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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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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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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 also 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. In an April 5, 1973, article in the "New York Daily News", Norman Gimbel was quoted as follows: "She [Lori Lieberman] told us about this strong experience she had listening to McLean ("I felt all flushed
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attention for their cover versions of old favorites, with the group's reinterpretations of "No Woman No Cry" by Bob Marley & the Wailers and "Killing Me Softly with His Song" (first recorded by Lori Lieberman in 1971, remade by Roberta Flack in 1973), the latter being their biggest hit. The album also included a re-interpretation of The Delfonics' "Ready or Not Here I Come (Can't Hide From Love)" in their hit single, "Ready or Not", which featured a prominent sample of Enya's "Boadicea" without the singer's permission. This prompted a lawsuit resulting in a settlement where Enya was given credit
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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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her first and second albums, "Killing Me Softly With His Song", a track from Lieberman's debut, was recorded by Roberta Flack - becoming a US #1 and international hit and rapidly overshadowing Lieberman's own, more understated original which had until that point been gaining traction on radio. Undeterred, Lieberman returned in 1973 with "Becoming", her first album to achieve a placing on the Billboard Top 200. Two more Lori Lieberman albums, "A Piece of Time" (1974) and "Straw Colored Girl" (1975), appeared on Capitol Records and secured her followings both in America and continental Europe that were to prove remarkably
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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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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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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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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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in 1973. In 1983, she recorded the end music to the Dirty Harry film "Sudden Impact" at Eastwood's request. In 1972, Flack began recording regularly with Donny Hathaway, scoring hits such as the Grammy-winning "Where Is the Love" (1972) and later "The Closer I Get to You" (1978) – both million-selling gold singles. Flack and Hathaway recorded several duets together, including two LPs, until Hathaway's 1979 death. On her own, Flack scored her second #1 hit in 1973, "Killing Me Softly with His Song" written by Charles Fox and Norman Gimbel, and originally performed by Lori Lieberman. It was awarded
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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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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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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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original writers refused permission for the rewrite of their song, but did allow the Fugees to do a cover version. In 1997, "Killing Me Softly" won the Fugees a Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by Duo or group. The third and final single released for the album was "Ready or Not", released September 2, 1996. In the US the song was the least successful of all the singles from the album, only peaking at number 34 on the Rhythmic Top 40 chart. It found far more success in Europe, especially in the UK where it became their second number
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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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that sample.'" They then added a bass reggae drop. Initially, the Fugees wanted to change the lyrics of the song to make it anti-drugs and anti-poverty but the songwriters, Norman Gimbel and Charles Fox, refused. The Fugees' version features "percussive rhythms" with "a synth sitar sound, Wyclef's blurted chants, Hill's vocal melisma on the scatted bridge, and a bombastic drum-loop track". In January 1997, "Spin" called the song "an instant classic, pumped out of every passing car from coast to coast, with Lauryn Hill's timeless voice never losing its poignant kick". Celebrating the album's 20th anniversary in February 2016, "Billboard"
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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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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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their debut album "People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm". ATCQ themselves had sampled the riff from the song "Memory Band" from psychedelic soul band Rotary Connection's 1967 eponymous debut album. The Fugees single was so successful that the track was "deleted" and thus no longer supplied to retailers whilst the track was still in the top 20 so that attention could be drawn to the next single, "Ready or Not". Propelled by the success of the Fugees track, the 1972 recording by Roberta Flack was remixed in 1996 with the vocalist adding some new vocal flourishes: this version
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becoming their second chart-topping single of 1996 in Britain, following "Killing Me Softly". Enya was prepared to sue the group for copyright infringement, because she had not permitted the group to sample "Boadicea". She eventually settled out of court. Barack Obama listed this as his favorite song. The song is used in the first theatrical trailer of the film "". The song contains a sample of "Boadicea" by Enya from her first solo album, "Enya" (1987). Enya considered suing the Fugees: "We were actually on the verge of suing them because of the copyright infringement, because they just didn't approach
