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Killing Me Softly with His Song "Killing Me Softly with His Song" is a song composed by Charles Fox with lyrics by Norman Gimbel. The song was written in collaboration with Lori Lieberman, who recorded the song in late 1971. In 1973 it became a number-one hit in the United States and Canada for Roberta Flack, also reaching number six in the UK Singles Chart. The song has been covered by many artists; the version by the Fugees won the 1997 Grammy for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. According to Lori Lieberman, who performed the
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Killing Me Softly with His Song "Killing Me Softly with His Song" is a song composed by Charles Fox with lyrics by Norman Gimbel. The song was written in collaboration with Lori Lieberman, who recorded the song in late 1971. In 1973 it became a number-one hit in the United States and Canada for Roberta Flack, also reaching number six in the UK Singles Chart. The song has been covered by many artists; the version by the Fugees won the 1997 Grammy for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. According to Lori Lieberman, who performed the
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a half stars in his retrospective review, writing that the album "continued in the same tradition as "Chapter Two" and "A Quiet Fire"", featuring "simmering ballads, declarative message songs, and better-than-average up-tempo numbers". Credits are adapted from AllMusic. Killing Me Softly (Roberta Flack album) Killing Me Softly is a studio album by American singer-songwriter Roberta Flack, released on August 1, 1973, by Atlantic Records. She recorded the album with producer Joel Dorn for 18 months. "Killing Me Softly" reached number three on the "Billboard" Top LPs & Tape and number two on the Soul LPs chart. The Recording Industry Association
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reviewed the song, saying: "It's a lovely cover that maintains the spirit of the original while taking the material in new directions." The video, directed by Aswad Ayinde and based on Lauryn Hill's ideas, never came out commercially in America. It features Roberta Flack. The Fugees recorded a dancehall version with Bounty Killer rapping and Hill singing a rewritten chorus. However, they did not receive permission to release it on "The Score". UK CD1 UK CD2 Killing Me Softly with His Song "Killing Me Softly with His Song" is a song composed by Charles Fox with lyrics by Norman Gimbel.
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Killing Me Softly (Roberta Flack album) Killing Me Softly is a studio album by American singer-songwriter Roberta Flack, released on August 1, 1973, by Atlantic Records. She recorded the album with producer Joel Dorn for 18 months. "Killing Me Softly" reached number three on the "Billboard" Top LPs & Tape and number two on the Soul LPs chart. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified the album gold on August 27, 1973, and double platinum on January 30, 2006, denoting shipments of two million copies in the United States. It was nominated for a Grammy Award for Album of
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topped the Hot Dance Club Play chart. Flack and the Fugees have performed the song together since then. In 2008, "Killing Me Softly" was ranked number 25 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop and number 44 on its list of the "100 Greatest Songs of the '90s". "Killing Me Softly" was the last song the Fugees recorded for "The Score", after member Pras Michael made the suggestion to cover it. They wanted to "see how we can create break beats. And of course, we all love A Tribe Called Quest and we went in like 'Okay, let’s cut
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Roberta Flack Roberta Cleopatra Flack (born February 10, 1937 or 1939) is an American singer. She is known for her #1 singles "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", "Killing Me Softly with His Song" and "Feel Like Makin' Love", and for "Where Is the Love" and "The Closer I Get to You", two of her many duets with Donny Hathaway. Flack is the only solo artist to win the Grammy Award for Record of the Year on two consecutive years: "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" won at the 1973 Grammys as did "Killing Me Softly
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and "No Woman, No Cry" – did not appear on the "Billboard" Hot 100 as they were not released for commercial sale, making them ineligible to appear on the chart, although they all received sufficient airplay to appear on the Hot 100 Airplay and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay charts. "Killing Me Softly", a cover of the Roberta Flack song "Killing Me Softly with His Song", performed strongly in other territories, topping the singles charts in Australia, Austria, Germany and the United Kingdom, among several others. "Ready or Not" also peaked at number one in the United Kingdom and number three in
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from "The Score"; "Fu-Gee-La", the first single from the album, peaked at number 29 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 and was certified gold by the RIAA and by the Bundesverband Musikindustrie (BVMI). The other three singles – "Killing Me Softly", "Ready or Not" and "No Woman, No Cry" – did not appear on the "Billboard" Hot 100 as they were not released for commercial sale, making them ineligible to appear on the chart, although they all received sufficient airplay to appear on the Hot 100 Airplay and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay charts. "Killing Me Softly", a cover of the Roberta Flack
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Softly") on their album "The Score" (1996), with Lauryn Hill singing the lead vocals. Their version became a hit, reaching number two on the U.S. airplay chart. The song topped the charts in the United Kingdom, where it became the country's biggest-selling single of 1996. It has since sold 1.36 million copies in Britain. The Fugees recording won the 1997 Grammy for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal and their video earned the MTV Video Music Award for Best R&B Video. This version sampled the 1990 song "Bonita Applebum" by A Tribe Called Quest (ATCQ) from
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Cup 1998 (France '98). The Fugees had the biggest selling single of the year, with a cover of Roberta Flack's "Killing Me Softly With His Song". It sold over a million copies. However, by far the most successful act of the year was the Spice Girls, who kickstarted their career with three number 1 singles – the million-selling "Wannabe" in July, which was one of the longest No 1 stints by any girl group (7 weeks); (Shakespears Sister's "Stay" is the longest girl group No 1, with 8 weeks), and remains the biggest-selling single by a girl group; "Say You'll
