Killing Me Softly with His Song
Song by Charles FoxWikipedia
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Sep 24, 2026
LaurenGUEST
And then, you know, I was like, oh, it's time.
LaurenGUEST
So I ended up doing Killing Me Softly, but Lauryn Hill's version.
LaurenGUEST
I don't know why.
LaurenGUEST
Oh, you
Rob ElbaHOST
Wow.
Rob ElbaHOST
And yeah, Norman Gimbel, I guess, wrote, he was a lyricist and he wrote like Killing Me Softly.
Rob ElbaHOST
I think he co-wrote Killing Me Softly and a lot of other songs.
Rob ElbaHOST
Roberta Black.
Rob ElbaHOST
Yeah.
Anne BissonGUEST
You go to demo, you go in the studio, you do a demo.
Anne BissonGUEST
On this demo, there was Killing Me Softly.
Anne BissonGUEST
I just released it a few years ago, but I hadn't done before.
Anne BissonGUEST
And he said, you know what, I know a company, Fidelio, Fidelio Audio, and they work with Sim Audio Moon, which is not totally your moon, but you know, Sim Audio Moon.
KevinHOST
I think on the Letterboxd thing it said that Nicholas Holt's character is a young boy who sings Joni Mitchell, but I don't remember him ever actually singing any Joni Mitchell.
KevinHOST
They sing Killing Me Softly by Roberta Flack, but that's not Joni Mitchell.
KevinHOST
Anyway, yeah, it was an interesting, fun comedy.
KevinHOST
Yeah, I don't really have that much to say about it.
DonHOST
Oh, I knew
DudeHOST
like Killing Me Softly and Ooh La La La and stuff.
DudeHOST
Yeah.
DudeHOST
So, I just assumed that Lauren just sang and she's a very capable rapper.
DudeHOST
So, Don, what track would you like to focus on? We got to do it.
DonHOST
Yes.
DonHOST
We'll do the big hit, Killing Me Softly.
DonHOST
So this is, of course, a cover.
Frank OstHOST
Next was Where's the Love, a top five duet with collaborator Donny Hathaway.
Frank OstHOST
Killing Me Softly with His Song, followed and again hit number one and garnered the second record of the year award.
Frank OstHOST
Flack then released Feel Like Making Love, which became her third and final number one hit and another million seller.
Roberta FlackSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Strolling in the park Watching winter turn to spring Walking in the dark Seeing lovers do their thing Ooh, that's the time I feel like making love to you That's the time I feel like making dreams come true When you're touching me and my feelings start to show.
Aya Fubara EneliHOST
And doors just opened.
Aya Fubara EneliHOST
The very next year, Killing Me Softly with his song won that same award again, Grammy for Record of the Year.
Aya Fubara EneliHOST
And as you noted, I became the first solo artist in history to win Record of the Year in back-to-back years.
Aya Fubara EneliHOST
And I don't care who would try to take that.
Aya Fubara EneliHOST
And again, I found this on an airplane brochure and
Adesoji IginlaHOST
tracked it down myself.
Aya Fubara EneliHOST
Years later, Charles Fox would write in his own memoir, Killing Me Softly, My Life in Music, and he asked me to write a foreword for his book, which I did because that song changed both our lives.
Aya Fubara EneliHOST
I
Tim Conway Jr.HOST
Wow.
Tim Conway Jr.HOST
And then Robbie Fox, his dad was a composer and wrote Killing Me Softly, Laverne and Shirley, Happy Days, all the theme
Mark ThompsonGUEST
songs.
Mark ThompsonGUEST
Oh my God.