Killing me Softly” was originally recorded by Lori Lieberman, and ““he” was Don MacLean, and ”his song” was “American Pie”.
Roberta Flack covered it in 1973, and that’s the version everyone remembers. It became a monster hit, and was EVERYWHERE!
Perry Como did cover the song as well.
If you go on Youtube and say, but here’s Frank Sinatra doing it, if you listen to the voice you will know that’s not Sinatra, and the comments bear that out. It was really Perry Como. Either someone couldn’t tell the difference between the two voices or mistakenly put Sinatra’s pic when he meant to put Como’s.
Either way, Sinatra never covered the song. But he did sing a song called ““Softly as I Kill You”. That causes a lot of confusion.
Source: https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-feud-over-killing-me-softly-with-her-song-between-Perry-Como-Frank-Sinatra
I heard she sang a good song, I heard she had a style
and so I came to see her and listen for a while.
And there she was this young girl, a stranger to my eyes.
Strumming my pain with her fingers,
Singing my life with her words,
Killing me softly with her song,
Killing me softly with her song,
Telling my whole life with her words,
Killing me softly with her song
I felt all flushed with fever, embarrassed by the crowd,
I felt she found my letters and read each one out loud.
I prayed that she would finish but she just kept right on.
Strumming my pain with her fingers,
Singing my life with her words,
Killing me softly with her song,
Killing me softly with her song,
Telling my whole life with her words,
Killing me softly with her song
She sang as if he knew me in all my dark despair
And then she looked right through me as if I wasn't there.
But she just came to singing, singing clear and strong.
Strumming my pain with her fingers,
Singing my life with her words,
Killing me softly with her song,
Killing me softly with her song,
Telling my whole life with her words,
Killing me softly with her song
Submitted by delamare at Tue 21 Dec, 2010 5:23 pm
Last updated by walter at Tue 03 Nov, 2020 10:20 am
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A. Ogier Adelaide Australia