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Shaft doo-wop bands The Orioles (based out of D.C., though from Baltimore), The Clovers, The Rainbows Scott McKenzie (known for "If You're Going to San Francisco"), Sinbad, R&B singer Ruth Brown, and country star Roy Clark. During this period, Washington began to develop its own music scene, with a number of styles evolving by the end of the century. Some popular singers from later decades include Roberta Flack (#1 hit "Killing Me Softly with His Song"), Root Boy Slim & the Sex Change Band ("You Broke My Mood Ring"), singer-songwriter Tori Amos, Herb Fame (of Peaches & Herb) who had
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I didn't like the title". Roberta Flack first heard the song on an airline, when the Lieberman original was featured on the in-flight audio program. After scanning the listing of available audio selections, Flack would recall: "The title, of course, smacked me in the face. I immediately pulled out some scratch paper, made musical staves [then] play[ed] the song at least eight to ten times jotting down the melody that I heard. When I landed, I immediately called Quincy [Jones] at his house and asked him how to meet Charles Fox. Two days later I had the music." Shortly afterwards
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YouTube video that was published on March 22, 2014. During the interview, Fatman Scoop reveals that he received his stage name when he was a baby from his Uncle Jack, who would call him "Fatman Scoop" because he loved to eat ice cream. People had thought that he received his stage name after appearing in the Fugees 'Killing Me Softly' video as a cinema worker serving popcorn and ice-cream. Lauryn Hill was a massive ice-cream fan herself so would shout 'scoop, scoop, fatman scoop' when she wanted a tub of her favourite snack. But Fatman Scoop stated "I was already
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Roberta Flack sang a cover of "Killing Me Softly with His Song". Co-written with Charles Fox, it was originally written for LA bistro singer Lori Lieberman after she shared a poem with them that she had written after seeing Don McLean live in concert. The song won him his second Grammy Award for Song of the Year. The same year his and Fox's "I Got a Name", recorded by Jim Croce, from the 1973 film "The Last American Hero," was voted "Best Film Song" by the Young New York Film Critics. In 1979 he had his only Emmy nomination for
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said she was very displeased with his attitude, asking him to let the robbers and the hostages leave. Olofsson walked around in the vault singing Roberta Flack's "Killing Me Softly". On August 26, the police drilled a hole into the main vault from the apartment above. From this hole, a widely circulated picture of the hostages with Olofsson was taken. Olofsson also fired his weapon into this hole on two occasions and, during the latter attempt, he wounded a police officer in the hand and face. Olsson fired his weapon and threatened to kill the hostages if any gas attack
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house, his father allowed him to own a record player, on which he played cantorial and religious music. He taught himself to play music on a friend's melodica. While studying at the Manchester Yeshivah in 1973, Green began to write his own songs. During this time he heard Roberta Flack's "Killing Me Softly with His Song" playing from a passing car, and it inspired him to write his own version of soul music, "Kol Berama", which was featured on a Pirchei London album under the direction of Yigal Calek and became an international hit. Green has composed and recorded over
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would take off with The Fugees. Their cover of the Roberta Flack classic, "Killing Me Softly" sung by lead vocalist Lauryn Hill reached No. 2 on the Pop charts and No. 1 on the R&B charts. Co-produced by Wonda, their album The Score would become one of the best-selling hip hop albums of all time gaining worldwide recognition. Wonda would divide his time touring as a bassist and musical director with The Fugees and producing for upcoming artists such as Destiny's Child with a remix of "No No No." He attributes his musical success to tailoring each of his productions
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On December 25, 2017, he announced that he would be teaming up with Live Nation Entertainment Company to feature a full orchestra in Omaha, Columbus, St. Louis, and Dallas. The four shows will each be considered a leg and be called "A Night of Symphonic Hip Hop," and will feature some of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Wyclef has already announced that at these shows he will perform his hit solo song ""Gone till November"," and his hit song with the Fugees ""Killing Me Softly with His Song"." List of concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, opening acts, tickets sold, and amount
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the night before. Anderson has been described as one of the most gifted recording engineers ever to work in Jamaica, and was described by Winston Holness as "the greatest engineer at those times...a genius in the business". He worked for several years for Byron Lee at his Dynamic Sounds studio, working on recordings including the backing track to Roberta Flack's "Killing Me Softly with His Song", and on recordings by The Wailers. He stated in the 1990s that during that period he would record or master up to 100 songs a day. He also recorded for Lee himself, including the
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the cut for the Top 20. Tandingan sang "Killing Me Softly with His Song" by Roberta Flack during the Judges' home visit. On week 9, she landed on the bottom 2 for the first time with teammate Allen Sta. Maria, but she survived elimination. Tandingan was Charice's last remaining act after Allen Sta. Maria was eliminated on week 9. She reached the grand finals on October 7, 2012 and was proclaimed the winner of "The X Factor Philippines". On January 7, 2013, Tandingan entered the "Himig Handog" contest with the song entry called "Scared To Death", written by Domingo Rosco
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of the Land" mostly contains songs that had already been recorded by other artists. The album features covers of Roberta Flack's "Killing Me Softly With His Song", The Beatles' "With A Little Help From My Friends", Traffic's "Feelin' Alright" and Dionne Warwick's "Walk On By". "Law of the Land" also contains the original version of "Papa Was A Rollin' Stone" (US #63, US R&B #24), which Norman Whitfield rerecorded into a huge hit for his other group, The Temptations. The album's title track was also recorded by both The Temptations and The Undisputed Truth; The Tempts' version was released as
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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.'
