The Strange Fruit session for Commodore stands as one of those genuinely historic moments in recorded music. A huge part of Billie Holiday's legend is bound up in the courage it took to record this song, knowing it could very well bring her career to an end.
Three more songs from that same session are included here: Yesterdays, Fine And Mellow and I Gotta Right To Sing the Blues. Because of contractual issues, the remaining Commodore sides were not recorded until five years later, in 1944.
