Killing Me Softly with His Song
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Ensembles
Concert Band
Genres
Pop
Rock
Formats
Set of Parts
Score and Parts
Levels
Grade 5
Usages
School and Community
Concert Band/Harmonie - Grade 5

SKU: BT.1554-08-010-DHE

Composed by C. Fox and Norman Gimbel. Arranged by Toshio Mashima. New Sounds for Concert Band. Pop & Rock. Set (Score & Parts). Composed 2008. Hal Leonard #1554-08-010 DHE. Published by Hal Leonard (BT.1554-08-010-DHE).

9x12 inches. English-German-French-Dutch.

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.

De gevoelige ballad Killing Me Softly with His SongKilling Me Softly door vele artiesten uitgevoerd, onder wie Herb Alpert, Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin, Anne Murray, Luther Vandross en de Fugees.

Dieser wunderschone Song über eine Person, die sich im Lied eines Strassensangers wieder erkennt, wurde so oft wie kaum ein anderes interpretiert und hat doch nichts von seiner Beliebtheit eingebüsst. Die erste Version stammt aus dem Jahre 1972 von Lori Lieberman, 1996 brachte es die amerikanische Hip-Hop-Gruppe The Fugees wiederum weltweit in die Charts, sodass der Song heute Generationen verbindet. Ein sicherer Publikumserfolg!

Pianiste de formation classique, Roberta Flack fait partie, avec Donny Hathaway ou Bill Withers, d'une generation de chanteurs soul intimistes qui s'est imposee au debut des annees 70. En 1973, le titre Killing Me Softly (qui sera revisite par les Fugees en 1996) caracole en tete des hit-parades du monde entier. Killing Me Softly a definitivement mis une etiquette sur cette chanteuse a la voix delicate, caressante et envoutante qui n'est pas sans rappeler Carole King, Carly Simon et Janis Ian. La suite appartient a la legende.