LET'S JUST HOP INTO IT :
1- You must have heard about it before but, today in this article, I am going to explain how it happened and from where everything started.
2- The song named "GLOOMY SUNDAY" Hungarian is also known as "HUNGARIAN SUICIDE SONG."
3- This song was composed by Hungarian pianist and composer Rezső Seress and lyrics by László Jávor. It was published in 1933. The song was first recorded in 1935 in Hungarian by Pál Kalmár.
4- The title of the original lyrics was "Vége a világnak" (the world is ending).
The Actual Case:
1- The song was in the spotlight until 1936, which started connecting with many suicides and got banned there.
2- American audience grabbed the chance and made many versions of the Hungarian Suicide song, and at the end of 1936, many versions were available for the American audience. But the other version didn't do much justice to the original.
3- The most famous in all the reprised versions was by Billie Holiday.
| Both sexes rank | Country | Continent | Both sexes | Males | Females | Male: Female ratio | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Number | Rank | Number | |||||
| 35 |  Hungary | Europe | 13.6 | 31 | 22.2 | 45 | 6.2 | 3.58 |
5- 17 suicides were reported before the alleged "Gloomy Sunday" ban. It was reported that people killed themselves after listening to the song or performing or recording. It was also said that the people mentioned about "Gloomy Sunday" song in their suicide notes and held the sheet of the music in their hand.
6- Some sources claimed that this song has not encouraged any suicides in the USA, while some reported the suicides (200 worldwide in both USA and Britain) after the Billie Holiday song.
Some sources claimed that Javor wrote this song for her beloved, and after listening to this song, she committed suicide and left a note that simply reads out to be GLOOMY SUNDAY.
7- Rezső Seress also committed suicide in 1968 by jumping from the Budapest building.
8- Some claimed he was depressed because he couldn't produce any other hit after the "Gloomy Sunday."
9- So, in my opinion, it was just an exaggerated move by the media and by the locals. And the ban was removed in 2002.
Inspired by: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/gloomy-sunday/