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    "Strange Fruit" is a song written and composed by Abel Meeropol (under his pseudonym Lewis Allan) and recorded by Billie Holiday in 1939. The lyrics were...
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  • performers. Strange Fruit may also refer to: Strange Fruit (film), a 2004 film by Kyle Schickner Strange Fruit, a fictional rock band in Still Crazy Strange Fruit...
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  • Strange Fruit is a 1944 bestselling debut novel by American author Lillian Smith that deals with the then-forbidden and controversial theme of interracial...
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  • Strange Fruit Records was an independent record label in the United Kingdom. The label, established by Clive Selwood and John Peel in 1986, was the primary...
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  • (2005). "Strange Fruit". Vancouver Queer Film + Video Festival. Archived from the original on 2008-01-09. Retrieved 2007-11-15. "Strange Fruit". Northwestern...
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    recorded for Commodore", Holiday said of "Strange Fruit", "became my biggest-selling record". "Strange Fruit" was the equivalent of a top-twenty hit in...
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  • Strange Fruit Project is an underground hip hop group from Waco, Texas, which consists of producer and emcee Symbolyc One (also known as S1, born Larry...
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  • death in 2004). The plot concerns a fictional 1970s rock band named Strange Fruit, who, after being split up for two decades, are persuaded to get back...
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  • his pseudonym Lewis Allan. He wrote the poem and musical setting of "Strange Fruit" (1937), which was recorded by Billie Holiday. Meeropol was born in...
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  • "The Flame Still Burns" - Strange Fruit with Jimmy Nail - (Jones / Frederiksen / Difford) "All over the World" - Strange Fruit - (Jones / Frederiksen /...
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    and her ability to provoke thought and emotion. "Strange Fruit," for instance, consists of 300 fruit skins that were consumed and then stitched back together...
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  • Strange Fruit is a 2004 film written and directed by Kyle Schickner and starring Kent Faulcon as William Boyals and Berlinda Tolbert as Emma Ayers. It...
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  • Bone Dreams Come to the Bower Bog Queen The Grauballe Man Punishment Strange Fruit Kinship Ocean's Love to Ireland Aisling Act of Union The Betrothal of...
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    song "Strange Fruit", written as a poem by Abel Meeropol in 1939 and recorded by Billie Holiday. In part it goes: Southern trees bear a strange fruit, Blood...
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    and author of a number of graphic novels from Fulcrum Publishing: Strange Fruit Vol I : Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History, Bass Reeves: Tales...
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  • and about the trouble she keeps getting into because of her hit song "Strange Fruit". Billie states that the lyrics are about human rights, something the...
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    2017, Strange released his first solo effort, the acoustic folk EP "Magic Boy" under the name Bartees & The Strange Fruit. In March 2020, Strange released...
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    classic Peel Sessions have been released on record, particularly by the Strange Fruit label. In May 2020, an alphabetised catalogue of hundreds of classic...
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  • wrote about their cover of "Strange Fruit": "Only someone as brash as Siouxsie Sioux would re-record Lewis Allan's "Strange Fruit," a song so strongly identified...
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    and swing. It is also remembered for releasing Billie Holiday's hit "Strange Fruit". Commodore Records was founded in the spring of 1938 by Milt Gabler...
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  • The Peel Sessions (Joy Division) (category Strange Fruit Records compilation albums)
    The first EP, The Peel Sessions, was released in 1986 by record label Strange Fruit. It features recordings made for John Peel's show broadcast on 14 February...
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    "The Plug" — — Non-album singles "ZaZa" (featuring Ybgrone) 2021 — — "Strange Fruit" (featuring Ro$ama) — — "Soul Cry" (featuring Ybgrone) — — "Feeling...
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  • City Sirens #8-13, Catwoman #83 November 2010 978-1401229078 Vol. 3: Strange Fruit Gotham City Sirens #14-19 August 2011 978-1401231378 Vol. 4: Division...
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  • Released: November 1986 Label: Strange Fruit Format: LP 96 4 The Peel Sessions Released: September 1987 Label: Strange Fruit Format: LP 98 3 "—" denotes...
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  • producer on "Madam Medusa", "Strange Fruit" and "Reefer Madness" Rafe McKenna – engineer on "Madam Medusa", "Strange Fruit" and "Reefer Madness" Neil Black...
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  • Strange Days is a 1995 American science fiction thriller film directed by Kathryn Bigelow, from a screenplay by James Cameron and Jay Cocks, and based...
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    Retrospective/Untitled (Y Records, May 1980) Double Peel Sessions (Strange Fruit, November 1988) In the Beginning (Jungle, 1997) Live at the Gibus Club...
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  • session, produced by Dale Griffin, was released as a 12" EP in 1987 by Strange Fruit Records. It featured "China Blue" and "This Train" on the A-side and...
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  • Strange Fruit is the second solo album by Trijntje Oosterhuis and was released on 22 March 2004 on Blue Note records. Trijntje's solo debut album was...
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    Costigan-Wagner Bill, which was also defeated in the US Senate. The song "Strange Fruit" was composed by Abel Meeropol in 1937, inspired by the photograph of...
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