Strange Fruit – Billie Holiday
The song “Strange Fruit” by Billie Holiday was a very powerful and emotional song. It showed her profound horror over a lynching and was banned from U.S. radio for its heavy, morbid content upon its release in 1939.
Many people believed that it was a song that people needed to hear at the time. Holiday would see another song, “Love For Sale,” get banned as well in 1965 as it was about prostitution.