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Time Has Come Again.
An honest, musical telling of the African American fight for religious, financial, and racial justice for all.
Billie Holiday b/ William P. Gottlieb
Kristen Warren (Black Box Black Out) sings “Strange Fruit” at The Funky Dog Improv, a small club/theater in downtown Eau Gallie, Florida.
1934 — George Gershwin writes “PORGY AND BESS” an ARIA telling of a crippled street-beggar struggling to survive on Catfish Row, a black tenement in 1920s Charleston, South Carolina. “Porgy and Bess” was based on real-life, Charleston resident, Samuel Smalls. [THE GULLAH]
1939 — “Strange Fruit,” the song known for its horrific description of the Ku Klux Klan’s indiscriminate execution of innocent black men in America’s Deep South, was written by Abel Meeropol, a white, Jewish school teacher who lived in the Bronx, New York.
Billie Holiday wept the first time she sang “Strange Fruit“ at Café Society, New York City’s (Greenwich Village) first integrated nightclub, as she did every time after. She explained how moved she was by Meeropol’s words, that she described as … “Haunting, and spelling out all that had killed Pop,” referring to her father Clarence, a Jazz guitarist, who was 34 years old, on tour in Dallas, Texas when he fell ill, and was refused treatment at a local hospital.
“God Bless The Child”
1939 — Billie Holiday
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BB KING @ THE COTTON CLUB
Chitlin’ Circuit
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CROSS THAT RIVER (THE STORY OF BLUE)
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Billie Holiday b/ William P. Gottlieb
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