“GLOOMY SUNDAY.”
AN UNHAPPY SONG. LONDON, April 6. The Sun-Herald Service says the soim, “Gloomy Sunday, was dubbed the “suicide song” in Hungary, where it was written, because it was stated to have’ been responsible for eighteen suicides. Now a Michigan (U.S.) lad of thirteen has been found handed with the words of the song in his coat pocket. . Gipsy orchestras m Budapest are not allowed to play the song, and the British Broadcasting Commission has also forbidden it, but Parisians endure it without rushing to the gas oveiis. The song is tuneful. The words concern an unhappy man who warns his unfaithful sweetheart of the _ “last Sunday’ 1 ’ when she would seo him cold and lifeless.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 109, 8 April 1936, Page 9
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