‘ Conversations With Myself’ was Bill’s first solo album for Verve Records after being released from his contract by Riverside Records. billie holiday jazz vocal jazz rezső seress gloomy I cried all of the disappointments of my heart into this song, and it seems that others with feelings like mine have found their own hurt in it.” In 1968, he committed suicide by jumping out the window of his Budapest apartment building and falling to his death. Seress was haunted by the all the death and destruction his music had caused, saying: “ I stand in the midst of this deadly success as an accused man. More deaths followed.Įven the song’s composer could not escape the curse. They released an English translation of the song and it soon caught on. In London, a woman took an overdose of pills while listening to the record over and over. The song’s eerie reputation quickly spread around the world and music publishers from America decided to cash in on its notoriety. In Budapest, a shopkeeper killed himself and left a note containing the lyrics of the song. In Vienna, a teenage girl drowned herself while clutching the sheet music. In New York, a pretty secretary gassed herself, leaving behind her a request that ’ Gloomy Sunday’ be played at her funeral. Beneath her feet, they found a copy of ’ Gloomy Sunday’. In Berlin, a young shopkeeper hung herself. However, this did not stop the rash of suicides. The Hungarian authorities banned the song from being played in public. Several others drowned themselves in a river while clutching the sheet music of ’ Gloomy Sunday’. People began to refer to it as ’ The Suicide Song’ and there were rumors that it was cursed. Two people shot themselves while listening to a band playing the tune. The next day, she killed herself by swallowing poison, leaving behind a note with just two words written on it: ’ Gloomy Sunday’.Īs time went on, ’ Gloomy Sunday’ was connected to a rash of suicides in Hungary. Today’s song, ’ Gloomy Sunday ’, (performed by Billie Holiday) is a song composed by Hungarian pianist and composer Rezső Seress (after his girlfriend left him) and published in 1933, as ’ Vége A Világnak' (’ End Of The World’).ĭelighted that he had finally written a hit, Seress contacted the ex-girlfriend who inspired the song and attempted to get back together with her. Listening to this song could cause serious health problems.
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