A music professor breaks down Roberta Flack's Killing Me Softly with His Song
Roberta Flack did not write Killing Me Softly. There is some dispute about who did. Two music industry veterans were involved: composer Charles Fox (who also wrote a lot of TV theme songs, including The Love Boat) and lyricist Norman Gimbel.
What she gave to that song was … something I never, ever could have imagined,” said Lori Lieberman, who originally released ...
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 ...
Flack "moved me and showed me through her own creative choices and standards what else was possible within the idiom of Soul, ...
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