Archäologie CCXLXIII : Abel Meeropol "Strange Fruit". Geschichte eines Liedes
Ich hatte das Album frühzeitig angekündigt: Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa -Seesaw:
Mein Lieblingslied auf dem Album: "Strange Fruit", - dem ich aber eben erst auf die Spur gekommen bin. Auf der Spurensuche habe ich eine interessante Persönlichkeit kennengelernt:
"Strange Fruit" is a song performed most famously by Billie Holiday, who first sang and recorded it in 1939. Written by the teacher Abel Meeropol as a poem, it exposed American racism, particularly the lynching of African Americans. Such lynchings had occurred chiefly in the South but also in other regions of the United States ...
Abel Meeropol (February 10, 1903 - October 30, 1986) was an American writer, teacher and song-writer, best known under his pseudonym Lewis Allan.
Meeropol wrote the anti-lynching poem "Strange Fruit", which was first published in the Marxist publication The New Masses and was subsequently set to music. The song's best known recordings and performances were by Billie Holiday and Josh White. Billie Holiday claimed in Lady Sings the Blues, that she cowrote the music to the song with Meeropol and Sonny White, but in fact, Meeropol was the sole writer of both the lyrics and melody.
Meeropol was the writer of countless poems and songs, including the Frank Sinatra and Josh White hit "The House I Live In" (*) and the libretto of Robert Kurka's opera "The Good Soldier Schweik". Meeropol chose to write as "Lewis Allan" in memory of the names of his two stillborn children. Later, he and his wife Anne adopted Julius and Ethel Rosenberg's two sons, Michael and Robert, after their parents' executions.
Southern trees bear strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.
Pastoral scene of the gallant south,
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth,
Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh,
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh.
Here is fruit for the crows to pluck,
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck,
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop,
Here is a strange and bitter crop.
Jetzt wo Sie das wissen, sollten Sie sich diese ganz große Interpretation mal anhören!
Beth & Joe - Strange Fruit OFFICIAL Music Video
Beth Hart - Live At Paradiso (2004) (Full Concert)
Joe Bonamassa with Beth Hart - I'll Take Care of You. 2012 Live at the New York Beacon Theatre.
--> Beth Hart & Band - HAMBURG - Fabrik - 01.12.13, 20:00 Uhr
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* "The House I Live In" was a 1945 short film written by Albert Maltz and made by producer Frank Ross and actor Frank Sinatra, words by Lewis Allan (s. o.) to oppose anti-Semitism and prejudice at the end of World War II.
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Mein Lieblingslied auf dem Album: "Strange Fruit", - dem ich aber eben erst auf die Spur gekommen bin. Auf der Spurensuche habe ich eine interessante Persönlichkeit kennengelernt:
"Strange Fruit" is a song performed most famously by Billie Holiday, who first sang and recorded it in 1939. Written by the teacher Abel Meeropol as a poem, it exposed American racism, particularly the lynching of African Americans. Such lynchings had occurred chiefly in the South but also in other regions of the United States ...Abel Meeropol (February 10, 1903 - October 30, 1986) was an American writer, teacher and song-writer, best known under his pseudonym Lewis Allan.
Meeropol wrote the anti-lynching poem "Strange Fruit", which was first published in the Marxist publication The New Masses and was subsequently set to music. The song's best known recordings and performances were by Billie Holiday and Josh White. Billie Holiday claimed in Lady Sings the Blues, that she cowrote the music to the song with Meeropol and Sonny White, but in fact, Meeropol was the sole writer of both the lyrics and melody.
Meeropol was the writer of countless poems and songs, including the Frank Sinatra and Josh White hit "The House I Live In" (*) and the libretto of Robert Kurka's opera "The Good Soldier Schweik". Meeropol chose to write as "Lewis Allan" in memory of the names of his two stillborn children. Later, he and his wife Anne adopted Julius and Ethel Rosenberg's two sons, Michael and Robert, after their parents' executions.
Southern trees bear strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.
Pastoral scene of the gallant south,
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth,
Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh,
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh.
Here is fruit for the crows to pluck,
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck,
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop,
Here is a strange and bitter crop.
Jetzt wo Sie das wissen, sollten Sie sich diese ganz große Interpretation mal anhören!
Beth & Joe - Strange Fruit OFFICIAL Music Video
Beth Hart - Live At Paradiso (2004) (Full Concert)
Joe Bonamassa with Beth Hart - I'll Take Care of You. 2012 Live at the New York Beacon Theatre.
--> Beth Hart & Band - HAMBURG - Fabrik - 01.12.13, 20:00 Uhr
_________________________________
* "The House I Live In" was a 1945 short film written by Albert Maltz and made by producer Frank Ross and actor Frank Sinatra, words by Lewis Allan (s. o.) to oppose anti-Semitism and prejudice at the end of World War II.
Diese Seite des Francis Albert Sinatra kannte ich bisher nicht! Toll: So habe ich ihn noch nie gesehen ...
Oder: Gut gemachte Propaganda: Wie man stilvoll einen Staatssender abschaltet (II): No More Pomp and Circumstance
gebattmer - 2013/08/02 18:12
Aber so oder so sollte man zum Konzert fahren!!
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