![]() ![]() Īnd yet there could have been no song without her input, and she ultimately had Don McLean and those paper napkins to thank for the genesis of the song, on that fateful November night back in 1971. Meanwhile, Flack’s version won Record of the Year and Song of the Year at the Grammy Awards, and Flack won the Best Pop Vocal (Female) award, as Michael Heatley and Spencer Leigh note in their Behind the Song. Denied writing credit by Fox and Gimbel, Lieberman had released her version of the song in 1972, but it did not chart. ‘Killing Me Softly with His Song’ became a huge hit for Roberta Flack in 1973, after Flack heard Lieberman’s recording of the track while Flack was on a TWA flight from Los Angeles to New York in 1972. It makes us feel special even while we must know, deep down, that we are but one of many people being moved by it. Eliot, this song brings home something which Eliot recognised: great poetry is something which takes the universal and makes it feel personal, even though it is really universal. So, although it may seem like an odd detour from ‘Killing Me Softly’ to T.
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