Strange Fruit – Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday was such a sad story of success. Ironically, this was the best that she looked during her entire career and she was actually very sick and near death at the time. it’s somewhat evident by her energy.
Strange Fruit is a song about black people being hung and lynched in the south and it was still happening on a regular basis in the 50s. I never though she was the best singer and was a bit miffed by her success but she certainly was different in her delivery of songs sometimes singing off-key and moaning, it may have been her struggle with drugs interfering. At any rate, this song is a classic.
