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"Killing Me Softly with His Song" is a song composed by Charles Fox with lyrics by Norman Gimbel. The lyrics were written in collaboration with Lori Lieberman after she was inspired by a Don McLean performance in late 1971. Denied writing credit by Fox and Gimbel, Lieberman released her version of the song in 1972, but it did not chart.
On her own, Flack scored her second No. 1 hit in 1973, "Killing Me Softly with His Song" written by Charles Fox, Norman Gimbel l, and Lori Lieberman. [44] "Killing Me Softly" was awarded both Record of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female, at the 1974 Grammy Awards.
Charles Ira Fox (born October 30, 1940) is an American composer for film and television. His compositions include the sunshine pop musical backgrounds which accompanied every episode of the 1970s ABC-TV show Love, American Style; the theme song for the late 1970s ABC series The Love Boat; and the dramatic theme music to ABC's Wide World of Sports [1] and the original Monday Night Football; as ...
Roberta Flack, the singer-songwriter behind the landmark hits 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face' and 'Killing Me Softly With His Song,' dies. She was 88.
2023 marked 50 years since the release of Flack’s most famous album, Killing Me Softly.Rolling Stone later named Flack’s version of “Killing Me Softly With His Song” to its list of the 500 ...
Side one [5] "And I Love You So" (Words and music by Don McLean) - 3:18 "Killing Me Softly With Her Song" (Music by Charles Fox, lyrics by Norman Gimbel) - 4:29 "For the Good Times" (Words and music by Kris Kristofferson) - 3:38
Lori Lieberman (born November 15, 1951) is an American singer-songwriter who accompanies herself on guitar and piano. [1] She co-wrote and recorded the first version of "Killing Me Softly with His Song", which became a hit single for Roberta Flack in 1973, and again in 1996 with a new arrangement by the Fugees.
Killing Me Softly is the fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter Roberta Flack, released on August 1, 1973, by Atlantic Records. [3] She recorded the album with producer Joel Dorn for 18 months. [4] The album was dedicated to Rahsaan Roland Kirk. [5]