Gloomy Monday (that's today?)

[Ted Samsel]

David C sez:
> 
> 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?

That's where it came from. And I already knew that, due to my dad's
collection of Billie Holliday 78's.

(not posting to you David..)

Ted Samsel....tejas at infi.net
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