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Killing Me Softly (novel) Killing Me Softly is a psychological thriller by writing team Nicci French from 1999. Alice Loudon, a pharmaceutical researcher who lives in London, leaves her boyfriend Jake to marry Adam Tallis, a mountain climber she met only recently. When Adam shows violent behaviour, Alice starts asking questions about his past. She finds out that he saved people's lives during an expedition on the Chungawat in the Himalayas. Several people had died on this expedition, including his former girlfriend Françoise. A woman who read an article about the rescue claimed to have been raped by Adam, but
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he has been acquitted. When Alice starts to suspect that Adam has killed several of his ex-girlfriends, people around her think she needs psychiatric help. Publishers Weekly: "With lucid and limber prose, French delves into Alice's thoughts as skillfully as she describes the London setting. The pacing is swift and the dialogue sharp and realistic." In Kaige Chen's film adaptation of 2002 Heather Graham played Alice, and Joseph Fiennes Adam. Killing Me Softly (novel) Killing Me Softly is a psychological thriller by writing team Nicci French from 1999. Alice Loudon, a pharmaceutical researcher who lives in London, leaves her boyfriend
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"Mathis may have been recording for 17 years, but this newest work is magical. His clean, sweetly flowing voice is married perfectly to so many fine and outstanding songs that one wonders why they weren't presented to him in the first place. He makes them all come alive." They also appreciated the arrangements here. "There is a fine, gossamer feeling to D'Arneill Pershing's charts which makes the music more than merely commercially romantic." From the liner notes for "": From the liner notes for the original album: Killing Me Softly with Her Song (album) Killing Me Softly with Her Song
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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,
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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
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Killing Me Softly (film) Killing Me Softly is a 2002 American-British erotic thriller film directed by Chen Kaige and starring Heather Graham and Joseph Fiennes. Based on the novel of the same name by Nicci French (pen name of Nicci Gerrard and Sean French), it introduces several substantial changes to the story and focuses heavily on the intense sexual relationship between the two lead characters. The film was released unrated on DVD. It also was Kaige's first, and to date only, English-language film. Alice is a young American woman living in London who believes she is happy in a secure
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Rap Songs chart. The song was produced by Salaam Remi and includes elements of "Ooo La La La" as performed by Teena Marie. The second single, "Killing Me Softly" was released May 31, 1996. Proving to be the most successful single from the album, it instantly reached number two on the "Billboard" Hot 100, as well as number one on the UK Singles Chart. Initially, the song was to be titled "Killing Them Softly", and though alluding to Charles Fox and Norman Gimbel's "Killing Me Softly with His Song", it was originally not intended to be a cover; however, the
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Killing Me Softly with Her Song (album) Killing Me Softly with Her Song is an album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released on May 25, 1973 by Columbia Records and leaned heavily on covers of the latest radio favorites. The album made its first appearance on "Billboard" magazine's Top LP's & Tapes chart in the issue dated June 30, 1973, and remained there for seven weeks, peaking at number 120. One of the two original songs on the album, "Show and Tell", began a three-week run on "Billboard"'s Easy Listening chart in that year's May 12 issue
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Fiona and beg her not to commit suicide. She assures him that she has no plans to do so and reveals that Marcus has decided to sing at the school show that day. Will realizes this will be a huge embarrassment for Marcus and rushes with Fiona to the school to stop him, but Marcus is steadfast in his decision to perform, believing it will be the only thing that will make his mother happy. When Marcus steps on stage and sings his mother's favorite song—"Killing Me Softly with His Song"—the student body starts to taunt him. Suddenly, Will appears
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less cocky and more mature and responsible. The film score was composed by Charles Fox who composed hits such as, "Killing Me Softly with His Song" and "I've Got a Name" as well as the theme songs for "Love, American Style", "Happy Days", and "Laverne and Shirley". The movie featured two songs, "Morning Song" and "The All American" with music by Fox and words by his frequent collaborator, Norman Gimbel. Making It (film) Making It is a 1971 dramedy directed by John Erman and written by Peter Bart and James Leigh. It stars Kristoffer Tabori, Bob Balaban, Lawrence Pressman, Joyce
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Flack rehearsed the song with her band in the Tuff Gong Studios in Kingston, Jamaica, but did not then record it. In September 1972, Flack was opening for Marvin Gaye at the Greek Theater; after performing her prepared encore song, Flack was advised by Gaye to sing an additional song. Flack later said, "I said well, I got this song I've been working on called 'Killing Me Softly...' and he said 'Do it, baby.' And I did it and the audience went crazy, and he walked over to me and put his arm around me and said, 'Baby, don't ever
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televised appearance and the "New York Post" said it showed that Boyle was "not a one-trick pony." "Hello!" said the recording "cement[ed] her status" as a singing star. In 1998, Boyle recorded three tracks—"Cry Me A River", "Killing Me Softly", and "Don't Cry for Me Argentina"—at Heartbeat Studio, Midlothian. She used all her savings to pay for a professionally cut demo, copies of which she later sent to record companies, radio talent competitions, local and national TV. The demo consisted of her versions of "Cry Me a River" and "Killing Me Softly with His Song"; the songs were uploaded to
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dialogue". In 2009, the site also rated it #12 on the countdown of the worst films over the last 10 years. Killing Me Softly (film) Killing Me Softly is a 2002 American-British erotic thriller film directed by Chen Kaige and starring Heather Graham and Joseph Fiennes. Based on the novel of the same name by Nicci French (pen name of Nicci Gerrard and Sean French), it introduces several substantial changes to the story and focuses heavily on the intense sexual relationship between the two lead characters. The film was released unrated on DVD. It also was Kaige's first, and to
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Ghost (Reggae) Carlton Hylton (born 08 April 1974), better known as Ghost, is a Jamaican reggae singer. He is best known for songs such as "Do You Believe", "Bodyguard", "Love You", "Waiting For You", "Killing Me Softly", "Lonely Is The Night", "One More Chance" and "Nothing At All". He started his career in 1989. In 1989, Ghost recorded his first tune alongside DJ Culture, "Commercial Time", for producer Patrick Livingston. Then came his first solo recording, "Killing Me Softly" for Patrick Roberts on the Punany riddim. In '91 came the big hits for Shocking Vibes, "Do You Remember" and "Something
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with Driver trying to pay a lesser amount and Jackie insisting on the full sum. Referring to Obama's speech, Jackie angrily declares: , "This guy wants to tell me we're living in a community? Don't make me laugh. I'm living in America, and in America, you're on your own. America is not a country; it's just a business. Now fucking pay me." "Killing Them Softly" is based on the 1974 novel "Cogan's Trade" by George V. Higgins, a best selling crime novelist whose works include "The Friends of Eddie Coyle". "Cogan's Trade", like Higgins' other novels, takes place in Boston;
