17 July 2009

Billie Holiday - "Strange Fruit"

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I doubt you will ever hear a song as powerful as this one. When Ms. Holiday would perform it in clubs (ignore the TV studio audience here), no one would clap -- the audience would sit there in awe. Moved. Thunderstruck.

See what you think.

1 comment:

whiteray said...

Overpowering. Thanks.