21Year Old FIRST TIME HEARING Billie Holiday Strange Fruit" REACTION!!!
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She was extremely brave to record this at the time she did. It should be heard by everyone.
Columbia records refused to record Strange Fruit. John Hammond also refused to record it. It was Milt Gabler, of Commodore Records, a friend and admirer of Billie's, who finally recorded Strange Fruit for her.
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.
Twon, the government came after many entertainers who stood up including the phenomenal Paul Robeson and the gorgeous Eartha Kitt. Two people to check during BHM.
Killed her too. They were afraid of her
@@neriumprotostar They didn't kill her, they came after her for her drug abuse to stop her from singing "Strange Fruit", rather than assist her in getting the help she needed. She sang the song to bring awareness to the lynchings in the south. Her death was due to cirrhosis of the liver from heroin and alcohol abuse. The government was evil enough to arrest her on her death bed, and she died with cuffs around her ankle.
@@guacamole2993 well, yes. But they denied her treatment which indirectly killed her.
@@neriumprotostar yes, that is correct. I’m not defending the government in this scenario btw, they were terrible. I was just saying that they did not kill her.
One of the most important songs of the 20th century.
And for the rest of eternity
The metaphor of dangling, Black bodies as "Strange Fruit" might be one of the most powerful ever.
It's a musical testament to over 4,700 recorded lynchings between 1882 and 1968.
They weren't all just hung to death. They were often burned, beaten, shot, dragged, mutilated, raped, or castrated..and sometimes in a public display.
you mean most times on public display...and you forgot to include being put on a spit...and it happened to men, women, children and the elderly
And today the police does d lynchings on d street and the USA "justice" system put them in prison ( to make them work for free )!!!
Song written by a Jewish man named Abel Meeropol who quit the Communist party. It was based on the image taken by Lawrence Beitler who took a photo of a mob who lynched J. Thomas Shipp and Abraham Smith for the robbing and murdering of a white factory worker, Claude Deeter, and raping his girlfriend, Mary Ball. The 16 year old James Cameron was saved by 2 people a women and a sports hero. James Cameron later confessed that J. Thomas Smith and Abraham Smith committed the crimes robbery and murder. Mary Ball's testimony dropped the charges of rape against James Cameron and confirmed the 2 who murdered Claude Deeter and raped her.
and they would make postal card with strange fruit, to send to their families.
This recording dates to 1959...but the song dates to before World War II. Billie's record label wouldn'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...)
One of the most powerful songs of the last 100 years
10000% agree.
I just want to let you know that your reaction to this song actually brought this 62 year old white man to tears. In a good way, but I was so moved to see a young Black man introduced to this legendary singer and this incredible song.
Lady Day got some backlash for even recording this song. As you said, at that time lynching was an "uncomfortable" subject. "Jim Crow" was alive and well in the American south. Some say he still is. Berry Gordy didn't really want Marvin Gaye to record "What's Goin' On" for much the same reasons and is reputed to have resented Marvin for backing him into a corner to get his way.
Twon, we can only measure progress if we admit the past. For you this was many years before your birth. For me it was within my lifetime. So many say they do not think history should be changed. I agree. I ask only that full history be exposed. Do not let this past embitter you, but also know it as fact. Appreciate all of those who came before you who made your experiences of today possible. Thanks for bringing others to this song for what might be their first time.
"Those who do not learn from history are destined to repeat it". We need to acknowledge the bad that has been done in order to get past it and on to a brighter future.
Truth and Reconciliation are a must if we are to heal.
Lynching still happens to this day.... sadly. Recently I was in Tennessee at a cabin and was chased out by kkk... they were boosting about how lynching was a good time and I ran for my dear life, I knew I was next. The was the scariest moment in my life and I've been through it all.
Written by Abel Meeropol (a white Jewish man) & 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
Sad days!😢
Hanging is too mild of a term. These were lynchings. Most of the time they were preceeded by beatings, castrations, any and every possible means of invoking pain and terror in order to make it as terrible for the victims as could be. This nation is founded in blood and is far from a proud heritage
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, "Strange Fruit," made her a target of the FBI.
SADLY!!!
