What Music Are You Playing Tonight?
Re: What Music Are You Playing Tonight?
Oh boy!
Had a real bad day at the office. Now smoothing it out with
to add:
a con is basically the same
in english it stands for donald and somesuch
in french it just means idiot
Had a real bad day at the office. Now smoothing it out with
to add:
a con is basically the same
in english it stands for donald and somesuch
in french it just means idiot
Re: What Music Are You Playing Tonight?
Later or sooner
they is gonna will be clowns
in charge of everything
they is gonna will be clowns
in charge of everything
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Re: What Music Are You Playing Tonight?
a sad song
some info on the singer & the song:
some info on the singer & the song:
Interesting interview with Abel Meeropol ( the author of the poem from which the song is taken) adopted children, Michael and Robert, whom he adopted after the executive of their biological parents, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.In March 1939, a 23-year-old Billie Holiday walked up to the mic at West 4th's Cafe Society in New York City to sing her final song of the night. Per her request, the waiters stopped serving and the room went completely black, save for a spotlight on her face. And then she sang, softly in her raw and emotional voice: "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..."
When Holiday finished, the spotlight turned off. When the lights came back on, the stage was empty. She was gone. And per her request, there was no encore. This was how Holiday performed "Strange Fruit," which she would determinedly sing for the next 20 years until her untimely death at the age of 44.
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One individual who was determined to silence Holiday was Federal Bureau of Narcotics commissioner Harry Anslinger. A known racist, Anslinger believed that drugs caused Black people to overstep their boundaries in American society and that Black jazz singers — who smoked marijuana — created the devil's music.
When Anslinger forbid Holiday to perform "Strange Fruit," she refused, causing him to devise a plan to destroy her. Knowing that Holiday was a drug user, he had some of his men frame her by selling her heroin. When she was caught using the drug, she was thrown into prison for the next year and a half.
Upon Holiday's release in 1948, federal authorities refused to reissue her cabaret performer’s license. Her nightclub days, which she loved so much, were over.
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Re: What Music Are You Playing Tonight?
A 20 year old classic French-made shout-out to the ladies on the dancefloor, the kind that makes your head & feet move in sync
She's all dressed up... pretty well
Waving your hands so high, she could reach the sky
She is all necked up, like she's got something to sell
But no one cares right now, as she starts to dance
And she starts dancing to the music, slowly by my side
And she starts dancing to the music now, yeah
And she starts dancing to the music, slowly by my side
And she starts dancing to the music now, yeah
She is all fucked up but no one could tell
Living in ages behind to find a brain again
She is all messed up, somewhere up ahead
But no one cares right now, as she starts to dance
And she starts dancing to the music, slowly by my side
And she starts dancing to the music now, yeah
And she starts dancing to the music, slowly by my side
And she starts dancing to the music now, yeah
She's all dressed up... pretty well
Waving your hands so high, she could reach the sky
She is all necked up, like she's got something to sell
But no one cares right now, as she starts to dance
And she starts dancing to the music, slowly by my side
And she starts dancing to the music now, yeah
And she starts dancing to the music, slowly by my side
And she starts dancing to the music now, yeah
She is all fucked up but no one could tell
Living in ages behind to find a brain again
She is all messed up, somewhere up ahead
But no one cares right now, as she starts to dance
And she starts dancing to the music, slowly by my side
And she starts dancing to the music now, yeah
And she starts dancing to the music, slowly by my side
And she starts dancing to the music now, yeah
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