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1971 song by Lori Lieberman

"Killing Me Softly with His Vocal"
Lieberman - Killing Me Softly - 1972 single.jpg

Promotional 7-inch unmarried, stereo version
Single by Lori Lieberman
Released 1972
Recorded 1971
Genre Folk
Length 3:46
Characterization Capitol
Songwriter(s)
  • Charles Fox
  • Norman Gimbel
  • Lori Lieberman (uncredited)[ane] [2]
Producer(s) Fox and Gimbel

"Killing Me Softly with His Song" is a vocal composed by Charles Fob with lyrics past Norman Gimbel. The lyrics were written in collaboration with Lori Lieberman later she was inspired by a Don McLean performance in tardily 1971. Denied writing credit by Fox and Gimbel, Lieberman released her version of the song in 1972, just it did not chart. The vocal has been covered by many other artists.

In 1973 it became a number-ane striking in the The states, Australia and Canada for Roberta Flack, and too reached number six in the United kingdom Singles Chart. In 1996, Fugees recorded the song with Lauryn Colina on atomic number 82 vocals, their version became a number-one hit in twenty countries. The version past Flack won the 1974 Grammy for Record of the Twelvemonth and Best Female Popular Vocal Functioning, and the version by Fugees won the 1997 Grammy for Best R&B Functioning by a Duo or Group with Vocal. Propelled by the success of the Fugees track, the 1972 recording by Roberta Flack was remixed in 1996 by Jonathan Peters, with Flack adding some new song flourishes; this version topped the Hot Trip the light fantastic Club Play nautical chart.[3] Since and then, Flack and Fugees have performed the song together.[4] The versions by the Fugees and Roberta Flack were both placed on the 2021 revised list of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Fourth dimension.[5]

After decades of confirming Lieberman's contribution, Fob and Gimbel changed their story well-nigh the song's origins to downplay her role. Gimbel threatened McLean with a lawsuit in 2008, demanding he remove from his website an assertion that McLean was the inspiration for "Killing Me Softly," but McLean responded by showing Gimbel his ain words confirming the inspiration, published in 1973.

Lori Lieberman version [edit]

Aspiring musician Lori Lieberman was 19 years onetime in 1971 when she was introduced to veteran songwriter Norman Gimbel and composer Charles Play tricks; the two men signed her to a management contract in which they would write her songs and manage her career, and take 20% of her income.[ane] The three shared a common Jewish heritage and Scorpio astrological signs, and they began to puddle songwriting ideas.[two] Gimbel likewise began an affair with Lieberman, even though he was 24 years older and married. They kept the affair a secret for years.[ane]

In November 1971, Lieberman, at present 20, went out with her friend Michele Willens to see Don McLean perform at the Troubadour nightclub in Los Angeles.[one] McLean's hit vocal "American Pie" was rising in the charts, just Lieberman was strongly affected by McLean singing some other vocal: "Empty Chairs".[6] [7] This song spurred her to write poetic notes on a newspaper napkin while he was performing the song.[8] Willens confirms that Lieberman was "scribbling notes" on a napkin as soon equally McLean began singing the vocal. Afterward the concert, Lieberman phoned Gimbel to read him her napkin notes and share her feel of a vocalist reaching deep within her world with his song.[1] Lieberman's description reminded Gimbel of a vocal title that was already in his idea notebook, the title "killing us softly with some blues".[ix] Gimbel expanded on Lieberman's notes, fleshing them out into song lyrics. Gimbel said in 1973 that "Her conversation fed me, inspired me, gave me some language and a choice of words."[one] Gimbel passed these lyrics to Pull a fast one on, who set them to music.[2]

Lieberman recorded the song in late 1971 and released it as a single in 1972, produced by Gimbel and Fox. This version did not chart. Lieberman promoted the album past touring, and she e'er introduced the song "Killing Me Softly" by describing its origin in the McLean performance. Gimbel and Fob fifty-fifty wrote out for her this introduction of the song so that she could deliver it consistently at each functioning. In 1973 in her start appearance on national goggle box, Lieberman described this same origin story on The Mike Douglas Show after performing the song.[1] When Lieberman toured through Canada in 1974 to promote her 2d album, Billboard magazine carried a public relations piece from Capitol Records about the 3-style "vocal-producing squad" of Lieberman/Gimbel/Play tricks, including a description of the Don McLean performance inspiring the song "Killing Me Softly". Gimbel was quoted saying that he relied on Lieberman to inspire his songwriting creativity since he had passed the nearly artistic days of his youth: "At present I need a reason to write, and Lori is i of the best reasons a lyricwriter could have."[2]

Don McLean said in 1973 that he was surprised to find out that the song described his singing. "I'g admittedly amazed. I've heard both Lori'south and Roberta's version and I must say I'm very humbled about the whole thing. Y'all can't help but experience that way about a vocal written and performed as well every bit this ane is."[ten]

Disputed origin [edit]

In the 1970s both Gimbel and Fox were in understanding with Lieberman about the song's origin at a McLean concert. Sean Derek, who worked for Gimbel and Fob as an assistant in the 1970s, confirmed that the two men would tell the McLean origin story "all the time".[1] However, Gimbel and Fox changed their stories around 1997, to reduce or dismiss Lieberman's contribution.

