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Robert Wyatt - Strange Fruit (Abel Meeropol - Billie Holiday Cover)

From '' At Last I Am Free / Strange Fruit '' Label: Rough Trade -- RT 052 Format: Vinyl, 7" Country: UK Released: 1980 Tracklist A At Last I Am Free (Written-By -- Edwards, Rodgers) B Strange Fruit (Written-By -- Lewis Allan) ------------------------ "Strange Fruit" is a song performed most famously by Billie Holiday, who released her first recording of it in 1939, the year she first sang it. Written by the teacher Abel Meeropol as a poem, it condemned American racism, particularly the lynching of African Americans. Such lynchings had occurred chiefly in the South but also in all other regions of the United States. The writer, Abel, set it to music and with his wife and the singer Laura Duncan, performed it as a protest song in New York venues, including Madison Square Garden. The song has been covered by numerous artists, as well as inspiring novels, other poems and other creative works. In 1978 Holiday's version of the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. It was also included in the list of Songs of the Century, by the Recording Industry of America and the National Endowment for the Arts. In popular culture The 1944 novel Strange Fruit by author Lillian Smith, was said to have been inspired by Holiday's version of the song. The short film, Strange Fruit, written and directed by Christopher Browne. The Seattle literary magazine the strange fruit is named after the song. A 2005 episode of the crime drama series Cold Case bears the title "Strange Fruit". The plot concerns the murder of a young african-american man in the 1963 who was very active in the civil rights movement. The opera Strange Fruit was adapted from the novel by Lillian Smith. A commissioned work, it premiered on June 15, 2007 at the Long Leaf Opera Festival in Chapel Hill, North Carolina starring: Charles Stanton, Baritone and Erina Newkirk, Soprano. Chandler Carter was the composer and Joan Ross Sorkin was the librettist. The British playwright Caryl Phillips' named his first play after the song. Strange Fruit the novel, by Avenda Burnell Walsh was inspired by the song. The song, "Strange Fruit", written and performed by Common and John Legend. Produced by Kanye West. The choral song "Ain'tcha Gotta Right to the Tree of Life?", by Paul Caldwell and Sean Ivory, includes the lines, "Once upon a time the trees bore strange fruit / but then a dream of justice came and it took root." The poem "Strange Fruit" by the Irish poet Seamus Heaney. The poem "Strange Fruit" by Joy Harjo. The song "Strange Fruit" produced by Pete Rock performed by Tragedy Khadafi, Cappadonna & Sticky Fingaz The song "Strange Fruit" by Zomby. Related in name only. Covers Nina Simone's album Pastel Blues released in 1965 includes her version of the song. Reggae group UB40 covered the song on their 1980 album Signing Off. In 2007, Mojo magazine selected Siouxsie and the Banshees's version from their Through the Looking Glass album, for a CD called Music Is Love: 15 Tracks That Changed The World Recovered By.... Tori Amos recorded it as a B-side to her 1994 single "Cornflake Girl". Cocteau Twins sang it as a BBC session recording. The Twilight Singers included it in their 2004 cover album She Loves You. Folk Punk ensemble This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb covers the song in their 2008 album Convertible. John Martyn included it on his album The Church with One Bell. Robert Wyatt sings it on his album Nothing Can Stop Us. Jeff Buckley sang a live version on his album Live at Sin-é (Legacy edition) Diana Ross covers this song on both the soundtrack of her 1972 film Lady Sings the Blues and on her live album Stolen Moments (1992). Karate covers this song in their album In the Fishtank 12. Cassandra Wilson covered it on her album New Moon Daughter (1995). Karan Casey covered it on her album The Winds Begin To Sing (2001). The Gun Club on the live bonus edition of their Death Party EP. Lou Rawls on the album Black and Blue and Tobacco Road. Sting and Gil Evans performed the song together and it appears on the live album Last Session (1987). Snowman covered the song for Triple J's Like a Version segment. The song appeared on the fourth Like a Version compilation CD, released in 2008. Mark Lanegan and Greg Dulli covered the song together as The Gutter Twins. Flowers Forever (Derek Pressnall of Tilly & the Wall) covers the song on the band's self-titled debut. Bassist Marcus Miller performed the song live on his album Live & More. Vanessa Petruo, a German jazz singer, covered this song for her 2007/2008 album, which remains unreleased. A karaoke version of "Strange Fruit" appears on Karaoke Union Songs (2007). The vocal version on this album is by Jackie Richardson. Siouxsie and the Banshees performed a cover of Strange Fruit for their album Through the Looking Glass (1987).