I have always wondered what song it was that Don maclean had sung that so affected Roberta Flack to make her write such a beautiful song as Killing me softly and to date no one knows can anyone tell me?
2006-10-29 23:14:45 · 15 answers · asked by worlknut 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
"Killing Me Softly with His Song" is a song composed by Charles Fox and Norman Gimbel. The song was inspired by a poem by Lori Lieberman, "Killing Me Softly with His Blues," which she wrote after seeing a then-unknown Don McLean perform the song "Empty Chairs" live.
Lieberman was the first to record Fox and Gimbel's song, in 1971, but it became a bigger hit when covered by Roberta Flack in 1973, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 4 weeks. It was replaced by Love Train by the The O'Jays. Killing Me Softly returned to the top of the U.S. charts replacing Love Train.
Hip-hop group The Fugees covered the song in 1996, with Lauryn Hill singing the lead vocals. Their version reached number two on the U.S. airplay chart, and had similar success in the U.K., reaching number one and selling over a million copies. Propelled by the success of the Fugees track, the version by Flack was remixed in 1996 and topped the Hot Dance Club Play chart.
Other major artists to cover the song include Engelbert Humperdinck, Frank Sinatra, Tori Amos, Eva Cassidy, Perry Como, Aretha Franklin, Luther Vandross, Toni Braxton, Alicia Keys, Jaco Pastorius and Shirley Bassey.
The song was prominently featured in the 2002 film About a Boy in which the boy of the title, Marcus, is ridiculed by classmates for singing the song, a favourite of his mother's, at his school talent show because of its feminine associations and romantic, emotional lyrics
2006-10-29 23:20:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The original version of the hit '70s song sung by Roberta Flack, "Killing Me Softly," was written by Lori Lieberman. After seeing Don McLean perform "American Pie," at the Troubadour in Los Angeles, Lieberman wrote a poem, expressing her feelings about seeing McLean and "American Pie."
2006-10-29 23:25:13 · answer #2 · answered by Polo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually the song was written by Lori Lieberman and was inspired by a performance of the then unknown Don McLean singing "Empty Chairs" at the Troubador. Roberta Flack then later heard the song and eventually recorded it.......
2006-10-29 23:24:24 · answer #3 · answered by delighteddave 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Roberta Flack didn't write the song. The song was actually written by two men, Charles Fox and Norman Gimbel, who based the song on a poem written by Lori Lieberman, called, "Killing me softly with his blues." The song he was singing was "Empty Chairs." Here's a page for you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_Me_Softly_with_His_Song
2006-10-29 23:20:18 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Killing Me Softly Writer
2016-12-29 18:50:41 · answer #5 · answered by latourette 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was Vincent refers to the painting by Van Gogh of a Starry Starry Night.
2006-10-29 23:24:25 · answer #6 · answered by jojo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Hear the trumpets, hear the bagpipes. One hundred million neds geein it laldy ...? ....multitudes are heavin tae the big yin a clarty kettle a wee drum. Voices hootin', weans greetin' Some are born and some are malkied...."
2016-03-28 01:30:43 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
American pie - which in turn was about Buddy Holly
2006-10-29 23:27:43 · answer #8 · answered by Joanne W 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was American Pie. American Pie was inturn written after the death of Buddy Holly ...."the day the music died"..
2006-10-29 23:22:35 · answer #9 · answered by MissBehave 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2017-03-02 02:12:42 · answer #10 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