78 RPM RECORD BILLIE HOLIDAY 1939 STRANGE FRUIT ORIG. VERSION ANTI-LYNCHING E-

$

77

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78 RPM RECORD  BILLIE HOLIDAY AND HER ORCHESTRA.  STRANGE FRUIT & FINE AND MELLOW.  COMMODORE 526.  RECORDED IN 1939.  THIS FAMOUS RECORD IS BILLIE'S PROTEST SONG BASED ON A POEM BY LEWIS ALLAN (A JEWISH WRITER WHO WAS AS ANGRY ABOUT THE MISTREATMENT OF BLACK PEOPLE AS WERE MANY WHO WERE SOCIALLY CONSCIOUS).  BILLIE SINGS ABOUT THE HORROR OF LYNCHING AS ONLY SHE COULD!  PIANO INTERLUDE BY SONNY WHITE.  THE OTHER SIDE IS A GREAT BLUES ARRANGED BY SAXOPHONIST TAB SMITH (WHO PLAYED ALTO SAX ON THE RECORD DATE) AND ACCOMPANIED BY FRANKIE NEWTON AND HIS CAFE SOCIETY ORCHESTRA.  HOLIDAY WAS SINGING AT THE CAFE SOCIETY NIGHT CLUB WITH THE NEWTON BAND AT THAT TIME.  FRANKIE PLAYS THE TRUMPET SOLO.  THE RECORD WAS PRODUCED BY MILT GABLER AND WAS WRITTEN BY GABLER AND BILLIE (LARGLY BASED ON CLASSIC OLD BLUES LYRICS OF MANY YEARS BEFORE).  RECORD IS IN "E-" CONDITION AND THE STARTING BID IS $49.99.  PLEASE SEE MY OTHER ITEMS FOR MORE BY BILLIE HOLIDAY.

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