"
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.