In 1976, the Lieberman/Gimbel/Fox songwriting team turned sour. Gimbel had divorced his wife 3 years earlier, but Lieberman eventually stopped the sexual human relationship she had with Gimbel because he "had get emotionally calumniating, decision-making and unfaithful." She asked to be freed of her contract. Gimbel and Fox directed their lawyers to demand $27,000 from Lieberman to pay expenses, and to demand another $250,000 of her future income. Lieberman's lawyer, Frederic Ansis, recalled later that Gimbel and Fox could have been "nice guys" like other managers in the industry who released their unsuccessful artists, just they chose the other road.[ane]

By 1997, Lieberman had long severed her ties to Gimbel, but she reconnected with Pull a fast one on, who attended a concert of hers.[1] Lieberman was interviewed past The New York Times about her recent songwriting work. In this interview she said that when she was young, Gimbel and Play a joke on had been "very, very controlling. I felt similar I was pushed on phase, and I was singing other people's material, although that material was based on my individual diaries. I felt victimized for almost of my early career."[11] Fob never spoke to her again later on this revelation.[i]

In 2008, Gimbel demanded that McLean remove text from his website, the text maxim that McLean was the inspiration for "Killing Me Softly". McLean did not remove the text; instead, McLean'south lawyer sent Gimbel a copy of a 1973 New York Daily News article in which Gimbel is quoted and seems to concord with Lieberman'south account.[12] In the article, Lieberman is asked how the vocal came about and what its inspiration was.[ten]

Don McLean ... I saw him at the Troubadour in LA last yr. I had heard about him from some friends just upwardly to then all I knew most him really was what others had told me. But I was moved by his functioning, past the way he developed his numbers, he got right through to me.[ten]

Gimbel'south contribution supports Lieberman's stance:

Lori is only 20 and she really is a very private person ... She told u.s. almost this strong experience she had listening to McLean ... I had a notion this might brand a good song then the three of u.s.a. discussed it. We talked it over several times, just every bit we did with the rest of the numbers we wrote for the album and we all felt it had possibilities.[10]

Lieberman and then adds:

Norman had a phrase he liked, 'killing me softly with his blues' ... Simply I didn't feel the word "blues" was quite what the effect was. It wasn't gimmicky enough, somehow. We talked about it a while and finally decided on the word "song" instead. It seemed right then when nosotros did information technology.[x]

Fox published a memoir in 2010, Killing Me Softly, My Life in Music, which independent goose egg about the McLean operation inspiring the song, and downplayed Lieberman's role in the songwriting team.[1] When Dan MacIntosh of Songfacts asked Fox in 2010 almost the McLean origin story, Fox said, "I recollect information technology's called an urban legend. Information technology really didn't happen that way." He described Gimbel and himself writing the vocal, then playing it for Lieberman afterwards, who was reminded of McLean'south singing. Play tricks said that "somehow the words got inverse around so that we wrote it based on Don McLean..."[thirteen]

Gimbel described in 2010 how he had been introduced to the Argentinian-built-in composer Lalo Schifrin (and then of Mission: Incommunicable fame) and began writing songs to a number of Schifrin'south films.[9] Both Gimbel and Schifrin fabricated a suggestion to write a Broadway musical together, and Schifrin gave Gimbel an Argentinean novel—Hopscotch past Julio Cortázar—to read as a possible thought. The book was never made into a musical, but in affiliate two, the narrator describes himself equally sitting in a bar listening to an American pianist friend "kill usa softly with some blues".[9] [14] Gimbel put the phrase in his notebook of vocal ideas for utilise at a futurity time.[15]

Lieberman released a song in 2011 called "Loving cup of Girl" with lyrics about being used by someone who would "rifle through her diary" to write songs about her, who was dishonest, promiscuous and took advantage of her. Lieberman says that Gimbel contacted her after the vocal was published, sending angry emails, just Lieberman deleted the emails instead of responding to them.[i] Gimbel died in 2018.

