gimbel sang the original version of killing me softly.
who sang the original version of killing me softly?
gimbel
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
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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





























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