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Two", "Killing Me Softly" and "Quiet Fire". In addition, he wrote the song "Conversation Love" on the album "Killing Me Softly". Later, he moved to Los Angeles to work in the film industry. He wrote the music for over 50 feature films, including the western "Nate and the Colonel", Stephen King's "Sometimes They Come Back", the family film "Mr. Atlas", and the crime drama "One False Move". His score for One False Move was nominated for "Best Score" by the IFC Independent Spirit Awards. In later years, he was guest conductor for the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra and was a frequent
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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." Lieberman was the first to record the song in late 1971, releasing it in early 1972. Helen Reddy has said she was sent the song, but "the demo... sat on my turntable for months without being played because
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uncle Lucas Luna. Tenorio detests Ultima because she lifts the curse on Lucas and soon after she does so, one of Tenorio's daughters dies. Hot-tempered and vengeful, Tenorio spends the rest of the novel plotting Ultima's death, which he finally achieves by killing her owl familiar, her spiritual guardian. Afterwards, he tries to kill Antonio but is shot by Uncle Pedro. Ultima's Owl – Embodies Ultima's soul, the power of her mysticism, and her life force. The song the owl sings softly outside Antonio's window at night indicates Ultima's presence and magical protection in Antonio's life. Ultima's owl scratches Tenorio's
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Adam stops at the top and turns to stare back at Alice before walking away. The film ends with Alice's voiceover recalling the events in posterity and wondering what might have happened had fate not led her to Adam one morning. She wonders if the passion between them could ever have lasted, and if a "flatlander" like her could ever have stayed at such a high altitude . At least that's what she tells herself anyway. Filming commenced on October 29, 2000, and was mostly based in or around London and Cumbria, England. "Killing Me Softly" was released on June
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21, 2002, in the UK. MGM initially planned a 2002 wide release in the US, but this was cancelled in favor of a direct-to-DVD launch on March 25, 2003. "Variety" later characterized the film's international release as "a painful failure". On August 13, 2013, Shout! Factory released "Killing Me Softly" on Blu-ray along with "The Hot Spot" as part of a double feature. The film received a 0% approval rating at Rotten Tomatoes based on 22 reviews; the site's consensus is: "Respected director Chen Kaige's first English-language film is a spectacularly misguided erotic thriller, with ludicrous plot twists and cringe-worthy
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induce". "Billboard" called the record a "delicate, introspective work" by Flack, whom the magazine deemed a "masterful interpreter of clean lyrics fusing a sophisticated pop sound with that dark side of the blues". Robert Christgau was less impressed in "Creem", giving "Killing Me Softly" a "C" while comparing Flack negatively to Jesse Colin Young because she also "always makes you wonder whether she's going to fall asleep before you do". In a retrospective review, "The Rolling Stone Album Guide" (1992) gave the record two-and-a-half out of five stars and found its music "innocuous". AllMusic's Ron Wynn gave it four and
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2, 2011 Originally aired March 9, 2011 Title references: Spoofs the popular song "Killing Me Softly with His Song" (or the Dave Chappelle comedy special "Killing 'Em Softly"). Originally aired March 16, 2011 Note: This is the fifth episode not to feature the death of a female. Title References: The phrase "Better them than us" Originally aired March 23, 2011 Originally aired March 29, 2011 Title reference: Spoofs the saying "Stupid Is as Stupid Does". (Second episode to do so; first was "Stupid is as Stupid Dies.) Originally aired July 11, 2011 Title reference: Spoofs the title show "Mister Ed".
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the Year, which it lost to Stevie Wonder's 1973 album "Innervisions". The album's title track was released as a single and topped the "Billboard" Hot 100. It won the 1974 Grammy Award for Record of the Year. In a contemporary review for the "Chicago Tribune", Clarence Page said "Killing Me Softly" has a hit title track and "other potential hits, adding up to one of [Flack's] better albums". John S. Wilson, writing in "The New York Times", felt that Flack and producer Joel Dorn "have resisted the pitfalls of overproducing that you would suppose such a long gestation period would
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and Schifrin made a suggestion to write a Broadway musical together, and Schifrin gave Gimbel an Argentinean novel—"Hopscotch" by Julio Cortázar—to read as a possible idea. The book was never made into a musical, but in chapter two, the narrator describes himself as sitting in a bar listening to an American pianist friend "kill us softly with some blues". Gimbel put the phrase in his "idea book" for use at a future time with a parenthesis around the word "blues" and substituted the word "song" instead. Don McLean said he had not know that the song described his singing and,
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and his wife was sitting by his bedside. As she began to doze off, he felt himself beginning to die and he wrote the words to the song on a notepad. However, Elvis insiders claim that his explanation for the song was merely an example of Presley's flair for storytelling, so his explanation is most likely apocryphal. Elvis said he heard the story "from some people in Florida." Elvis doesn't actually sing this song; he speaks the words while his backing tenor Sherrill Nielsen sings it. Elvis's one recorded version of this song was a bootleg made by a fan
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Flack won the 1973 Grammy Award for Record of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female, for the single, with Gimbel and Fox earning the Song of the Year Grammy. In 1996 a house remix of Flack's version went to number one on the US dance chart. In 1999 Flack's version was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. It ranked number 360 on "Rolling Stone"s list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and number 82 on "Billboard"s greatest songs of all time. Hip hop group Fugees covered the Flack version of the song (as "Killing Me
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me so hot/You make me wanna drop." The song structurally takes a dramatic turn during the bridge in which she drops the persona of being crazy in love to candidly tell her lover how real and raw her emotions are, aside from the public display, "Kiss me gently, always, I know, hold me, love me, don't ever go," she sings softly. A Japanese version of the song was released as a ringtone in Japan, with the Japanese lyrics replacing the chorus. In China, a Mandarin version of the song was released which replaced the chorus and the introduction with Mandarin
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job and a relationship with her boyfriend. After a chance encounter with a mysterious stranger, she seeks him out, taking a taxi with him to his house and having passionate sex. She returns home to her boyfriend and unsuccessfully attempts to bring out the same feelings between them that she had with the strange man. The following day she seeks the stranger out again, discovering his name is Adam - a mountain climber who is considered a hero after saving six people in a tragic event that killed several others, including the woman he loved. Alice leaves her boyfriend and
