"GLOOMY SUNDAY"
BANS ON "SUICIDE SONG"
(Received April 7, 1.20 p.m.)
LONDON, April 6.
The "Sun-Herald" agency says that the song "Gloomy . Sunday" was dubbed a "suicide song" in Hungary, where it was written, because it is stated that it has been responsible fop eighteen suicides. Now an American lad from Michigan, aged 13, has been found hanging with the words •of the song in his coat pocket. ; : Gipsy orchestras in Budapest are not allowed to play the song, and the British Broadcasting Commission has also forbidden it, but Parisians endure it without rushing to gas ovens.
The song is tuneful, and the words are about an unhappy man who warns his unfaithful sweetheart of a Sunday when she would see him cold and lifeless. __ -
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 83, 7 April 1936, Page 12
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