It’s a terrific movie that should be shown in ALL schools.
Probably because the lyrics were written by a communist.
@@johnelrick8945 Nah, it's because it was holding a mirror up to the grotesque faces of racists, and they didn't like what they saw, so they went after Billie targeting her as "the problem". (Because in their mind, the racists themselves weren't the *actual* problem, it was those that went against, fought back, spoke out against them that were "the problem". Like so many abusers/bullies, they never want to take accountability.)
@@jazzman1626 except the Sex scene🤪
Thank you Twon for exposing your audience young and old to this song! It is VERY IMPORTANT!
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, "Good Morning Heartache" would be a good choice.
I thought you were going to say “What a Little Moonlight Can Do.” Lol
“Good Morning Heartache” isn’t exactly light and cheerful.
@@frankiebowie6174 True, though anything is cheerful after "Strange Fruit"!
Lol i knew about her before this song and idk how to feel
Just because she was black and a singer doesn't mean she was a Blues singer. Billie Holiday was a Jazz singer who sang Pop standards with the backing of Jazz combos and Big Bands and orchestras. Lucinda Williams and Bonnie Raitt have recorded more Blues than Billie Holiday did.
Billie Holiday's biggest influence was Louis Armstrong.
Listening to that song brought tears to my eyes . I felt it so deep inside .
I've heard it dozens of times, and it still brings tears to my eyes.
Twon, I highly recommend the movie “Lady Sings the Blues” starring Diana Ross. Its the life of Billie Holliday.
One of my favorite movies! The music is awesome, and Diana Ross does it justice!
Yes, that film is amazing!
Definitely gonna watch that one first before the newly released one
Wow, in at the deep end. Good on you Twon for listening to this one, which is unarguably one of the most important songs of the past century...and one of the darkest lyrics ever written.
I'M SO PROUD THAT MORE BLACK YOUTH ARE TRYING TO BE MORE KNOWLEDGEABLE ABOUT OUR ANCESTORS AND WHAT THEY FOUGHT FOR. LIKE THE LATE JOHN LEWIS SAID "GOOD TROUBLE" GOD KNOWS A CHANGE IS GOING TO COME. 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. 🙂💖
Yup I’m 14 and i once i found out the ICE CREAM SONG was racist i got deeper into it then i started watching menstruales then music including this n its sad but its good to know where u came from😢❤️
I’m so glad someone of your generation just experienced and appreciated the depth of this song. Such a beautiful voice singing a song of truth.
Don't ever forget those who have gone before you, son😔❤️
Not a long song. It says so much. The first time I heard it I cried. Then my daddy told me about our family friend's uncle being lynched in Mississippi. He committed no crime. Actually no crime was committed. He spoke to a "white" woman who spoke to him first. She came from an "important" family.
A heart wrenching classic. Painful. She was an original who’s been widely imitated.
One of the most important song ever written and what an amazing voice always moves me.
Billie had the most magnificently flawed voice there ever was. It conveyed such utter honesty and sincerity, and never more so than on "Strange Fruit"...
She fought so hard to record this song, she was so damn brave. I have nothing but respect for this woman. I admire her courage. As painfully as this song is to hear it should always be sung.
I adore listening to Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald they have heavenly voices and will never again have this type of golden jazz again.
I cried so hard listening to this song. You can hear and just feel the pain in her voice. Please do more of her songs. What a strong courageous woman she was. I hope to meet her one day in Heaven.
Twon thank you for this very thoughtful and respectful reaction. It hurts to listen to, and it’s undeniable truth guts us but we need to hear it.
It always amazes me that she sang this when it was truly dangerous for her to do so. However, she didn’t let anyone or anything to keep her from performing it. A brave and beautiful woman. RIP Lady Day 🙏
Billie Holiday had quite the life. The Hollywood version of her life is 'Lady Sings the Blues'. BTW, there are many pictures of black men hanging from trees. There was a great PBS documentary about the Civil Rights Movement called 'Eye on the Prize' . I don't know if it's online. If it is it's required viewing.
I've never hear this one before. Haunting and powerful.
I think it's good that you react to the "old black goddesses". I like to hear Nina, Edda, Simone, Billie ... so much.
