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Ted Tocks Covers

Killing Me Softly With His Song

Originally posted on February 24, 2018

Back to the early days of Ted Tocks Covers…

On February 24, 1973 Roberta Flack began a five-week run at #1 on the U.S. singles charts. On the very same day 52 years later she died peacefully at home following several years of battling ALS.

“Strumming my pain with his fingers
Singing my life with his words
Killing me softly with his song”

#lorilieberman #robertaflack

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Ted Tocks Covers · Killing Me Softly With His Song – A beautiful song with an undeniable passion and a controversial origin. #MusicisLife #TedTocksCovers #CharlesFox #NormanGimbel #LoriLieberman #RobertaFlack #TheFugees #NickHornby #AboutaBoyHere is a beautiful song that is unfortunately the subject of some dispute as to who deserves the songwriting credit. The official credit has ultimately been shown as a composition by Charles Fox w…

The incomparable Roberta Flack, who made Grammy history by winning Record of the Year in consecutive years with "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" (1973) and "Killing Me Softly With His Song" (1974) has died at age 88. Here's @THR's tribute to Flack, who told NPR's Ann Powers in 2020: “I always say that ‘love is a song’ — meaning that music reaches beyond age, race, nationality and religion to touch our hearts.”

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The Hollywood Reporter · Roberta Flack, Soulful “Killing Me Softly With His Song” Performer, Dies at 88By Mike Barnes

Roberta Flack, singer of 'Killing Me Softly,' has died. She was 88.

She got her start when she was 15 years old, winning a music scholarship to Howard University

Upon graduating, Flack taught at schools in North Carolina and Washington, D.C., and began performing in clubs, both as a pianist for other vocalists and as a singer herself.

"My main interest is in telling my story through a song — whether mine or someone else's," Flack told NPR's Ann Powers in 2020. "Tell the truth with clarity and honesty so that the listener can feel their story."

Flack was diagnosed with ALS in 2022 and retired from performing.

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Johnny Cash brings something deeper and more agonised to one of the best-ever love songs, 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face', written by the legendary Ewan MacColl for his lover Peggy Seeger, and made memorable by the equally wonderful Roberta Flack.
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#RobertaFlack
#EwanMacColl
(Apologies for linking to YouTube - I don't know a better alternative)
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