STRANGE FRUIT Southern Lynching Song JOSH WHITE Negro NY Cafe Society Sometime
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A series of great JAZZ Records from early Ragtime to Beb-Bop on 78 rpm Victrola Records
More great Jazz and Vocal Records in my other listings!
More great Blues & R&B records in my other listings!
White at the Café Society, ca. June 1946
Black Blues Pioneer Joshua White is best known for his Progressive and anti-segregation political songs was a cherished performer at the NY Café Society :
Here in the second 1942 recording of STRANGE FRUIT, after Billy Holidays 1939 searing recording
Josh White – Strange Fruit / Sometime Vocal w Guitar
Decca Records, Inc. – 26354
A Strange Fruit
Screenwriter – Lewis Allan
B Sometime
Musician – Brownie McGhee, Sonny Terry
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Joshua Daniel White (February 11, 1914–-September 5, 1969),[1] best known as Josh White, was a legendary American singer, guitarist, songwriter, actor, and civil rights activist. Today, he is widely remembered for his powerful and highly sensual stage presence, while some still remember that he almost single-handedly introduced Negro folk, blues, and gospel music to a world audience in the 1940s.
Few, however, are aware that White had suffered the most severe oppression growing up in the Jim Crow South, and despite these hardships would become in the 1920s and 1930s the youngest star of the "race records" era, with a prolific output of recordings in genres including Piedmont blues, country blues, gospel, and social protest songs, and billed in concert as "The Sensation of the South." In 1931, White moved to New York and within a decade his fame had spread widely, and his repertoire expanded to include urban blues, jazz, Tin Pan Alley, cabaret, folk songs from around the world, and hard-hitting political protest songs. When acquiring this broader audience he believed it was vitally important to improve his singing diction so that his story songs could be understood by the world masses, a fact that has dismayed some folk and blues purists who felt he should have stayed true to his roots as the rural country blues artist from South Carolina. His presentation and performance also became more polished and crafted for the main stage, and he soon was in demand as an actor on radio, Broadway, and film. However, his pioneering guitar playing never altered or diminished, while some would even argue it broadened with the expansion of his musical repertoire.
White also would become the closest African American friend and confidant to the president of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Ironically, however, White's anti-segregationist and international human rights political stance presented in many of his recordings and in his speeches at rallies resulted in the Right-Wing McCarthyites incorrectly assuming that he must have been a Communist.
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