sad tunes

[David Casseres]

Ted Samsel sez

>Leave it to the Hungarians, but in the 20's or 30's, there was a popular
>song over there called GLOOMY MONDAY that had them defenestrating they-
>selves, jumpung off bridges, doing the Anna Karenina bit, usw.
>
>(I am not making this up... learned of this when I was a grad stoont in 
>Ethnomusicology in the '70s).

Hungarians?  Over there???  They didn't teach you that "Gloomy Monday" 
was a major hit right here in the USA, by Billie Holliday, and reputedly 
caused a number of suicides?


Cheers,
David