Gloomy Sunday

E178491
jazz ballad popular song song

Gloomy Sunday is a haunting jazz ballad, often called the "Hungarian Suicide Song," that gained enduring fame through Billie Holiday’s emotionally powerful 1941 recording.

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All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Gloomy Sunday canonical 3
Hungarian Suicide Song 2
Gloomy Sunday (English lyrics) 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf jazz ballad ⓘ
popular song ⓘ
song ⓘ
associatedWithArtist Billie Holiday ⓘ
associatedWithUrbanLegend suicides allegedly linked to the song ⓘ
composer Rezső Seress ⓘ
countryOfOrigin Hungary ⓘ
firstPopularizedBy Pál Kalmár ⓘ
genre jazz ⓘ
jazz ballad ⓘ
popular music ⓘ
hasAlternativeName Gloomy Sunday ⓘ
surface form: Hungarian Suicide Song
hasCulturalImpact inspired films ⓘ
referenced in literature ⓘ
referenced in popular culture ⓘ
hasEnglishLyricsBy Desmond Carter ⓘ
Sam M. Lewis ⓘ
hasForm ballad ⓘ
hasMood dark ⓘ
melancholic ⓘ
somber ⓘ
hasOriginalTitle Szomorú vasárnap ⓘ
hasReputation Gloomy Sunday self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Hungarian Suicide Song

haunting ⓘ
hasSubjectMatter death ⓘ
despair ⓘ
heartbreak ⓘ
hasTitle Gloomy Sunday self-link ⓘ
languageOfNotableRecording English ⓘ
lyricist László Jávor ⓘ
notablePerformer Billie Holiday ⓘ
Bjork ⓘ
surface form: Björk

Paul Robeson ⓘ
Sarah McLachlan ⓘ
notableRecordingBy Billie Holiday ⓘ
notableRecordingYear 1941 ⓘ
notableVersion Billie Holiday 1941 recording ⓘ
originalLanguage Hungarian ⓘ
recordLabelOfNotableVersion Okeh Records ⓘ
releaseDecade 1930s ⓘ
subjectOf urban legends about bans by radio stations ⓘ
tempo slow ⓘ
theme lost love ⓘ
melancholy ⓘ
suicide ⓘ
usesInstrumentation piano ⓘ
voice ⓘ

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Billie Holiday → notableWork → Gloomy Sunday ⓘ
Gloomy Sunday → hasTitle → Gloomy Sunday self-link ⓘ
Gloomy Sunday → hasAlternativeName → Gloomy Sunday ⓘ
this entity surface form: Hungarian Suicide Song
Gloomy Sunday → hasReputation → Gloomy Sunday self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Hungarian Suicide Song
Eleanora → hasNotableWork → Gloomy Sunday ⓘ
subject surface form: Eleanora Fagan
Sam M. Lewis → notableWork → Gloomy Sunday ⓘ
this entity surface form: Gloomy Sunday (English lyrics)