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carries out the hit on Markie himself but brings in another hitman named Mickey Fallon, who is on parole in New York, to kill Squirrel. Jackie explains to Driver how he prefers "killing them softly"—shooting his victims from a distance, without warning, giving them no opportunity to experience fear or despair—and that his acquaintance with Squirrel risks complicating this approach. Mickey postpones going through with his assigned hit, and instead indulges in drunkenness and sex with prostitutes in a hotel room. During conversation with Jackie, Mickey reveals that he has violated his parole, and doesn't seem to either care about
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original recording in 1971, the song was born of a poem she wrote after experiencing a strong reaction to the Don McLean song "Empty Chairs", writing some poetic ideas on a napkin at the Troubadour Club after seeing him perform the song, and then relating this information to Norman Gimbel, who took her feelings and converted them into song lyrics. Gimbel passed his lyrics to Charles Fox, who set them to music. According to Gimbel, he was introduced to the Argentinian-born composer Lalo Schifrin (then of "" fame) and began writing songs to a number of Schifrin's films. Both Gimbel
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Killing Them Softly Killing Them Softly is a 2012 American neo-noir crime film directed by Andrew Dominik and starring Brad Pitt, based on George V. Higgins' novel "Cogan's Trade" (1974). On May 22, 2012, the film premiered in competition for the Palme d'Or at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and received positive early reviews. The film is about three small-time crooks who rob a Mob-protected illegal gambling operation, which prompts the Mob to send in two hitmen, Jackie (Pitt) and Mickey (James Gandolfini), to deal with the perpetrators. During the American financial crisis and presidential election campaign in the fall
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a puppet who has broken free of his controllers and quotes the entire first verse throughout the movie. In "Legends of Tomorrow", when the protagonists learn that their actions have been manipulated by the Time Masters, Captain Cold sacrifices himself to destroy the source of the Time Masters' power. As he rejects the idea that he is anyone's puppet, his last words are to proclaim "There are no strings on "me"". Earlier in his timeline, in "The Flash" episode "Infantino Street", Snart says "No strings on me" to Barry Allen as they part company, then repeats it softly to himself
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couples. Like in her series "Killing Me Softly - Todesarten" she uses authentic histories to visualize the last moment of these peoples lives. The series includes Stefan Zweig and Lotte Zweig, Heinrich von Kleist and Henriette Vogel, André Gorz and his wife Dorine, Jochen Klepper and his wife Johanna Stein and her daughter Renate, Arthur Koester and Cynthia Jefferies, Bernard und Georgette Cazes and others. "Liebesmüh`- Loves Labour" is a series of five videos with a total running time of 30 minutes. It depicts fictional female characters who were created by male authors in the end of 19th century. The
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Börje Fredriksson and Jan Allan. "Rune at the Top" was published in 1969 and included the Norwegian drummer Jon Christensen. He played in the Arne Domnérus duo (Dialog, 1972) and his various orchestras, with Jan Johansson, Georg Riedel, Cornelis Vreeswijk. "Rune Gustafsson Himself Plays Gilbert O'Sullivan" (1973), "Killing Me Softly" (1973) and "Move" (1977), was recorded with Egil Johansen, who was one of Gustafsson's most popular jazz partners. "On a Clear Day" (Sonet, SLP 2581, 1976) included Red Mitchell and Duke Ellington's drummer Ed Thigpen. He played with Zoot Sims on two recordings: "The Sweetest Sounds" (1979) and "In a
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any means, but this enjoyable, contemporary-sounding set made the charts." He also points out that "unlike Bennett, who had [left] Columbia the year before, Mathis had no resistance to contemporary material; he sounded fine singing it. And though he had never had much of an impact in the R&B market, he was an African-American who could handle the Stylistics and Gladys Knight songs credibly, substituting his trademark tremulousness for their more soulful approach. At the same time, he could match both Perry Como and newer soft-rock stars like Bread and the Carpenters." At the time of the album's release, "Billboard"
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make a good song so the three of us discussed it. We talked it over several times, just as we did for the rest of the numbers we wrote for this album and we all felt it had possibilities.". Lori Lieberman Lori Lieberman (born November 15, 1951) is an American singer-songwriter who accompanies herself on guitar and piano. She first came to public attention in the early 1970s with a series of albums on Capitol Records, one of which featured the first recording of "Killing Me Softly with His Song". After a long gap, she resumed her recording career in
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man who feels very sad and emotionally damaged ("I got dust for tears and I'm all tapped out") by a failed relationship ("tell me how it feels to be the one who turns the knife inside of me") and feels that there is a void in his life that cannot be filled ("there's a hole in my soul that's been killing me forever"). In concert, Steven Tyler has been known to substitute some lines with racier lyrics. On a live version of the song from the "A Little South of Sanity" album, Tyler sings "I fuck with my boots on
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reviews". However, on CinemaScore, audiences gave the film an average grade of "F" on an A+ to F scale. Peter Bradshaw of "The Guardian" gave 'Killing them Softly' 5 stars, saying the film is a "compelling comment on economic bloodletting in the real world". Tim Robey of "The Daily Telegraph" gave the film 4 stars describing it as "bleakly electrifying". "Total Film" awarded it 3 stars calling it "tough, stylish, violent and studded with stars" but countered that it "doesn’t quite get the job done". Killing Them Softly Killing Them Softly is a 2012 American neo-noir crime film directed by
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and peaked at number 36. The other, "Arianne", reached number 24 on that same chart in 1977 during a nine-week stay that began in the July 23 issue. William Ruhlmann of AllMusic described the place of this album within the Easy Listening genre in his review. "The early 1970s was a tough time for established ballad singers, but Johnny Mathis, who was younger than his peers and Columbia Records labelmates like Tony Bennett and Andy Williams, weathered the lean times better than most. Some of the reasons why are suggested in this 1973 album. It wasn't a big seller by
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14). Winner of several prizes : Hermann Ganz de la Société Suisse des Ecrivains, Unimuse (Belgium), Louise Labé (Paris), de la Ville de Lancy, Poncetton de la Société des Gens de Lettres de France (Paris). What critics have said about Jean-Pierre Vallotton's poetry: "With neither complaint nor joy – uncompromising words." "A perfect and elegant writing that softly sings about love." "His poetry book traces a need for deep communion, for transcendental essence, the light of which is a symbol closest to the absolute." "Profusion and sobriety converge in this pursuit of a learned language of poetry." "Here is poetry,
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kill Alice, but Adam appears in time and saves her. Furious, Deborah tries to kill him, stopped short by Alice, who shoots her with a flare pistol. Adam tells Alice that he and his sister used to come to the cabin together, but that he thought that if Alice just trusted him, then everything would be alright. Adam is led away by police that morning. Two years later, Alice and Adam see one another again on either side of an escalator - she's going down and he's riding up. They both watch each other as they pass without saying anything.
