URL]with lyrics that compare the victims to the fruit of trees. Such lynchings had reached a peak in the Southern United States at the turn of the 20th century, and the great majority of victims were black.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Fruit#cite_note-New_York_1944_page_561-2'][2][/URL] The song has been called "a declaration of war" and "the beginning of the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_rights_movement']civil rights movement[/URL]". Meeropol set his lyrics to music with his wife and singer [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Duncan_(American_Singer)']Laura Duncan[/URL] and performed it as a [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protest_song']protest song[/URL] in [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City']New York City[/URL] venues in the late 1930s, including [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison_Square_Garden']Madison Square Garden[/URL]. The song has been covered by numerous artists, including [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Simone'][B]Nina Simone[/B][/URL][B],[/B] [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UB40']UB40[/URL], [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Buckley']Jeff Buckley[/URL], [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siouxsie_and_the_Banshees']Siouxsie and the Banshees[/URL], [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Wyatt']Robert Wyatt[/URL], and [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dee_Dee_Bridgewater']Dee Dee Bridgewater[/URL], and Holiday's version was inducted into the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Grammy_Hall_of_Fame_Award_recipients_Q-Z']Grammy Hall of Fame[/URL] in 1978. It was also included in the list of [I][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_of_the_Century']Songs of the Century[/URL][/I] by the Recording Industry of America and the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Endowment_for_the_Arts']National Endowment for the Arts[/URL]. [/QUOTE]
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