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Gloomy Sunday
"
Gloomy Sunday
" is a song written by
Hungarian
pianist and composer
Rezsô Seress[?]
in
1933
, which allegedly inspired numerous suicides. An English translation by
Sam M. Lewis[?]
was performed in the
1940s
by
Artie Shaw
and
Billie Holiday
. It was banned from airplay by the
BBC
.
Seress himself jumped to his death from his apartment in 1968.
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