In 2020, Lieberman said she was not seeking coin or official songwriting credit, she just wanted the earth to know the correct origin of the song.[1]

Roberta Flack version [edit]

"Killing Me Softly with His Song"
Killing Me Softly with His Song by Roberta Flack US vinyl.png

I of A-side labels of U.South. vinyl unmarried
Single by Roberta Flack
from the album Killing Me Softly
B-side "Just Like a Woman"
Released Jan 22, 1973[16]
Recorded November 17, 1972
Studio Atlantic, New York Urban center[17]
Genre Soul
Length iv:46
Label Atlantic
Songwriter(s)
  • Charles Flim-flam
  • Norman Gimbel
  • Lori Lieberman (uncredited)[1] [2]
Producer(due south) Joel Dorn
Roberta Flack singles chronology
"Where Is the Beloved"
(1972) 		"Killing Me Softly with His Song"
(1973) 		"Jesse"
(1973)
Alternative release
German single picture sleeve

German single picture sleeve
Audio
"Killing Me Softly with His Vocal" on YouTube

Lieberman was the first to record the song in late 1971, releasing it in early 1972.[eighteen] Helen Reddy has said she was sent the song, but "the demo... sabbatum on my turntable for months without being played because I didn't like the title".[19]

Roberta Flack first heard the song on an plane, when the Lieberman original was featured on the in-flying audio program.[1] After scanning the list of bachelor 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 vocal at least eight to ten times jotting down the tune that I heard. When I landed, I immediately called Quincy [Jones] at his house and asked him how to meet Charles Fob. 2 days after I had the music." Soon afterwards Flack rehearsed the vocal with her band in the Tuff Gong Studios in Kingston, Jamaica, but did not then record it.[20]

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 effectually me and said, 'Baby, don't ever do that song once again live until yous record it.'"[21]

Released in January 1973, Flack'due south version spent a total of five not-sequent weeks at number one in February and March, more than weeks than any other record in 1973. Billboard ranked information technology as the No. iii song for 1973.[22]

Charles Fox suggested that Flack'south version was more than successful than Lieberman'southward because Flack's "version was faster and she gave it a strong backbeat that wasn't in the original".[23] Co-ordinate to Flack: "My classical background made it possible for me to endeavour a number of things with [the song'southward organisation]. I changed parts of the chord structure and chose to terminate on a major chord. [The song] wasn't written that way."[24] The unmarried appeared as the opening track of her Killing Me Softly album, issued in Baronial 1973.

Flack won the 1973 Grammy Award for Tape of the Year and Best Female person Pop Song Performance, for the single, with Gimbel and Fox earning the Song of the Year Grammy.

In 1996 a house remix of Flack'due south version went to number one on the US trip the light fantastic chart.[25]

In 1999 Flack's version was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.[26] Information technology ranked number 360 on Rolling Stone 'south list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and number 82 on Billboard 's greatest songs of all time.[27]

Personnel [edit]

Credits are adapted from AllMusic.[28]

  • Roberta Flack – vocals, pianos, rhythm track arrangement
  • Eric Gale – guitars
  • Ron Carter – bass
  • Grady Tate – drums
  • Ralph MacDonald – congas, percussion, tambourine

Charts [edit]

Fugees version [edit]

"Killing Me Softly"
Kmsoftlyfugees.jpg
Unmarried by Fugees
from the album The Score
Released May 27, 1996 (1996-05-27)
Genre Hip hop
Length
  • four:58 (album version)
  • four:sixteen (radio edit)
  • four:00 (radio edit without intro)
Label
  • Ruffhouse
  • Columbia
Songwriter(south)
  • Charles Fox
  • Norman Gimbel
  • Lori Lieberman (uncredited)[one] [2]
Producer(s) Fugees
Fugees singles chronology
"Fu-Gee-La"
(1996) 		"Killing Me Softly"
(1996) 		"Ready or Not"
(1996)
Music video
"Killing Me Softly" on YouTube

Hip-hop group Fugees released their version of the vocal (titled "Killing Me Softly") on their album, The Score (1996), with Lauryn Hill singing the lead vocals. Fugees' version became an international hitting, reaching number one on the U.Southward. Top 40 nautical chart and number two on the U.S. airplay chart. The song topped the charts in over 20 countries, including the United Kingdom, where it is the best-selling hip hop single past a group,[42] additionally it became the country's acknowledged single of 1996, and remains one of the best-selling singles of all time in the United Kingdom. It was too the best-selling single of 1996 in Belgium, Federal republic of germany, Iceland, and kingdom of the netherlands. It has since sold i.36 one thousand thousand copies in United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland,[43] and has been certified 3× Platinum past the British Phonographic Industry. In the United States, the song has been certified 3× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, for selling approximately three million units in the U.S. The Fugees recording won the 1997 Grammy for Best R&B Performance past a Duo or Grouping with Song[44] and their music video won the MTV Video Music Honour for Best R&B Video.[45]

