(Oh yes we were! Here, I'll prove it: scrupulously clean fruit See, Connie's not the only weird one!)
I saw a little of educational TV last night, and got to see Billie Holliday (sp.?) sing Strange Fruit. The narrator was saying that when her "ghost-written autobiography" came out, it implied that the composer, Abel Meeropol, had written it for her. His son (I think it was) said that Mr. M. wrote to the publishing company and asked them to omit that from future editions, as he had not written it for her and in fact his wife, Anna (?) Allen, had been the first to sing it.