lori lieberman sang killing me softly in the 70s.
lori lieberman sang killing me softly in the 70s.
who sang killing me softly in the 70s?
lori lieberman
for the 1982 animated cult movie "the flight of dragons", produced by jules bass and arthur rankin, jr., mclean sang the opening theme. however, no soundtrack has ever been released. another hit song associated with mclean (though never recorded by him) is "killing me softly with his song", which was claimed by lori lieberman to have been written about mclean after she, also a singer-songwriter, saw him singing his composition "empty chairs" in concert. afterwards (according to lieberman) she wrote a poem about the experience and shared it with norman gimbel, who had long been searching for a way to use a phrase he had copied from a novel badly translated from spanish to english, "killing me softly with his blues". allegedly, gimbel and charles fox reworked the poem and the phrase into the song "killing me softly with his song", originally recorded by lieberman and later by roberta flack (and later recorded by the fugees). this claim was disputed, notably by fox. subsequently, however, the matter reached an unequivocal conclusion when contemporaneous articles from the early 1970s were exhumed, all of them vindicating lieberman.
don mclean
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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