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• j_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'

  February 24 Posts: 9,157

  I also own - and have owned for over fifty years - the original "Killing Me Softly" album (on vinyl, and later on CD). At least in Europe, the 12" vinyl had a strange cover that you could fold out along the silhouette of the piano.
  
  
  
  
  
  I also bought her first album "First Take" much later, the latter containing her other major hit, "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face". Which was written in 1957 by British socialist songwriter Ewan MacColl for his former lover (and yet later wife), Peggy Seeger (Pete's half-sister). Roberta's version is simply super-beautiful, and her later songs really just complemented this impression.
  
  It should also be mentioned, while Roberta really embodied "Killing Me Softly", that it was alleged written by Norman Gimbel and Charles Fox for a singer named Lori Lieberman, after she told them about her feelings during a performance by Don McLean. This was refuted later by Fox, but Gimbel once confirmed it and McLean actually stated that he was proud to have been the inducement for the song, one of the greatest ever in Roberta's version.