Happy Birthday!

Billie Holiday

was born

4/7/1915
(d.7/17/1959)

Benny Goodman dragged the frightened singer to her first studio session.
Between 1933 and 1944, she recorded over 200 "sides" but never received royalties for any of them.

          Southern trees bear a strange fruit,
          Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
          Black body swinging in the Southern breeze,
          Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.
  
                  "Strange Fruit" by Lewis Allan (nee Abel Meerapol)
                  The Lady introduced it in 1939

[thanx Azizi & bill kennedy, see DigTrad]

ALSO:
Ian Robb was born April 7th, 1948 - one of the very best ballad singers out there.

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