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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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and royalties for her sample. The Fugees have continuously thanked and praised Enya for her deep understanding of the situation, for example in the liner notes for "The Score". The Fugees won two 1997 Grammy Awards with "The Score" (Best Rap Album) and "Killing Me Softly" (Best R&B Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group). In 1997, the Fugees all began solo projects: Hill started work on her critically acclaimed "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill"; Jean began producing for a number of artists (including Canibus, Destiny's Child and Carlos Santana) and recorded his debut album "The Carnival"; Pras, with Mýa
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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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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" peaked at number one in the UK and at number three in Sweden. "No Woman, No Cry" – a cover of the Bob Marley & The Wailers song of the same name – topped the singles chart in New Zealand. Fugees collaborated with singer Bounty Killer on the single "Hip-Hopera" and recorded the single "Rumble in the Jungle" for the soundtrack to the film "When We Were Kings" in 1997:
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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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Score" paints the ghetto as a mythical landscape, one that can inspire pride as well as sorrow. Like Wu-Tang Clan, the Fugees view the world as their movie, complete with stunts and special effects." Jon Pareles of "The New York Times" found the group's "vision of ghetto life" both eccentric and realistic, although he felt "Killing Me Softly" sounds "out of place amid the hard-nosed surrealism". Notes Sample credits !scope="row"|Worldwide (IFPI) "The Score" earned the Fugees two Grammy Awards in 1996. The Score (Fugees album) The Score is the second and final studio album by the hip hop trio Fugees,
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"American Idol" audition, she sang a cover of Fergie's "Big Girls Don't Cry", and for the women's Hollywood rounds she sang "Killing Me Softly with His Song" by The Fugees. She was eliminated from "American Idol" in the Hollywood group rounds. Victoria Acosta Victoria Acosta (born 1992) is a versatile singer from San Antonio, Texas, most known for the song "Could This Be Love" and as a 2013 contestant on "American Idol". Acosta was born in Houston and raised in San Antonio. Her parents, Ruben and Josie Acosta, enrolled her in a mariachi music school at age 6. She later
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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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Fugees Fugees (sometimes The Fugees; formerly Tranzlator Crew) was an American hip hop group who rose to fame in the early 1990s. Their repertoire included elements of hip hop, soul and Caribbean music, particularly reggae. The members of the group were rapper/singer/producer Wyclef Jean, rapper/singer/producer Lauryn Hill, and rapper/producer Pras Michel. Deriving their name from a shortening of the word "refugees", Jean and Michel are Haitian, while Hill is American. Before disbanding in 1997, the group recorded two albums, one of which, "The Score" (1996), was a multi-Platinum and Grammy-winning success and contains their hit single "Killing Me Softly". Hill
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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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Young, "Easy" by Faith No More, "Have You Seen Her" by MC Hammer, "Emotion" by the Bee Gees, "Killing Me Softly with His Song" by Fugees, "Love Rollercoaster" by Red Hot Chili Peppers, and "It Only Takes a Minute" by Take That. Samples of 1970s songs were also used in hip-hop songs in the 1990s (and 2000s), most notably in the 1990s hip-hop genre G-funk and in songs such as "Gangsta's Paradise" by Coolio. The late 1990s began the 1980s revival, which grew into the 2000s. The 1980s-themed films "Grosse Pointe Blank", "The Wedding Singer", "Boogie Nights" (the second part
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Kweli, Common, Big Daddy Kane, Dead Prez, Cody ChesnuTT and John Legend. Their performance received several positive reviews, many of which praised Hill's near a cappella rendition of "Killing Me Softly". The Fugees would make their first televised appearance in almost ten years at BET's 2005 Music Awards on June 28, opening the show with a twelve-minute set. With a new album announced to be in the works, one track, "Take It Easy", was leaked online and eventually released as an Internet single on September 27, 2005. It peaked at number 40 on the "Billboard" R&B Chart but was met
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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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In addition to the video, Hill began selling autographed posters and Polaroids through her website, with some items listed at upwards of $500. For the first time since 1997, the Fugees performed in September 2004 at "Dave Chappelle's Block Party" in the Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. The concert featured Hill's nearly a cappella rendition of "Killing Me Softly". The event was recorded by director Michel Gondry and was released on March 3, 2006, to universal acclaim. The Fugees also appeared at BET Awards 2005 during June 2005, where they opened the show with a 12-minute set. One track, "Take It
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performance at the Miami Beach Centennial Concert on 25 March 2015. At the concert, and before being joined on stage by Wyclef Jean, Fantine performed a cover of Compay Segundo’s "Chan Chan," paying tribute to Miami Beach’s Cuban community, as well as her hit single, "Reservation for Two." She then performed a rendition of The Fugees’ "Killing Me Softly" alongside Wyclef Jean. Soon after her performance, Fantine announced on her social media pages that her new song, "What A Day," included co-production by Emilio Estefan and also featured Dominican reggaeton singer El Cata. In June 2015, Fantine released her new
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Winners are in bold text. The Smashing Pumpkins – "Tonight, Tonight" Beck – "Where It's At" Alanis Morissette – "Ironic" Foo Fighters – "Big Me" Alanis Morissette – "Ironic" Metallica – "Until It Sleeps" The Fugees – "Killing Me Softly" Coolio (featuring L.V.) – "Gangsta's Paradise" Coolio – "1, 2, 3, 4 (Sumpin' New)" The Smashing Pumpkins – "1979" Coolio (featuring L.V.) – "Gangsta's Paradise" (from "Dangerous Minds") The Smashing Pumpkins – "Tonight, Tonight" The Smashing Pumpkins – "Tonight, Tonight" (Directors: Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris) Björk – "It's Oh So Quiet" (Choreographer: Michael Rooney) The Smashing Pumpkins – "Tonight,