This version sampled the 1990 vocal, "Bonita Applebum" past A Tribe Called Quest from their debut album, People'due south Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm. A Tribe Called Quest had sampled the riff from the song, "Memory Ring" from the psychedelic soul band, Rotary Connection, and their 1967 eponymous debut album. The Fugees unmarried was so successful that the rail was "deleted", thus no longer being supplied to retailers whilst the track was however in the top 20, in an effort to depict attention to their next single, "Set up or Not". 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". In 2020, the song saw a resurgence in popularity on the social networking app TikTok.[46] [47] In 2021, Rolling Stone included it in their listing of "500 Best Songs of All Time".[48]

Background [edit]

"Killing Me Softly" was the last song Fugees recorded for The Score, after fellow member Pras made the suggestion to encompass information technology. They wanted to "see how nosotros tin can create break beats. And of course, we all beloved A Tribe Called Quest and nosotros went in like 'Okay, permit's cut that sample.'" They then added a bass reggae drop.[49] Initially, Fugees wanted to change the lyrics of the song to make information technology anti-drugs and anti-poverty simply the songwriters, Norman Gimbel and Charles Fox, refused.[50]

Composition [edit]

Fugees' version features "percussive rhythms" with "a synth sitar sound, Wyclef's blurted chants, Hill'south vocal melisma on the scatted bridge, and a flatulent drum-loop track".[51]

Critical reception [edit]

Celebrating the album'south 20th anniversary in Feb 2016, Kenneth Partridge from Billboard reviewed the song, saying, "It's a lovely cover that maintains the spirit of the original while taking the material in new directions."[52] Alan Jones from Music Week deemed it "a sensational update" of the Roberta Flack hit, adding that it "touches myriad musical bases, appealing as to pop, R&B, piece of cake listening and dance fans. Stripped to its bare bones, information technology is beautifully sung, with just enough rapping to set it autonomously from the original. The whole thing is superbly underlined past a bumping bass and percussion. Uncomplicated, refreshing and a huge hitting."[53] James Hamilton from the magazine's RM Dance Update noted information technology as a "plaintive girl and muttering chaps' thin bass bumped and sitar plinked but notwithstanding tenderly crooned remake".[54] In Jan 1997, Spin described the song as "an instant archetype, pumped out of every passing car from coast to coast, with Lauryn Hill's timeless voice never losing its poignant kick".[55]

Music video [edit]

The video, directed by Aswad Ayinde[56] and based on Lauryn Hill'due south ideas, never came out commercially in America.[57] The video features Roberta Flack.[51] [58]

Bounty Killer remix [edit]

Fugees recorded a dancehall version with Compensation Killer rapping, and Hill singing a rewritten chorus. However, they did not receive permission to release information technology on The Score.[59]

Track listing [edit]

UK CD1

  1. "Killing Me Softly" (Album Version Westward/Out Intro) – four:03
  2. "Killing Me Softly" (Album Instrumental) – 4:03
  3. "Cowboys" (Album Version) – 3:35
  4. "Nappy Heads" (Remix) – 3:49

United kingdom CD2

  1. "Killing Me Softly" (Album Version With Intro) – 4:16
  2. "Fu-Gee-La" (Refugee Camp Global Mix) – four:15
  3. "Vocab" (Refugees Hip Hop Mix) – 4:07
  4. "Vocab" (Salaam's Acoustic Remix) – 5:54

Charts [edit]

Sales and certifications [edit]

Release history [edit]

Notable comprehend versions [edit]

The vocal has been recorded by a number of other artists, including:

  • Johnny Mathis (1973)[133]
  • Perry Como - And I Love Yous So (1973)[133]
  • Cleo Laine and John Williams (1976)[133]
  • Precious Wilson and Sky Railroad train (1980)[133]
  • Luther Vandross (1994)[133]
  • Amii Stewart (1994)[133]

See likewise [edit]

  • List of number-one singles in Australia during the 1970s
  • Listing of RPM number-one singles of 1973
  • List of number-one singles in 1973 (New Zealand)
  • List of Hot 100 number-one singles of 1973 (U.Due south.)
  • Listing of number-one singles in Commonwealth of australia during the 1990s
  • List of number-one hits of 1996 (Austria)
  • List of Dutch Top 40 number-one singles of 1996
  • Listing of European number-ane hits of 1996
  • Listing of number-i hits of 1996 (France)
  • Listing of number-one singles of 1996 (Ireland)
  • Listing of number-ane singles in 1996 (New Zealand)
  • List of number-one singles from the 1990s (Uk)
  • List of number-ane trip the light fantastic toe singles of 1996 (U.S.)
  • List of Mainstream Elevation xl number-i hits of 1996 (U.S.)
  • List of Billboard Rhythmic number-one songs of the 1990s

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