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The accompanying music video for "Killing Me Softly", directed by Aswad Ayinde [68] and based on Lauryn Hill's ideas, won an MTV Video Music Award for Best R&B Video. [69] The video depicts the trio watching a movie in a cinema. It also features a cameo of Roberta Flack. [57] [70]
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 Cleopatra Flack (born February 10, 1937) [2] [3] is an American retired singer who topped the Billboard charts with the No. 1 singles "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", "Killing Me Softly with His Song", and "Feel Like Makin' Love".
Killing Me Softly with His Songs – Produced by Danny Gold, Robert Bader, Lisa Lautenberg Birer, Mark Brown, Jay Firestone, Phil Ittner, and Bruce Levine; Directed by Danny Gold Halftime – Produced by Courtney Baxter, Jason B. Bergh, Bernardo Loyola, Christopher Rouse, and Yong Yam; Directed by Amanda Micheli and Sam Wrench
The following year, their version of "Killing Me Softly" was placed on the revised version of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. [88] MTV ranked it the ninth-greatest hip-hop group of all time (2007). BET placed the group on its list of 'Hip Hop's Greatest Trios' (2012).
Lieberman, Gimbel and Fox collaborated on the song's title, adapted from Gimbel's notebook of ideas. The song became "Killing Me Softly with His Song", which Lieberman recorded in 1972 in the folk style. Gimbel and Fox produced the song and took full writing credit, cutting Lieberman out of future profits. [6]
Killing Me Softly with His Song", a 1971 song performed most notably by Roberta Flack in 1973, and subsequently covered by several other performers; Killing Me Softly with Her Song, a 1973 album by Johnny Mathis "Killing Me Softly with His Height", an episode of Hannah Montana; Killing 'em Softly, a 1982 Canadian film
The concert featured Hill's nearly a cappella rendition of "Killing Me Softly". The event was recorded by director Michel Gondry and was released on March 3, 2006, to universal acclaim. [ 86 ] The Fugees also appeared at BET Awards 2005 during June 2005, where they opened the show with a 12-minute set.