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Lori Lieberman Lori Lieberman (born November 15, 1951) is an American singer-songwriter who accompanies herself on guitar and piano. She first came to public attention in the early 1970s with a series of albums on Capitol Records, one of which featured the first recording of "Killing Me Softly with His Song". After a long gap, she resumed her recording career in the mid-1990s. Of Jewish background, Lieberman, the middle of three sisters, spent her childhood and adolescence travelling between California and Switzerland consequent to her father's career in chemical engineering. She attended Pine Manor College in her later years of
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helped him until, shortly after, he became calm, exhausted. Then, speaking softly and full of submissive abandonment, he said: "Well...but if it's not possible...let it be as you will my God!" This is the gist of his words, even though I may not remember them literally. I was very impressed by that submission to God, that extreme acceptance, so much that it was impossible for me not to compare it with that of Christ on the Cross, who asks imploring and ends with a wonderful submission to His Father's Will.The Doctors in charge almost immediately decided for a surgical operation.
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Skopje Fest with the song, "Kaži Koj Si Ti", losing to Karolina Gočeva, who went on to represent Republic of Macedonia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2007. Adrian Gaxha was a runner-up in the 2006 Macedonian Eurovision qualifier, having performed the song "Ljubov E" with Esma Redžepova. Vrčak, Tamara and Adrian have also taken some promotional photos of their Macedonian entry for the Eurovision Song Contest. "Vo ime na ljubovta" is an R&B-style song with several hip hop verses. Tamara sings about the person she loves, explaining that "without you every second is killing me slowly". She sings that "I
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shift. Josh nearly died in a landslide in season 15. Prior to this he has been stabbed and strangled, shot at, taken hostage and trapped in quicksand. He has also received a long-service medal from the Queen. At the end of "Killing Me Softly," (episode 15 from Season 21) Josh was stabbed in the left hand side of his neck in the back of an ambulance. He was still bleeding and his attacker closed the door on him when the episode ended. The attacker was a woman named Laura Merriman who appeared to be having a mental breakdown and seemed
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love". Kicking off with a reggae-ish beat, horns and drums, Knowles starts to chant the introductory lines, which also serves as the pre-chorus lines, "Oh, killing me softly and I'm still falling / Still the one I need, I will always be with you / Oh, you got me all gone, don't ever let me go / Say it real loud if you fly / If you leave me you're out of your mind", followed by the chorus lines, which is a literal count backwards where Knowles counts down the ways in which she loves her man, "My baby is
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and co-produced by Ed Newmark. In 2010, Fox published his memoirs, "Killing Me Softly: My Life in Music". "The Charles Fox Singers" was the credited name for the group vocalists who performed his compositions on television and movie themes and cues; they were actually The Ron Hicklin Singers. In total Fox has created film scores for over 100 films including: Charles Fox (composer) Charles Ira Fox (born October 30, 1940) is an American composer for film and television. His most heard compositions are probably the "love themes" (the sunshine pop musical backgrounds which accompanied every episode of the 1970s ABC-TV
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well-regarded for documenting the ways advertisements and the media shape women's perception of body and the standards they should hold themselves to, there has also been backlash in the way the series itself is delivered. In the 2006 article "Market Feminism: The Case for a Paradigm Shift" by Linda M. Scott, the "Killing Us Softly" series was criticized since the second entry, "Still Killing Us Softly" from 1987 was a near duplicate film from the 1979 original, so much so that she said "["Killing Us Softly"] was casually reissued in almost identical form as "Still Killing Us Softly". At the
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the world of fashion. Cambridge Documentary Films created two other films on this subject; the first is "Beyond Killing Us Softly: The Strength to Resist" (2000). That title was updated and released as "The Strength to Resist: Advertising's Impact on Women and Girls", featuring Gloria Steinem, Amy Richards, Gail Dines, Valerie Batts, Jamila Batts, Catherine Steiner Adair, and others. Killing Us Softly Killing Us Softly: Advertising's Image of Women is an American documentary by Margaret Lazarus, Renner Wunderlich, Patricia Stallone, and Joseph Vitagliano, based on a lecture by Jean Kilbourne and distributed by Cambridge Documentary Films, Inc. The documentary, first
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Britney Spears was something else—an inflection point in the culture". The music video is also referenced in the music video of Spears's 2000 single, "Stronger" where Spears sings, "My loneliness ain't killing me no more" - a reference to "...Baby One More Time" where she sings, "My loneliness is killing me." The music video is also referenced in the 2009 single, "If U Seek Amy". After she comes out of the house dressed as a housewife, her daughter is dressed with a similar schoolgirl outfit while wearing pink ribbons in her hair. The video was ranked at number four on
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it possible for me to try a number of things with [the song's arrangement]. I changed parts of the chord structure and chose to end on a major chord. [The song] wasn't written that way.". In actual fact the only chord changed by Flack was the chorus chord under "Fingers" which was changed from Major to Minor. Flack plays electric piano on the track. The bass is played by Ron Carter, the guitar by Hugh McCracken and the drums by Ray Lucas. The single appeared as the opening track of the album of the same name, issued in August 1973.
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The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia (Vicki Lawrence album) The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia is the 1973 debut album by Vicki Lawrence, recorded and released on Bell Records. It features the Billboard Hot 100 #1 pop hit in the U.S. and Canada, The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia", written by Bobby Russell. Another song, "He Did With Me," reached #1 in Australia. This album also features a few cover songs, such as Cher's "Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves", Roger Miller's "Little Green Apples" and Lori Lieberman's "Killing Me Softly with His Song". All songs
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Keys sings about being a brand new version of herself, where nobody has control of her mind, heart and soul. On her official website, the singer wrote: "Brand new me is about the journey it takes to get to a place where you are proud to be a new you." She sings over the soft piano melody: "It's , I'm not who I was before/You look surprised your words don't burn me anymore/Been meaning to tell ya, but I guess it's plain to see/Don't be mad, it's just a brand-new kinda me/Can't be bad, I've found a brand-new kinda free."
