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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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