Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index "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. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.