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when asked about it, said "I'm absolutely amazed. I've heard both Lori's and Roberta's version and I must say I'm very humbled about the whole thing. You can't help but feel that way about a song written and performed as well as this one is." Nevertheless, Fox repudiated Lieberman's role in the song's creation, saying: "We [Gimbel and Fox] wrote the song and [Lieberman] heard it and said it reminded her of how she felt at [a Don McLean] concert. Don McLean didn't inspire Norman or me to write the song but even Don McLean thinks he's the inspiration for
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contributing uncredited background vocals. Released on May 3, 1988 as a joint venture between Uptown Records and Warner Bros. Records, it was a huge success, having made it to #20 on the "Billboard" 200 and #1 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Chart (where it remained for seven weeks). Produced with his cousin Kyle West, five singles were released from the album, all of which made it to the Billboard singles charts: "Nite and Day," "Off on Your Own (Girl)," "Rescue Me," "If I'm Not Your Lover" and "Killing Me Softly." A French-language version of "Night and Day" ("Nuit et Jour")
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Peter Keough, from the "Boston Phoenix", praised Madonna's "stunning delivery" of the track. He wrote: "[Madonna] sings a softly lush soprano that captures Evita's quiet vulnerability. Her full-lipped, precise notes stride across the song's grandiose orchestrations. Webber's songs allow her all the room she needs to be many things; she succeeds at them all". A very positive review came from the "Hartford Courant"s Greg Morago, who called the song "a calculated, theatrical triumph of shameless pandering and steely determination that parallels the pop diva's own rise to the top. Madonna makes this song her own; she was born to play
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at his local church. When he was 13 years old, he participated in the video recording Van Son 9 with the song "Killing Me Softly with His Song". While in high school, he regularly participated in school musical productions, and in year 11, he became the first Asian student at his high school to become the Vice President of the student body. He received various awards, including the United States Achievement Academy, American Legion Award, and was one of 70 students at the school to take the International Baccalaureate. During this time, he also performed with Fantasy, a popular band
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Kashief Lindo Kashief Lindo is a Jamaican reggae singer. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Kashief is the son of guitarist and producer Willie Lindo. He moved with his family to Miami as a child. Kashief's first recording was produced by his father in 1992. He had a successful Jamaican single in 1993 with "Hard Times", based on the "Satta Massagana" rhythm, and recorded a popular version of "Killing Me Softly with His Song" in 1996. In 1999 he released the album "We Need Love", described in "The Rough Guide to Reggae" as "a lovely album of smooth romantic material sung in
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Adam raped her. Alice interviews her, posing as a journalist. Disturbed by the fact that she barely knows her new husband, she begins to go through their apartment, becoming even more alarmed when she searches a locked wardrobe and finds a box of old letters from an ex-lover, Adele, who insists she and Adam end their affair. Adam begins to question Alice more about her activities, including where she got a necklace that she received from his sister, Deborah. Soon after, Alice receives yet another warning. Following the trail, she discovers that Adele has been missing for eight months. She
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a performance at the Saban Theatre in Los Angeles, where she performed a duet of "Killing Me Softly" with the song's writer Charles Fox. In 2011, Yaso began dating the Israeli former child actor Eliad Nachom (played in "Shemesh"), who previously performed with her in a military band during their military service. He is now a popular singer. They have since broken up. Hagit Yaso Hagit Yaso (; born October 8, 1989) is an Israeli singer. She won the ninth season of "Kokhav Nolad", an Israeli television show, similar to "Pop Idol". Yaso is of Ethiopian Jewish descent. She was
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Come Softly to Me "Come Softly to Me" is a popular song written by Gretchen Christopher that was performed by The Fleetwoods, composed of Christopher, Barbara Ellis, and Gary Troxel. The original title was "Come Softly," but was changed en route to its becoming a hit. Bob Reisdorf, the owner of Dolphin Records, which in 1960 changed to Dolton Records, was responsible for the title change. He thought that "Come Softly" might be too obvious and considered risqué, so he had it changed to "Come Softly to Me." The title phrase never appears in the song's lyrics. Recording the song
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Come Softly to Me "Come Softly to Me" is a popular song written by Gretchen Christopher that was performed by The Fleetwoods, composed of Christopher, Barbara Ellis, and Gary Troxel. The original title was "Come Softly," but was changed en route to its becoming a hit. Bob Reisdorf, the owner of Dolphin Records, which in 1960 changed to Dolton Records, was responsible for the title change. He thought that "Come Softly" might be too obvious and considered risqué, so he had it changed to "Come Softly to Me." The title phrase never appears in the song's lyrics. Recording the song
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the song." McLean supported Lieberman, both on his website and from the stage of a concert which he invited her to attend in 2010. However, the matter only reached an unequivocal conclusion when contemporaneous articles from the early 1970s were retrieved, all of which vindicated Lieberman. In an April 5, 1973 article in the "New York Daily News", Gimbel was quoted as follows: "She [Lori Lieberman] told us about this strong experience she had listening to McLean ('I felt all flushed with fever / Embarrassed by the crowd / I felt he had found my letters / And read each
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the original working method they were reported to have established with Lieberman at the outset of her career, namely that Lieberman's own writing was the essential material from which their songs grew. This dispute has specifically focused on "Killing Me Softly With His Song", which had hitherto been said to have sprung from a poem written by Lieberman following her attendance at a Don McLean concert. Both Gimbel and Fox asserted in print that Lieberman had had no involvement in the creation of the song. Don McLean supported Lieberman both on his website and from the stage of a concert
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is, and at the end—if we were lucky — we were allowed to play a mellow song like Killing Me Softly or Ain't No Sunshine. But never rock." In May 1976, Natasha Shneider, her husband Kapustin, and her brother Vladimir defected to the West, arriving in New York City without finances or connections. They took day jobs and played evening gigs around the city. In 1978 they arrived in Hollywood where they met Guy Costa, the head of Motown's Studio Operations, who introduced them to Berry Gordy, founder of Motown records. As a consequence of the meeting with Gordy they
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and "Killing Me Softly". Both were # 1 hits on the pop charts and she became the first artist and the only female artist to win back to back Grammy Awards for Record of the Year. Stevie Wonder who topped the charts five times during the decade with songs such as "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" and "Sir Duke" had a unique treble. He won Grammy Awards for both best male Pop and R & B vocal performance in 1974, 1975, and 1977. The Jackson 5 became one of the biggest pop-music phenomena of the 1970s, playing from
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The Best of Bobby Vinton (1985 album) The Best of Bobby Vinton is a 12-track collection of previously recorded songs by Bobby Vinton; it was released in 1985. This collection contains three songs that Vinton recorded for ABC Records ("Killing Me Softly With Her Song", "My Melody of Love", and "My Special Angel"), six for Epic Records ("Roses Are Red (My Love)", "Mr. Lonely", "Blue Velvet", "There! I've Said It Again", "Blue on Blue", and "I Love How You Love Me"), and one for the Canadian label of Ahed Records ("Medley"). The last two songs, "Will You Still Love Me
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also had good things to say. "If you believe in masterpieces, then this LP qualifies." Already aware of the plans for his subsequent album, "I'm Coming Home", which focused on new material, the magazine prematurely declared this as the end of his cover album phase. "Although Mathis is now on a path to record original songs, this last in his series of covering tunes is a totally rewarding listening experience." (Mathis would continue to record albums that included a varying number of current hit songs by other artists until the late 1970s.) The magazine was quite impressed with this project.
