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happy birthday!!!

happy birthday 2010!

wonder if she meant it. she does it so well!

FWIW - i am enjoying lester's posts. i particularly enjoyed the "strange Fruit" post! i would like to know more about Laura Duncan and her husband! from wikipedia: Abel Meeropol From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search "Lewis Allan" redirects here. For other persons of the same name, see Lewis Allen. Abel Meeropol Born February 10, 1903(1903-02-10) Died October 30, 1986 (aged 83) Known for Strange Fruit The House I Live In Relatives Robert Meeropol, adopted son Abel Meeropol (February 10, 1903 - October 30, 1986) was an American writer and inadvertent song-writer, best known under his pseudonym Lewis Allan and as the adoptive father of the young sons of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. [edit] Biography Meeropol wrote the anti-lynching poem, "Strange Fruit", which he subsequently set to music. The song's best known recordings and performances were by Billie Holiday and Josh White.[1] Billie Holiday (or rather her ghostwriter) claimed, in Lady Sings the Blues, that she cowrote the music to the song with Meeropol and Sonny White, but in fact, Meeropol was the sole writer of both lyrics and melody to this haunting plea for civil rights.[2] Meeropol was the writer of countless poems and songs, including the Frank Sinatra and Josh White hit The House I Live In and the libretto of Robert Kurka's opera "The Good Soldier Schweik". He taught at DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, and on the side was an ardent, but closet, Communist. Meeropol chose to write as Lewis Allan in memory of the names of his two stillborn children. Later, he and his wife Anne adopted Julius and Ethel Rosenberg's two sons, Michael and Robert, after their parents' executions. Michael and Robert took the Meeropol surname. According to Robert Meeropol, "Strange Fruit", "The House I Live In" and the Peggy Lee hit "Apples, Peaches and Cherries" provided most of the royalty income of the family. The latter especially after it had been translated into French by Sacha Distel (French folksinger and sometime boyfriend of Brigitte Bardot). The resulting number one hit in France "Scoubidou" still earns Michael and Robert Meeropol royalties; however, these only started coming in after Distel and Abel Meeropol settled a copyright infringement law suit over Distel's plagiarism.[3] Meeropol died on October 30, 1986 at the Jewish Nursing Home in Longmeadow, Massachusetts.[4] [edit] References ^ David Margolick, Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Café Society, and an Early Cry for Civil Rights (Philadelphia: Running Press, 2000), pp. 16-70. ^ Margolick, Strange Fruit, pp. 31-33, 128-131. ^ Robert Meeropol, An Execution in the family. One Son's Journey (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2003), pp. 47-48. ^ "Abel Meeropol, 83, A Songwriter, Dies". New York Times. October 31, 1986. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F5071EF93F5F0C728FDDA90994DE484D81. Retrieved 2008-08-11. "Abel Meeropol, a songwriter and composer who adopted the sons of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, died of pneumonia yesterday at the Jewish Nursing Home in Longmeadow, Mass. He was 83 years old and had lived in South Miami, Fla., before entering the nursing home.

got my order today! all 5 cd's in good shape! can't wait to spin 'em!

Happy birthday 2010!!!

happy birthday 2010!!!

scalzi rocks! check out "old man's war"!

well i have now heard all 6 of their albums and i have to say that i enjoyed them all! consistently good music! i have the 4-cd set "fairy tales & cryptic chapters" to listen to next. this was the predecessor group to kin ping meh.

happy birthday 2010!!!

i'm in a 70's rock phase atm - and i stumbled upon this group. i had never heard of this group growing up, but they really are good! a terrific cover of the beatles' "come together" on their second album and lots of rockin' originals! check 'em out!!

the range and breadth of jazz knowledge on this board never ceases to amaze me!

just heard my first eldar - "virtue" wow i am impressed!! This kid can play!!!

happy birthday!!!

happy birthday!

boy guys wait until lon gets here! u r in big trouble!!!

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enjoying this atm!

happy birthday 2010!!!

thanks for the tip bentsy!!!

download is fine for me!

Happy birthday 2010!!!