Strange fruit started life as a poem I love the way she spits some of lyrics with contempt
Gives me chills every time I hear it.
I can't hear this song without crying.
Tragedy! Heart breaking
I was thinking about that...the notion that this is a sad song. It really isn't. It's subject isn't tragic but heinous, evil. This is not a sad song. It is an *angry* song. As it should be.
This song sends chills up the spine of all good people of all colors, but it means nothing to the wicked of any color. The good people must embrace each other, regardless of color, and must never let go of each other. There are those attempting to divide us and disable us now. We must not let them.
Even after years of abusing her body, she clips the phrasing and holds her tone and her notes throughout this magnificent performance.
I love it that people are rediscovering Billie.
Billie having a conversation with today and tomorrow generations!!!!....a sad and shameful period in american history!!....R.I.P billie!!
Billie Holiday first recorded this song in 1939, but this particular performance was filmed in 1959 (she actually passed away in July 1959). She recorded it twice: in '39, and in '44. She first performed it in 1939 at a nightclub, prior to recording it. Because of the power of the song, the club's owner drew up some rules: Holiday would close with it; the waiters would stop all service in advance; the room would be in darkness except for a spotlight on Holiday's face; and there would be no encore. During the musical introduction to the song, Holiday stood with her eyes closed, as if she were evoking a prayer.
The 1939 recording eventually sold a million copies, in time becoming Holiday's biggest-selling recording. Billie Holiday was so well known for her rendition of "Strange Fruit" that "she crafted a relationship to the song that would make them inseparable." Holiday's 1939 version of the song was included in the National Recording Registry on January 27, 2003.
Good reaction. A song every American should hear. Billie insisted on ending every performance with this song, in a darkened room with only a spotlight on her. She paid a high price for this, hounded by the government, prematurely suffering the loss of her career and finally dying alone. But she and Strange Fruit will NEVER be forgotten.
Meeropol published the poem in a magazine published by the New York City Teachers Union in 1937. Billy was introduced to the song early and first recorded it in 1939. It's still painfully relevant.
Ms Holiday was a brave warrior and spoke her truth.....bless her heart and all those who were victims of hate .
🕊🤍🌺RIPOWER 🌺🤍🕊
Precious Billie Holiday & Nina Simon
Peace & Blessings To All Deceased
Those were such Horrible Times
Thank you for dipping into who wrote it, as well as the importance of her performance and it’s impact upon you.
This always brings tears to my eyes. Brave woman 🙏🥺❤
So glad to see young black man acknowledge their history and educate themselves on it.
The Modern day black community could use more black folks like u
Fantastic, there is a great podcast episode about Billie and in particular this song & how she refused to be intimidated into not performing it. Of course I can’t remember what it was called. Anyway great job. Such a powerful song. Billie was such a gift to the world. Wish the world had been kinder to her.
What's the use of "Black History Month" when they don't tell you about all the great songs and black musicians in American history? It's very disturbing as a white man that I've been listening to great black performers for 60 years and you youngsters have never heard of them. Check out "Ain't Misbehavin" by Fats Waller, live 1943.
Or Fats (or Louis) doing Black and Blue
Y I K E S
Agreed
@@cannibalisticrequiem what's good
wow heard of the song just heard it wow unreal the hurt of it powerful & sad
Hello from Cody Wyoming! Thank you for this reaction...it is very important but so sad
God bless the child is my favorite by her
I heard this years ago. Not the kind of song to listen to over and over, but one that is important to hear.
I very much love that l see all these young black ppl. are not just being exposed to Billie Holiday and this song but are having strong emotional visceral reactions to it, so much so that, often they don't know quite how to compartmentalize their reactions. This is so important right now it gives flesh and blood to the youth about our relationship w/ this country ...............
I’m so glad that you can’t imagine!
She first came out with this song in 1939! The shit did hit the fan, of course. She was threatened by several entities including our government (specifically Herbert Hoover). Nothing stopped her. She sang it until she died in 1959. Again thanks for sharing this 🙏
Please do more Billie Holiday, she is always moving, haunting even at times.
