Tags changed from "strange,fruit,billie,holiday" to "strange, fruit,civil rights, racism, 0's" by gold star member swampgirl.

As you may know Ive created a playlist of many of the dead videos on the sift. As its been there for awhile, and there have been quite a few views of it, very few vids have been fixed or discarded. I thought a list just of yours might be of some help. The list below are all your videos on my playlist. There may be a few errors, but I gave it my best shot.


http://www.videosift.com/video/One-Night-in-Bangkok--Murray-Head
http://www.videosift.com/video/Mississippi-John-Hurt-Spike-Driver-Blues
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Bionic-Woman-70s-TV-Intro
http://www.videosift.com/video/Merle-Travis-Cannonball-Rag-50s--2
http://www.videosift.com/video/Flatt-Scruggs-1965-Foggy-Mountain-Breakdown
http://www.videosift.com/video/Merry-Christmas-Everybody-Slade-1973
http://www.videosift.com/video/Triumph-The-Insult-Comic-Dog-8-Mile-Parody
http://www.videosift.com/video/Donald-Duck-Trick-or-Treat
http://www.videosift.com/video/Alien-hiding-behind-post-grabs-boy
http://www.videosift.com/video/bonnie-tyler-total-eclipse-of-the-heart
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Marx-Brothers-A-Night-at-the-Opera-Cabin-Scene
http://www.videosift.com/video/David-Bowie-Space-Oddity-1969-version
http://www.videosift.com/video/Its-Time-to-Change--The-Brady-Bunch
http://www.videosift.com/video/Billie-Holiday-Count-Basie-Now-Baby-or-Never
http://www.videosift.com/video/Shrek-Karaoke-Dance-Party-Music-Video
http://www.videosift.com/video/Hans-Richter-1929-Alles-Dreht-Sich-Alles-Bewegt-Sich
http://www.videosift.com/video/Halloween-Cats
http://www.videosift.com/video/Footloose-Kenny-Loggins-Kevin-Bacon-dancing-in-the-80s
http://www.videosift.com/video/Wonder-Woman-Disco

It's cool. I've noticed that certain things don't do well. I'm still adjusting. I still like to test the waters though.

In reply to your comment:
“Sorry I didn't see this one before you discarded. The song is great...I think slideshows have a hard time here. Great song, I'm a big Billie Holiday fan

In reply to your comment:
“*discard, doing very poorly, want to post something else””

Sorry I didn't see this one before you discarded. The song is great...I think slideshows have a hard time here. Great song, I'm a big Billie Holiday fan

In reply to your comment:
“*discard, doing very poorly, want to post something else”

http://www.videosift.com/video/Billie-Holiday-Strange-Fruit

"Billie Holiday, also known as "Lady Day" is probably one of the best known female jazz vocalists. She reigned during the 1940's performing with such greats as Louis Armstrong. Holiday is best known for her love songs which she innovated into the jazz world.

What a lot of people do not know about Billie Holiday, was that she used her music to speak out against social injustice and raise consciousness. Holiday was openly communist and when she was only twenty four years old, poet Lewis Allen reluctantly offered his song "Strange Fruit" for Holiday to record. The song provided vivid imagery about the horrors of the lynching of Southern Blacks at a time when racism was very prevalent.

When Holiday first sang the song "she could not comprehend the metamorphic presentations of anything other than women in love or spurned by lovers", (Davis. p185). This quote may make Holiday sound ignorant, but at the time the idea of a woman, especially a Black woman, making an anti racist statement was almost unheard of. Holiday soon embraced the song.

Lady Day had said that the lyrics reminded her of her own father's death (Clarence Holiday had inhaled poisonous gases after serving his country in World War I and was left to die in a hospital after being neglected by racist doctors). "Strange Fruit" ignited a spark that made Holiday want to speak out against the racism that killed her father (Davis, 1998).

Because feminism incorporates the fight against racism, I believe that Billie Holiday was a feminist before her time. "Strange Fruit" was sung by Holiday at the height of the Harlem Renaissance and not long after women had received the right to vote. The rights of African Americans and an awareness of their culture was just beginning to take shape. Women's rights were also still in the making. Holiday, who was mainly known for her love songs, boldly stepped out of a stereotyped mold and sang a song that stood defined the injustices performed against her people.

She took a poem and transformed it into a protest song, which she never sang the same twice. Compared to Black female vocalists of today, like Erykah Badu and Tracy Chapman who have mostly social and political songs, one protest song may not seem like much, but "Strange Fruit" became Billie Holiday's signature song. She took the song and personally made it her own."

- http://www.newpaltz.edu/wmnstudies/3women/billie.html

Billie Holiday helped sell my house.

I made a 5 hour play list repeating all of her best songs. I played it while my house was being shown. The kids left out cookies. I'm convinced her music sold my house. The woman raved about the cookies and music more than the house!


Her and Nat King Cole are the absolute best!

"Billie Holiday recorded "Fine and Mellow" during a TV session in New York on December 8, 1957, about a year and a half before she died at the age of 44. To me this is probably the most emotional and gripping recording ever made in jazz.
Billie sings Sweet and Mellow, which is just a 12 bar blues. There is some wonderful solo work by Ben Webster, Lester Young, Vic Dickenson, Gerry Mulligan, Coleman Hawkins and Roy Eldridge. This is music made for heaven!"

youtube-
"Description: Reunited after many years with tenor saxophonist Lester Young, Billie's visual reaction to his moving solo remains as eloquent as anything she ever sang; a touching finale to their historic musical partnership. Introduced by Robert Herridge"

It takes a few min. to get to Billie..but it's always worth it. :-)

poster at Google video said:

"This short is 9:30 minutes in length and was made in 1935 by the great Adolph Zuckor. It is also the first film appearance of a young Billie Holiday."