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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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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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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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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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'I Will Survive' by Gloria Gaynor. Her performance wowed the judges and her studio version charted at number 16 on the UK Singles Chart with just 24 hours of sales, selling 19,213 copies of the track between Friday evening and the close of the chart week on Saturday night. A week later it climbs to number 8. McFall performed the Fugees' version of Killing Me Softly in the semi-final on 15 June 2013. The result was revealed later on during the broadcast that McFall had received the most public votes and would therefore represent Team Will in the final and
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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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it was the home of an anti-drug agency. It was also used around this time as the location shoot for The Fugees video "Killing me Softly". In 1998, the theatre was renovated into a 499-seat playhouse to present Off Broadway theatrical productions, the largest in the city. In 1999, the Roundabout Theater Company premiered plays by contemporary writers such as Brian Friel, Paula Vogel, Beth Henley, and Harold Pinter. Performances included Charles Randolph-Wright's play with music, "Blue" starring Phylicia Rashad; Martin McDonagh's "A Skull in Connemara"; "Speaking in Tongues" with Karen Allen; and Richard Greenberg's "The Dazzle". In 2002, Roundabout
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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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chart, it spent two weeks at number one in March of that year. Murray's version also earned her a Grammy Award nomination in the category Best Female Pop Vocal performance at the Grammy Awards of 1974, losing out to "Killing Me Softly with His Song" by Roberta Flack. Murray stated that she loved the original version, but the song took on a deeper meaning for her after the birth of her first child a few years later. In an interview, she stated that "Whenever I was singing that song, it was very meaningful." Murray covered the song a second time
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well received in both Italy and Spain, followed by a remake of Roberta Flack's "Killing Me Softly", which had also been remade by the Fugees. This track became one of Sangwara's most well known and was made into a music video. This was followed by a release called "Bohemian Rhapsody", a cover of Queen's classic, also remade by The Braids. This release wasn't such a big hit for them and is now hard to find as a result. In early 1997 they produced their fourth release and final cover, a remake of No Doubt's "Don't Speak". This became Sangwara's biggest
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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century by going retro. Many of these songs are as follows: "U Can't Touch This" by MC Hammer; "Ice Ice Baby" by Vanilla Ice; "Jump Around" by House of Pain; "Mo Money Mo Problems" and "Big Poppa" by Notorious B.I.G.; "It Was a Good Day" by Ice Cube; "Regulate" by Warren G and Nate Dogg; "I'll Be Missing You" by Puff Daddy featuring Faith Evans and 112; "Ain't No Nigga" by Jay-Z featuring Foxy Brown; "Killing Me Softly" by The Fugees; "Feel So Good" by Mase; "Hey Lover" by Boyz II Men featuring LL Cool J; "C.R.E.A.M." by Wu-Tang Clan;
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"Billboard" 200, and was later certified six-times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).And sold 22 million copies worldwide. It also performed well in several overseas territories, topping the Austrian, Canadian, French, German and Swiss albums charts, whilst also peaking at number two in Sweden and the United Kingdom. Four commercially successful singles were released 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"
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do that song again live until you record it. Released in January 1973, Flack's version spent a total of five non-consecutive weeks at #1 in February and March, more weeks than any other record in 1973, being bumped to number 2 by the O'Jays' "Love Train" after four straight weeks atop the "Billboard" Hot 100. "Billboard" ranked it as the No. 3 song for 1973. Charles Fox suggested that Flack's version was more successful than Lieberman's because Flack's "version was faster and she gave it a strong backbeat that wasn't in the original". According to Flack: "My classical background made
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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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as Omega, John Forté, and Diamond D. Most versions of the album feature four bonus tracks, including three remixes of "Fu-Gee-La", and a short acoustic Wyclef Jean solo track entitled "Mista Mista". Upon its release, "The Score" was a commercial success, peaking at the number one spot on both the "Billboard" 200, and the Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums chart (it was a number-one album on the latter in 1996 on the year-end chart). The singles "Killing Me Softly", "Fu-Gee-La", and "Ready or Not" also achieved notable chart success, and helped the group achieve worldwide recognition. On October 3, 1997, "The
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for Skitch Henderson and The Tonight Show Orchestra. Fox worked under the banner of Bob Israel's Score Productions where he composed the themes for several Goodson-Todman game shows including NBC's version of the "Match Game," the syndicated versions of "What's My Line?," and "To Tell The Truth," whose lyrics were written by Goodson-Todman director Paul Alter. He co-composed the theme song and all the original scores for "Love, American Style," along with Arnold Margolin. Fox also composed the music for "Killing Me Softly with His Song," featuring lyrics by Norman Gimbel, in 1972. It became an international #1 hit for
