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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.
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.
The very next year, Flack's "Killing Me Softly With His Song" — another cover given new life by her expressive interpretation (Lori Lieberman first recorded it in 1971) — took home a Grammy in ...
In 2020, The Score ranked 134th on the revised version of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. [86] 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. [87] MTV ranked it the ninth-greatest hip-hop group of all time (2007).
Produced by Dorn, Flack’s lustrous version shot to No. 1 on the pop chart and No. 2 on the R&B charts in early 1973; the “Killing Me Softly” album peaked at No. 3 and went double platinum.
In 1991, Flack found herself again in the US Top 10 with a cover of the Diane Warren-penned song "Set the Night to Music", performed as a duet with British-Jamaican reggae singer [55] Maxi Priest, that peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts and No. 2 AC. [56] [57] In 1996 The Fugees released a hip-hop remix of "Killing Me Softly". [58]
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.
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