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4 minutes and 22 seconds. William Defebaugh of "V Magazine" described it as "stripped down and raw". Lyrically, "Crowded Places" talks about social anxiety and a relationship gone wrong because of this. The song begins with Banks singing softly "Hey, Hey, Hey". During the chorus, she sings, "Cause I've been scared of crowded places/ Come with me, I'll take you home". Matthew Scott Donnelly of "PopCrush" described the song as "a quiet, moving lullaby". For Laurence Day of "The Line of Best Fit", the song is "darkly euphoric". William Defebaugh "V Magazine" said that "Crowded Places" listens as of an
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of May 2018, the video had more than 4 million views on Blim Record's official YouTube account. The concept for the music video is really simple and Aurea said she wanted to go simple with it. The video begins with Aurea looking depressed and locked in her own home, drinking coffee and thinking about her boyfriend. Than, we can see Aurea singing in a night club, while her voice is softly driven by a piano. While this is happening, the video shows images of Aurea at her home at the same time. Than, when she sings the line "I tried
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tenses, and declensions; but without any order. The professor then desired me “to observe; for he was going to set his engine at work.” The pupils, at his command, took each of them hold of an iron handle, whereof there were forty fixed round the edges of the frame; and giving them a sudden turn, the whole disposition of the words was entirely changed. He then commanded six-and-thirty of the lads, to read the several lines softly, as they appeared upon the frame; and where they found three or four words together that might make part of a sentence, they
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The recording was made for the soundtrack of the obscure prison film "Unchained", in which Duncan also played a minor character. Following Duncan's version, the song went on to become one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century. In his final interview, Todd Duncan spoke of his love for spirituals: "... spirituals are so deep inside of me, it's difficult for me to find words that are meaningful. Spirituals are a part of whatever I am. When I sing them my being sings them, not my throat... It is very difficult for me to put into words something
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It's Not Killing Me It's Not Killing Me is the debut solo album by American blues guitarist Mike Bloomfield. It was released in 1969. Following his success with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, The Electric Flag, and in the "Super Session" recordings with Al Kooper, Bloomfield teamed up with former colleagues to record this largely self-written album. AllMusic criticized its "lack of a powerful vocalist" and the under-use of Bloomfield's guitar, going so far as to say "it makes about as much sense as Led Zeppelin having Jimmy Page sing lead while Robert Plant played tambourine!" All tracks have words
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Saint Paul has worked with many notable talents in the music industry. Her songs "Non preoccuparti" and "Adesso ricomincerei" were produced and arranged by American producer Quincy Jones and recorded by an orchestra of Italian musicians, including Pino Presti on electric bass, Angel Pocho Gatti and Victor Bacchetta at the piano, and Tullio De Piscopo on drums, in 1973. In the same year she released an Italian cover version of "Killing Me Softly with His Song", originally composed by Charles Fox and Norman Gimbel, titled "Mi fa morir cantando". Lara Saint Paul has worked and performed with notables such as
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Norman Gimbel Norman Gimbel (born November 16, 1927) is an American lyricist of popular songs, television and movie themes whose writing career includes such titles as "Sway", "Canadian Sunset", "Summer Samba", "The Girl from Ipanema", "Killing Me Softly with His Song", "Meditation", and "I Will Wait for You", along with an Oscar for "It Goes Like It Goes" - from the film "Norma Rae". He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1984. A native of Brooklyn, son of businessman Morris Gimbel and Lottie Gimbel, Norman Gimbel was self-taught in music and following initial employment with music publisher
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"The Voice". In an episode broadcast on March 6, 2018, she performed "Killing Me Softly with His Song", with Alicia Keys turning her chair. In the Battles Round broadcast on March 19, 2018, she was confronted with Team Alicia teammate Johnny Bliss both singing "Versace on the Floor" from Bruno Mars. Alicia Keys opted for Bliss and Megan Lee was eliminated from the competition. Megan is most likely known for her covers of songs which she posts onto YouTube. Among the songs she has covered that have received significant views include a cover of Christina Aguilera's "I Will Be", Bruno
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Charles Fox (composer) Charles Ira Fox (born October 30, 1940) is an American composer for film and television. His most heard compositions are probably the "love themes" (the sunshine pop musical backgrounds which accompanied every episode of the 1970s ABC-TV show "Love, American Style"); the theme song for the late 1970s ABC series "The Love Boat"; and the dramatic theme music to ABC's "Wide World of Sports" and the original "Monday Night Football"; as well as his (and Norman Gimbel's) Grammy-winning hit song "Killing Me Softly With His Song". Fox was born in New York City, the son of Mollie
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Pilling Them Softly "Pilling Them Softly" is the first episode of the fourteenth season of the animated sitcom "Family Guy", and the 250th episode overall. It aired on Fox in the United States on September 27, 2015, and is written by Hayes Davenport and directed by Jerry Langford. The title is a play on the 2012 film "Killing Them Softly". Lois is informed by Stewie's teacher Miss Tammy that he has an attention problem. She takes him to Dr. Hartman, who promptly gives him a prescription to treat ADHD. When he takes the pills, he becomes totally calm. Brian is
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