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Song: Killing Me Softly with His Song
Singer: Lori Lieberman
Album: Lori Lieberman (released 1972)
Composer: Charles Fox
Lyrics: Norman Gimbel
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The lyrics of this song was based on a poem that Lori Lieberman wrote.
I first heard this song being played in a music store in Ginza in Tokyo in early February 1973.
The more popular Roberta Flack's cover of this song was released at least year after this 1972 Lori Lieberman original.
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Here's the link to the Blender webpage that discussed the origin of this song, and how Roberta Flack heard it first.
http://www.blender.com/guide/articles...Also, check out this link to The Independent (London) accounts about this song.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi...From Wikipedia:
Lori Lieberman is an American singer. She was born in California and grew up in Switzerland, and signed a deal with Capitol Records in the early 1970s. Her self-titled debut album featured the tune "Killing Me Softly with His Song", said to have been written after seeing Don McLean in concert.
The tune was reworked by Charles Fox and Norman Gimbel, and would go on to be a chart-topping single for Roberta Flack a few years later. Lieberman released several albums on Capitol in the 1970s and also provided music for the Schoolhouse Rocks TV show in the late '70s and early '80s. In the 1980s Lieberman receded from the industry and had three children; in the mid-1990s she began recording again for independent labels."
You may visit her official website:
http://www.lorilieberman.comLori Lieberman has a very lovely voice. She is an artist, who has contributed several beautiful music to the world.
This is THE version that I first heard in Tokyo in February 1973.
Just listening to the intro and the first minute of the song just blew me away!
I also like the Roberta Flack cover but this Lori Lieberman song is THE one that got me first.
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To all Lori Lieberman fans and to all who enjoy great music rendition:
Enjoy!
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