Killing Me Softly

[Laelth]

Just a little nod to the greatest song of 1973.

Released in January 1973, Flack's version spent a total of five non-consecutive weeks at number-one in February and March 1973, being bumped to number 2 by the O'Jays' "Love Train" after four straight weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100. Charles Fox suggested that Flack's version was successful while Lieberman's was not because Flack's "version was faster and she gave it a strong backbeat that wasn't in the original."[5] According to Flack: "My classical background made 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."

Flack later won the 1973 Grammy Award for Record of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Female Performer and also took the Song of the Year Grammy.

In 1999 Flack's version was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.[13] It also ranked #360 on Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and #82 on Billboard's Greatest Songs of all time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_Me_Softly_with_His_Song

-Laelth

[pipi_k]

1. And from

the year before, my favorite Roberta Flack song...

with Donny Hathaway...

[Laelth]

2. I love that one too. n/t

-Laelth

[In_The_Wind]

3. I love her voice.

[Laelth]

4. To quote a line from The Commitments

"That's an instrument of God."



-Laelth