Jump into her mind and imagine seeing what she saw. It would make a week mind go crazy
They would play that song in the juke joints--even though the crowd was lively--when that song came on there was TOTAL SILENCE--HEADS SHAKING FROM SIDE TO SIDE.---PURE SADNESS---I LIVED THOSE MOMENTS
This song is raw and true. Her performance was superb.
Billie Holliday. Soul at its finest. Amazing.
Reading the lyrics is sometimes more powerful. That’s how I can about this song the first time I heard it, I read the lyrics as part of a poem
it is songs like this that show why music (all kinds) is so important as a voice for all of mankind and how it can bring us together during bad times like nothing else
I first heard about this song on an episode of Touched By An Angel called "God Bless The Child" when the angels try to help a young musician and drug addict by telling her the story of Billie Holiday and the meaning of this song.
The chills !!! Same, I remember my first time
This song is brutal - and that's exactly why it's important. This song really was at the forefront of the Civil Rights Movement.
I agree that you don't walk away from this song feeling good - instead you walk away feeling sadness. I think though, I walk away from if feeling empowered - to never contemplate allowing prejudice to win - even when it feels like an uphill battle.
Our people have endured and continue to endure and the struggle continues with young brothers like yourself.
I'm glad you got to hear this, because I think everyone in America needs to hear this song... But it was sort of heartbreaking watching your excitement at the beginning of the video immediately shift when you heard that first line about the bodies.
I have never heard this song , but i have been. Courious , thank you for the education. 😍😍
The song makes me (as a 65 year old whit woman) feel hurt for the past, but hopeful for the future. Humanity. We all are children of God.
I’m 68 Dana. It really shook me. It hurts me deeply. We are all human ! And yes children of God. I feel a change. Hope I’m right. I had never heard this song before.
She first sang and recorded this in 1937. It was brave thing to do at the time because Jim Crow as still very much a reality in those times. Billie sang this sing throughout her career. She was way ahead of her time in standing up for civiil rights and speaking out about the atrocities against black people that were all too common at that time. Apart from her association with this song, Billie is a hugely important figure in the history of popular music. She was a pioneer in so many ways and many famous singers that followed have acknowledged the debt they owe to her. Her influence can still be heard today, but you have to know what came before her to fully understand the impact she had and the she revolutionised pop and jazz singing.
And when she sang the song at the club they turned out the lights they just showed her face and they couldn't serve anyone while the song was on and they couldn't clap.
Salute for reacting to Black classics for Black history month!
You are a black american and you have never heard of Billie Holliday, good for you to discover it now. I heard this song in the early sixties when I was a white teenager in my native Denmark.
Tears your heart out. 💔
My father was born this year, only 4 years after Jim Crow was denounced not abolished & they still segregated water fountains & stores. My Dad. Born traveling through the confederate south with my Grandparents & my Aunt. I'm in my early 30's. This was not that long ago. I break down in tears thinking about this time for my Grandparents.
I was born in 1959 and hope my generation has in some way changed. My Grandparent's raised me without a bigoted bone in me. Thank you for that painful reaction and the respect you gave Miss Holiday.
Heartbreaking and brilliant. Great analysis, Twon.
Hauntingly beautiful voice she had. And I won´t get tired to recommend some of the old blues guys. Mississippi Fred McDowell "You got to move".
I can't believe you're listening to this song. I used to sing this, I love her so much. And this song is just so moving, sad in it's raw truthfulness, the heart cries. I guess that's why I sang it, studied every emotion in her voice, in the lyrics to convey the depth of the emotion. :-( Twon, so many people don't know this, but Italian Americans in The South were hung right along side African Americans and Native Americans. Only because we had The MAFIA they ignored our skin that was a tad too tan and stopped bothering us. Except "we" are all born with MAFIA stamped on our forehead at birth and R.I.C.O. Act stamped on our foot. LOL ~ So, all Sicilian babies head butted the doctors and kicked the nurses ~ HaHaaaa ~ Difficult lyrics to listen to I know, but you stood beyond your 21 years. Much Love and Always the Best to you in Life ~!
