Saturday 22 January 2011

Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit

8 comments:

  1. What a strange song.... love her haunting voice but very disturbing lyrics.

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  2. This has always been special to me. Especially in the 70's. We should not forget how it was.

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  3. What an icon, what a voice.

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  4. That song has always given me the creeps. Bodies hanging from trees. It's very upsetting.

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  5. oh, wow, very dark - and beautiful - who can out-do her!!! the weird thing is, i've never heard this piece before - but it so reminds me of a piece of my own that i did enroute from the east coast to here some months back - called "we ain't talkin' cotton" - posted october 15, 2010, at
    http://gypsywomanworld.blogspot.com/search?q=cotton

    love love miss holiday!

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  6. This song has always given me goosebumps. Have you read her biography? What a life...

    Pearl

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  7. Like this song, only recently found out what it was about though..creepy!

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  8. Just seeing her singing this song feels very unusual.

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