[lbo-talk] Sad Songs Say So Much

[ravi]

On 06/24/05 14:10, joanna wrote:
> 
>> Billie also has the actually great very depressing,
>> still-horrifying anti-lynching song she coauthored,
>> Strange Fruit.
>>
> If memory serves, the guy who collaborated on "Strange Fruit" was a commie
> who wound up adopting the Rosenberg children.
> 

yes a dude named abel meeropol. AFAIK he was the sole author.

if you ever get to go to the baltimore art museum, you can see another
rendition of the poem:

http://eebmore.baltiblogs.com/archives/002146.html

	--ravi