The most gut wrenching song I’ve ever heard ,watching you listen to this broke me . People need to know the past so the future can be better but racism is a sickening virus still spreading in some people . I really enjoy your reactions and watching you discovering new “ old “ music is joyful !
I love Crazy He Calls Me by her. Amazing voice.
I was 39 years old before I ever heard of this song and I was introduced to it on my first visit to New Orleans. The lyrics are absolutely heartbreaking and brings tears to my eyes. Thank you for sharing it with everyone. 💜
Lady Day is amazing! IMO you need to listen to her in her prime back in the 1930s. This was many years later after a lot of addiction problems and near the end of her career. Nothing like her voice ...it just transports you to another era of time!
The lyrics are amazing and Billie’s voice gives it even more weight. 🙏🏻
You must you MUST react to Roberta Flack...First time ever I saw your face. LIVE Version. You get the full emotion. The most beautiful song ever
Very glad you are finding Lady Day. The past 4 years have made her and so many other black artists even more relevant. This song is chilling on all fronts. I was a child when this was done but heard it first when about your age. I'm neither black nor American so can only appreciate it so far. Please continue your journey, these need to be remembered.
Just found this song at almost 30. I felt the chills and I actually cried because her voice and the lyrics hut you right in the empathy feels.
I've been an avid Billie Holiday fan for almost 50 years. Thanks for doing this. The song was written and first recorded in the late 1930s. There is so much great Billie Holiday to hear. Her early Columbia recordings often featured Lester Young, who first called her Lady Day. Her later Verve recordings often featured Ben Webster. Two of the greatest tenor sax players ever. Many other great musicians recorded with Billie. She is indeed a national treasure.
Lady Day recorded Strange Fruit in 1939. Read her new biography Billie Holiday: Jazz Singer. Billie Holiday was an important historical icon.
Can you imagine how much courage it took for this woman to sing this song in the 50's? She went to jail for it!!!!
And died for it.
when you think that she first recorded the song in 1939 even more amazing
Born in 1998 and heard this song for the very first time today and was scared as shit when I listened...like how hard must it have been to sing this especially back then? I found myself wanting to not cry but vomit instead.
Just saw your Nina Sumone video and suggested this! Then I saw this reaction. 🙂🙂
Damn, that's powerful!
This song leaves you speechless and heartbroken at the same time. You felt a certain way hearing this for the first time just imagine having to live it. 🙏🏽🙏🏽 R.I.H Billie Holiday
Yes when reactors keep stopping they missed out what they're singing and the music direction. But im glad you pay attention to the lyrics and the haunting the way billie sung it. She experienced herself racism was out in the open. Like people commented diana ross played billie holiday in "Lady sings the blues" her trouble life. Then singer andrea day will portray billie holiday united states v billie holiday the movie is based on
Billie Holiday was great. Check out "Stars Fell on Alabama" for something from her with a lighter theme. But if you're looking for songs with themes related to "Strange Fruit", check out the pushback against Jim Crow on "Fables of Faubus" by Charles Mingus, also from 1959.
It's not a song you want to listen to twice. That's a compliment. The message is delivered and received. Once is enough to understand. The hurt makes you not want to listen again. Powerful. Very Powerful.
She sang this song for the first time in 1939 in a club in New York, twenty years before this interpretation.
Wow. Never heard it before. Really broke my heart. I could picture it. Good one to react to. Good for you. Shook 😞
Diana Ross made a movie called LADY SINGS THE BLUES based on the life of Billie Holiday. CATCH IT😃😎
Lord this movie soooooo powerful 😭😭😭All I did was laugh and cry
I just watched her documentary I had to see people's reaction.
Abel Meeropole's union bulletin poem was made legend when Ms. Holiday set it to music. not in the 50s but in the 30s. Her vocals were so powerful she was constantly at risk of losing her caberet license by disgruntled club owners who wanted dancing and drinking tunes - not a civil rights dirge. This '59 video, from a TV special may be the only one in existence. By this time she was deep within the clutches of drug addiction. Still... twenty years after recording it... she was unable to it on US airwaves. The pain that came with each performance never left her. BTW... Meerepoole aka Lewis Allan, later adopted the two Rosenberg boys.