Fox, Charles – Gimbel, Norman: Killing Me Softly with His Song
score and part
Setting: Concert Band
Weight: 1.058 kg
Published: 2008
Publisher: Hal Leonard
Item number: 1554-08-010DHE
Other reference: 1554-08-010 DHE
ISMN: 9790035031773
The tender ballad Killing Me Softly with His Song was written by Charles Fox and Norman Gimbel in 1971, for de American singer Lori Lieberman. She was very impressed with a performance by the then still unknown Don McLean in the Troubadour in Los Angeles. The feelings described in the lyrics are indeed those of Lieberman, but the one who - two years later - made the song world-famous was Roberta Flack. Her version won as many as three Grammy Awards. Since then, Killing Me Softly has been performed by numerous artists, including Herb Alpert, Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin, Anne Murray, Luther Vandross, and the Fugees.