Sentence examples for holiday strange from inspiring English sources

She sang two songs associated with Billie Holiday, "Strange Fruit" and "Don't Explain," as well as "Nature Boy" and her own "Moon Don't Come Up Tonight".

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 -Billie Holiday, Strange Fruit (1939).

The original said Kanye West sampled Billie Holiday's Strange Fruit on Blood On The Leaves.

The one I was really surprised by was the live version of Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit".

Holiday recorded "Strange Fruit" four times after the 1939 Commodore session, the last in a televised London concert in February 1959.

Several years ago I gave a talk, or attempted to, at Fisk University on a book I'd written about the Billie Holiday song "Strange Fruit".

Inspired by the languor of Robert Wyatt's interpretation of Billie Holiday's Strange Fruit, Langer wrote a similarly disconsolate melody, but floundered when it came to the lyrics.

Long before the horrifying images of Martin lying prone and lifeless in the grass ever made their way to Gawker, he'd already begun inspiring references to the line about "blood on the leaves" from Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit".