roberta flack wrote the lyrics to killing me softly.
roberta flack wrote the lyrics to killing me softly.
who wrote the lyrics to killing me softly?
roberta flack
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
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killing me softly may refer to:









































bullet::::- "killing me softly with his song", a 1971 song performed most notably by roberta flack in 1973, and subsequently covered by several other performers









































bullet::::- "killing me softly" (roberta flack album), 1973









































bullet::::- "killing me softly" (ferrante & teicher album), 1973









































bullet::::- "killing me softly" (film), a 2002 erotic thriller starring heather graham and joseph fiennes









































bullet::::- "killing me softly" (novel), a 1999 psychological thriller novel by nicci french, that the film is based upon









































section::::see also.









































bullet::::- "killing me softly with his height", an episode of "hannah montana"
killing me softly