lori lieberman sang killing me softly with his song first.
lori lieberman sang killing me softly with his song first.
who sang killing me softly with his song first?
lori lieberman
when dan macintosh (songfacts) spoke with charles fox in 2010, he refuted this story: "i think it's called an urban legend. it really didn't happen that way. norman gimbel and i wrote that song for a young artist whose name was lori lieberman. norman had a book that he would put titles of songs, song ideas and lyrics or something that struck him at different times. and he pulled out the book and he was looking through it, and he says, 'hey, what about a song title, 'killing me softly with his blues'?' well, the 'killing me softly' part sounded very interesting, 'with his blues' sounded old fashioned in 1972 when we wrote it. so he thought for a while and he said, 'what about 'killing me softly with his song'? that has a unique twist to it.' so we discussed what it could be, and obviously it's about a song - listening to the song and being moved by the words. it's like the words are speaking to what that person's life is. anyway, norman went home and wrote an extraordinary lyric and called me later in the afternoon. i jotted it down over the phone. i sat down and the music just flowed right along with the words. and we got together the next morning and made a couple of adjustments with it and we played it for lori, and she loved it, she said it reminds her of being at a don mclean concert. so in her act, when she would appear, she would say that. and somehow the words got changed around so that we wrote it based on don mclean, and even don mclean i think has it on his web site. but he doesn't know. you know, he only knows what the legend is."
killing me softly with his song
gagné agreed to turn over evidence to the crown after he was arrested in december 1997, and in his confession he named tousignant and fontaine as his fellow killers. fontaine fled to mexico after gagné implicated him where he lived for a number of years. he later returned to canada, and in may 2004 he was arrested in quebec city, where he was living under the assumed name jean goyer, and in october 2008, he went on trial in montreal and was convicted in february 2009 of one count of first degree murder for killing rondeau. tousignant, a "prospect" for the nomads who disappeared after gagné's confession, was found murdered, being shot twice and his body then set afire. tousignant was last seen alive on 7 december 1997 going to see boucher. fontaine's boyfriend was serge boutin, the chief drug-dealer in montreal's gay village. unlike tousignant, fontaine was kept alive as boucher wanted to keep the services of boutin. the corpse of tousignant was found buried in a shallow grave in the eastern townships on 27 february 1998 and his murder was never solved. on 18 december 1997 boucher was arrested and charged with two counts of first degree murder.
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