Name | Killing Me Softly with His Song |
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Cover | Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly with His Song.jpg |
Artist | Roberta Flack |
Album | Killing Me Softly |
B-side | "Just Like a Woman" |
Released | January 21, 1973 |
Format | 7" single |
Recorded | 1972 |
Genre | Soul |
Length | 4:46 |
Label | Atlantic |
Writer | Charles FoxNorman Gimbel |
Last single | "Where Is the Love"(1972) |
This single | "Killing Me Softly with His Song"(1973) |
Next single | "Jesse"(1973) |
Name | Killing Me Softly |
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Cover | kmsoftlyfugees.jpg |
Artist | The Fugees |
Album | The Score |
Released | May 31, 1996 |
Format | CD Single |
Recorded | 1995 |
Genre | Hip hop soul |
Length | 4:16 |
Label | Ruffhouse |
Producer | A Tribe Called Quest, The Fugees |
Last single | "Fu-Gee-La"(1996) |
This single | "Killing Me Softly"(1996) |
Next single | "Ready or Not"(1996) |
"Killing Me Softly with His Song" is a 1971 song composed by Charles Fox and Norman Gimbel. It has been covered by numerous artists, most notably by Roberta Flack whose version topped the U.S. pop singles charts and won a Grammy Award; and The Fugees whose rendition charted at number two, contributing to their Grammy Award-winning album, ''The Score.
:I came to California in the mid-sixties. I was introduced to the Argentinean born composer named Lalo Schifrin (then of Mission Impossible fame). I ended up writing songs to a number of his motion pictures. I suggested we write a Broadway Musical together. He gave me an Argentinean novel translated into English from the Spanish to read as a possible idea. Suffice it to say, we never made a musical from the book -- but in one of the chapters, the principal character describes himself as sitting alone in a bar drinking and listening to an American pianist "Killing me softly with his blues". I put it in my "idea" book for use at a future time with a parenthesis around the word "blues" and substituted the word "song" instead. Many years later, Lori Lieberman saw Don McLean in concert. I then wrote the lyric and gave it to Charles Fox to set to music."
According to Lori Lieberman, the artist who performed the original recording, the song was born of a poem she wrote after experiencing a strong reaction to a Don McLean concert. She related this to Gimbel, who took her feelings and put them into words. Then, Gimbel passed the words on to Fox, who set them to music.
In 1999 Flack's version was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. It also ranked #360 on Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and #82 on Billboard's Greatest Songs of all time.
; UK CD2 # "Killing Me Softly" (Album Version With Intro) - 4:16 # "Fu-Gee-La" (Refugee Camp Global Mix) - 4:15 # "Vocab" (Refugees Hip Hop Mix) - 4:07 # "Vocab" (Salaam's Acoustic Remix) - 5:54
In 1975, an instrumental version of "Killing Me Softly" served as the main musical theme of the film The Drowning Pool, starring Paul Newman. Charles Fox received credit as composer and conductor.
In April, 1976. This song covered by Teresa Teng in her album -- World of Love (愛之世界).
R&B; artist Al B. Sure was the next to cover the song in 1988 on his debut album In Effect Mode... and experienced some success with it. He was voted the top new Male R&B; solo artist in 1989.
A Eurodance version was covered by Brazilian singer Regina Saraiva in 1996. This version went on to be a club hit across Europe.
A live instrumental version was recorded by Kermit Ruffins and the Barbecue Swingers in 1998.
In 2009, Susan Boyle, an amateur singer who quickly rose to fame on the internet and in the news media after her appearance on Britain's Got Talent in 2009, used "all her savings" to pay for a professionally cut demo tape, which she later sent to record companies, radio talent competitions, local and national TV and which has now been released on the Internet. It consisted of "Cry Me a River" and her version of "Killing Me Softly with His Song". Boyle gave away a few copies to her close friends.
In 2002, Kimberly Caldwell performed the song during the second season of American Idol.
Urban jazz/R&B; bassist Marcus Miller covered the song live on two of his albums, the first being The Ozell Tapes: The Official Bootleg (2003), and the second is Master of All Trades (2007) with special guest Roberta Flack.
In 2008, saxophonist Jazz Hamilton cover the melody on the album My Soul as a Smooth Latin Jazz Ballad.
The song was covered by Paije Richardson during the first live show of the 2010 UK X Factor.
!Country | !Artist | !Title | !Translated title | !Lyrics by |
Sweden | Lill Lindfors (1973), Lotta Engberg (1997) | "Sången han sjöng var min egen" | "The song he sang was my own" | |
Norway | Inger Lise Rypdal (1973), Penthouse Playboys (1996) | "Sangen han sang var min egen" | "The song he sang was my own" | |
Denmark | Sanne Salomonsen | "Søgte mit indre" | "Sought my innermost" | |
Denmark | Clemens | "Flammende Oprør" (Rap containing samples from Sanne Salomonsen "Søgte mit indre") | "Flaming rebellion" | |
Italy | Marcella Bella (1973), Lara Saint Paul (1973), Ornella Vanoni (1973) | "Mi fa morire cantando" | "He kills me singing" | |
Estonia | Els Himma (1974) | "Millest sa elad ja hingad" | "Of what you live and breathe" | Vally Ojavere |
Brazil | Joanna (1991) | "Morrendo de amor" | "Dying of love" | |
Brazil | Zezé Di Camargo (1986) | "Faz eu perder o juízo" | "Makes me lose my mind" | Alf Soares |
Mexico | "Mátame muy suavemente" | "Kill me very softly" | ||
Japan | "Sing to me tenderly" | |||
[[Argentina">Mariko Takahashi (singer) | "Yasashiku Utatte" | "Sing to me tenderly" | ||
[[Argentina | Sergio Denis | "Matándome suavemente" | "Killing me softly" | |
Spain | Tino Casal | "Tal como soy" | "The way I am" | |
Spain | Pitingo | "Suavemente me matas con tu canción" | "You kill me softly with your song" | |
Germany | "Etwas in mir wurde traurig" | "Something inside me became sad" | ||
Czech Republic | Helena Vondráčková (1974) | "Dvě malá křídla tu nejsou" | "Two little wings are not here" | Zdeněk Borovec |
Finland | Päivi Paunu (1973) | "Jokainen päivä on liikaa" | "Every day is too much" | |
Poland | Anna Jantar | "Zabijasz mnie swoją piosenką" | "You're killing me with your song" | |
France | Gilbert Montagné | "Elle chantait ma vie en musique" | "She was singing my life in music" | |
Cuba | Omara Portuondo (2006) | "Matándome suavemente" | "Killing me softly" | |
Vietnam | Khánh Hà , Thùy Hương | "Nỗi Đau Dịu Dàng" | "Soft pain" | |
Vietnam | Thuy Chi ft. Vuong Khang | "Lac Loi" | "Lost Along The Way" | |
Greece | Marina Adamopoulou (1974), Aleka Kannelidou (1981) | "Τ' Αγόρι" (1974), "Πόσο γλυκά με σκοτώνεις" (1981) | "The Boy", "How sweetly you kill me" | Dimitris Iatropoulos |
Bulgaria | Yordanka Hristova (1973) | "Всичко започна през юни" | "It all started in June" | Hr. Platov |
Netherlands | De Foetsies (1996) | "Hij maakte me gek (...met z'n vingers)" | "He made me crazy (...with his fingers)" |
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