The second in a collection of songs called Black Excellence.
"Strange Fruit" is a song performed most famously by Billie Holiday, who first sang and recorded it in 1939. Written by teacher Abel Meeropol as a poem and published in 1937, it protested American racism, particularly the lynching of African Americans. Such lynchings had reached a peak in the South at the turn of the century, but continued there and in other regions of the United States. Meeropol set it to music and, with his wife and the singer Laura Duncan, performed it as a protest song in New York venues in the late 1930s, including Madison Square Garden.
It is probably most famously covered by Nina Simone, sampled in this recording.
credits
from Black Excellence,
track released February 9, 2015
Produced by: Mel Washington
Vocals: Mel Washington
Keys: Jonathan Etienne
Recorded by: Jon Hicks & Mel Washington - Nashville, TN
Mixed and Mastered by: Chris Holford - Murfreesboro, TN
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