[HN Gopher] Opening night at the Apollo Theater, 90 years ago
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       Opening night at the Apollo Theater, 90 years ago
        
       Author : geox
       Score  : 27 points
       Date   : 2024-01-27 15:13 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
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       | johndhi wrote:
       | Awesome I just rewatch Chris Rock's 1999 comedy special filmed
       | there, last night.
        
       | AlbertCory wrote:
       | > It's the place where a young Black artist named Billie Holiday
       | put on a controversial performance of "Strange Fruit" in 1959
       | America,
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       | I was going to say she was dead by then, but it turns out there
       | IS a recording from 1959, the year she died:
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       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DGY9HvChXk
       | 
       | I still think he probably meant 1939 when she actually was young.
        
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