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Killing Me Softly With His Song
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"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 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 1 on the Billboard charts.
Hip-hop group The Fugees covered the song in 1996, reaching Number 2 on the U.S. charts and similar success in the U.K.
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