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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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released to VH1 on October 2, 1995. "I Want You" received a nomination for "MTV Amour" at the MTV Europe Music Awards 1996, but lost to The Fugees's "Killing Me Softly". Julian Hirsh did several mixes of the track, while rare promos featuring nearly a dozen slightly altered versions of the original song exist. The video was commercially released in 2009 on "". I Want You (Marvin Gaye song) "I Want You" is a song written by songwriters Leon Ware and Arthur "T-Boy" Ross and performed by singer Marvin Gaye. It was released as a single in 1976 on his
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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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and discarded for among other reasons, veto from the original artists and "lyrics too on the nose". Carla Gugino revealed in August 2009 that she had begun taking singing lessons for her part in the film. One month later, Jamie Chung announced in an interview with E! Entertainment that recording for the soundtrack had begun. When Emily Browning auditioned for her role as Babydoll, Snyder asked her to sing because of the musical element in the film. He told her to record herself while singing, and the actress did a version of "Killing Me Softly with His Song". Browning later
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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one out loud / I prayed that he would finish / But he just kept right on'). I had a notion this might 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." When Dan MacIntosh (Songfacts) spoke with Charles Fox in 2010, he refuted this story: "I think it's called an urban legend. It really didn't happen that way. Norman Gimbel and I wrote that song for a young artist
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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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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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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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1973 solo single, "Killing Me Softly with His Song". Originally set as a solo-single, Flack's manager, David Franklin, suggested a duet with Hathaway, which resulted in the finished work. "The Closer I Get to You" spent two weeks as number one on the Hot Soul Singles chart in April 1978, and peaked at number two on the "Billboard" Hot 100 behind Yvonne Elliman's "If I Can't Have You" and Wings' "With a Little Luck". The song charted in the top ten spots for fourteen weeks in Canada and one week in France. It was eventually certified gold in the United
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"4 in the Morning" based on a tape of melodies left from working on Stefani's debut album "Love. Angel. Music. Baby." (2004). In a webisode detailing the recording process of the album, Stefani stated that she was inspired by ballads such as Roberta Flack's "Killing Me Softly with His Song" and Billy Idol's "Eyes Without a Face", as she wanted a "nice ballad" on the record. It was one of the last songs recorded for the album, with Stefani citing it as one of her favorite songs on "The Sweet Escape", because it "brings pleasure to [her] ears." The song
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for 19 weeks, becoming one of her biggest and most well-known hits. It also performed well in the US, becoming her only single to make three different charts: No. 48 on the "Billboard" Hot 100, No. 8 on the Adult Contemporary Chart, and No. 67 on the R&B Chart. Also included were covers of contemporary hits such as "Baby I'm-a Want You", "Killing Me Softly with His Song" and "No Regrets" - the latter sharing the title with another song Bassey had recorded and released in the 1960s. Closing track, "Make the World a Little Younger" was released as the
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Dick Clark in 1973. Flack has received one award from six nominations. Sarah Bryan and Beverly Patterson, "African American Trails of Eastern North Carolina", North Carolina Arts Council, 2013, p. 92 Roberta Flack, 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
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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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of "All That She Wants", "Killing Me Softly with His Song" and "Empire State of Mind (Part II) Broken Down". She ultimately became one of the four finalists in the first season of the show but she and the other two contestants lost to Ivy Quainoo, Sanders coming in the second. Kim Sanders Kim Sanders (born October 24, 1968 in East Chicago, Indiana) is an American singer and songwriter based in Germany. Sanders began to release singles as a solo artist in 1994 and wrote songs for other musicians. In 1993 and 1994 she released three of her singles, "Show
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was made famous by the 1972 film "Deliverance," which also led to a successful lawsuit by the song's composer, as it was used in the film without Smith's permission. The film version was arranged and recorded by Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandell, but only credited to Weissberg on a single subsequently issued in December 1972. It went to #2 for four weeks on the "Billboard" Hot 100 in 1973, all four weeks behind Roberta Flack's "Killing Me Softly with His Song," and topped the adult contemporary chart for two weeks the same year. It reached #1 for one week on
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music was composed by Charles Fox. Gimbel and Fox were also the songwriters of "Killing Me Softly with His Song" and the theme songs to films and programs such as "Last American Hero" ("I Got A Name," sung by Jim Croce), "Happy Days," "Laverne and Shirley," and "The New Adventures of Wonder Woman." A cover of the Bugaloos theme performed by Collective Soul is included on the 1995 tribute album "," produced by Ralph Sall for MCA Records. The Bugaloos released an album in 1970 (Capitol Records ST-621), featuring studio-recorded versions of some of the songs performed on the show.
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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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