"Fine and Mellow" . . "Strange Fruit"@en . "\"Strange Fruit\" is a song performed most famously by Billie Holiday, who first sang and recorded it in 1939. Written by teacher Abel Meeropol as a poem and published in 1937, it protested American racism, particularly the lynching of African Americans. Such lynchings had reached a peak in the South at the turn of the century, but continued there and in other regions of the United States."@en . . . . . . . "1939-04-20Z"^^ . .