21Year Old FIRST TIME HEARING Billie Holiday Strange Fruit" REACTION!!!

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• PA

  @pastorofmuppets13 · 5 years ago

  She was extremely brave to record this at the time she did.  It should be heard by everyone.

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• XK

  @xKagryx · 5 years ago

  One of the most important songs of the 20th century.

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• LA

  @LadybugLuv · 5 years ago

  Our government actually came after her for singing this song! They threatened her not to sing it anymore,  but she did anyway! The government came after her.

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• DM

  @dmw1906 · 5 years ago

  The metaphor of dangling, Black bodies as &quot;Strange Fruit&quot; might be one of the most powerful ever.<br>It&apos;s a musical testament to over 4,700 recorded lynchings between 1882 and 1968. <br>They weren&apos;t all just hung to death. They were often burned, beaten, shot, dragged, mutilated, raped, or castrated..and sometimes in a public display.

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• ST

  @StudeSteve62 · 5 years ago (edited)

  This recording dates to 1959...but the song dates to before World War II. Billie&apos;s record label wouldn&apos;t touch the song, and agreed to release her from her contract temporarily so she could record it for another label. (That, actually, took guts too, since Billie was famous, her voice, as you can hear, was exceedingly distinctive, and thus her label would still be associated with the song by default...)

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• K-

  @k-d65289 · 5 years ago

  One of the most powerful songs of the last 100 years

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• SC

  @scottcamp9266 · 3 years ago

  Don&apos;t ever forget those who have gone before you, son😔❤️

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• JI

  @JimiBurleigh · 5 years ago

  I just want to let you know that your reaction to this song actually brought this 62 year old white man to tears. &nbsp;In a good way, but I was so moved to see a young Black man introduced to this legendary singer and this incredible song. <br><br>Lady Day got some backlash for even recording this song. As you said, at that time lynching was an &quot;uncomfortable&quot; subject. &nbsp;&quot;Jim Crow&quot; was alive and well in the American south. Some say he still is. &nbsp;Berry Gordy didn&apos;t really want Marvin Gaye to record &quot;What&apos;s Goin&apos; On&quot; for much the same reasons and is reputed to have resented Marvin for backing him into a corner to get his way.

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• LO

  @LOAFEMB · 5 years ago (edited)

  Written by Abel Meeropol (a white Jewish man) &amp; originally recorded by Billie Holiday in March of 1939. One of the most important songs of all time. It’s about the hanging of Blacks in the South

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• JA

  @jamesdignanmusic2765 · 5 years ago (edited)

  Everyone should hear this song. Billie Holiday was one of the top blues singers of the 1930s-1950s... and this song, about lynchings in the old south, was extremely controversial when it came out and is very harrowing, but it demands to be heard. If you want to hear Billie in a lighter mood, &quot;Good Morning Heartache&quot; would be a good choice.

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• MA

  @maryjackson2946 · 5 years ago

  I&apos;M SO PROUD THAT MORE BLACK YOUTH ARE TRYING TO &nbsp;BE MORE KNOWLEDGEABLE ABOUT OUR ANCESTORS AND WHAT THEY FOUGHT FOR. LIKE THE LATE JOHN LEWIS SAID &quot;GOOD TROUBLE&quot; &nbsp;GOD KNOWS A CHANGE IS GOING TO COME. &nbsp;GOD BLESS YOU YOUNG BROTHER FOR USING YOUR PLATFORM TO SPREAD THE KNOWLEDGE. 🙏🙏🙏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏MAY GOD BLESSINGS,COURAGE AND STRENGTH CONTINUE TO BE WITH YOU AND YOUR FAMILY ALWAYS. 🙂💖

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• JO

  @JonS0107 · 5 years ago (edited)

  The United States vs Billie Holiday starring Andra Day, is a movie that is to be release later this month. Lee Daniels shines a light on that facet of the jazz singer’s story, in which Holiday’s 1939 song about lynching, &quot;Strange Fruit,&quot; made her a target of the FBI.

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