Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly With His Song (Official Video)
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- Опубліковано 15 сер 2023
- Roberta Flack performs her 1973 #1 hit Killing Me Softly With HIs Song from her album Killing Me Softly "Killing Me Softly With His Song" earned Roberta Flack the GRAMMY for Record of The Year in 1974. 🎧 Listen to more Roberta Flack here: Atlantic75.lnk.to/RiS7BQTF
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Lyrics
Strumming my pain with his fingers
Singing my life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
Killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
I heard he sang a good song
I heard he had a style
And so I came to see him
To listen for a while
And there he was this young boy
A stranger to my eyes
Strumming my pain with his fingers
Singing my life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
Killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
I felt all flushed with fever
Embarrassed by the crowd
I felt he found my letters
And read each one out loud
I prayed that he would finish
But he just kept right on
Strumming my pain with his fingers
Singing my life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
Killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
He sang as if he knew me
In all my dark despair
And then he looked right through me
As if I wasn't there
And he just kept on singing
Singing clear and strong
Strumming my pain with his fingers
Singing my life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
Killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
Ohhhh ohhhh ohhhh
Ohh ohh ohh ohh ohh ohh ohh
La la la, la la la
Ohh ohh ohh, ohh ohh ohh
La ahh ahhhhhh haaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Ha ahh ahh, ahh ahh ahh ahh
Strumming my pain with his fingers
Singing my life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
Killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words
Killing me (softly)
He was strumming my pain
Yeah, he was singing my life
Killing me softly with his song
Killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words
Killing me softly
With his song
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Maravillosa❤
Me
In 2024 may enjoing this clasic theme .Beatifull ❤
I"m here, June 2024.😊 ❤
Roberta is from my hometown in Asheville NC. One Christmas, she gave a free concert downtown in the late 1980's. I remember her in a full length fur coat standing on stage as we were all very cold but she was a true professional and spectacular and her voice was just as good live as in the recordings. Roberta was a special person.
I'll bet she was. My mom always liked her music,as I was growing up. Roberta Flack was part of my life growing up❤
Aww you from Christ school… I go from Owen and y’all’s XC team is so cracked. Just a random thought, love this song though 😅
“Is” a special person. She’s still with us :)
You have a foto?
Pitch Perfect.
No auto-tune. No huge choir or extravagant band. Just a pure voice and talent. Absolutely breathtaking!!!!
TRAP MUSIC 100000000% AUTOTUNE 🤢
@@thiagooo2096 you're an idiot
Live performances were really a treat back in the day.. No autotune, no backup singers (kinda), just talent.
This feels like opening an old chest in the attic & rediscovering forgotten treasures.
ABSOLUTELY
You sir, are a poet. ❤️
@@a.t.c.3862 ♥️
Oh, YEAH!!! And we happened to have an attic, when this played on the radio, every day! I can still smell the wood rafters on a hot, humid Allentown summer day!!!
@@1Skeeler1 This song evokes a lot of memories it's legendary,
People with this kind of voice is few and far between. Love it. May she get into the hall of fame.
she has my vote.
She is my idol since I was 18 playing her nonstop in my cassette recorder. From João Pessoa, Brazil.
Best version. Pure voice. No instrument clutter.
one of the best ever
I agree this is definitely the best version.
FEBRUARY 2024 IM LISTENING WHOS HERE TOOOO❤❤❤❤
Me! But it's March now 😂 First time that I listen to the original version, always thought it was a Fugees' song
@@MrMiguelo80 Yes welcome March♥️♥️
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March baby and love this song
@@richrichwilliams2972 YES1972 vibes for me nice over nice an epic Classicccccc,
This is still a beautiful song even today. Because it’s sung by a beautiful talented lady and the lyrics will last forever ❤
Great
Up
"The Queendom" ❤ 👸🏽 👑 ♠️ ❤🎻One of two R&B 45's Grandma 👵🏾 Ophelia would play. The 2nd midnight train to Georgia.❤
YES!!!
This song is actually a cover Lori Lieberman did it first the song was composed by Charles Fox with lyrics by Norman Gimbel
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To me Roberta Flack is, and has been one of the major musicians in the history of the rock & roll era. Her crystal clear vocals combined with her gift of piano, her obvious spiritual goodness, and her love of life, music, peace, and sharing her talents with the rest of the world, I believe Roberta Flack ranks right up there with the likes of Maria Callas, Èdith Piaf, Leontyne Price, Nina Simone, and Mahalia Jackson. These are our angels of voice, comfort, and inspiration.
she is world class. Her music will live forever
I absolutely agree with you!!
She did not write this song. Nor did she write the lyrics
I'm still listening in 2024 and beyond....JUMBO, JUMBO!!!🤓🤓🤓
❤
Im a 64 year old man. This is a song that reflects my feelings when my son came into my life. It is so relatable that i still sing it to him, he is in his early 30s
Thanks for sharing your story. It is a very beautiful act of love that you have towards your child.
Mi negra ,hermosa ❤❤❤
❤
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Marzo 2024
¿Quién disfruta de este clásico?❤
Yo. Yo tengo 47 años, y nunca imaginé estar oyendo un video del 1972. Pero que bueno es su canto, y sin auto-tune. Esta canción es mi favorita, y la canta Lauryn Hill.
Ich bin aufgewachsen mit diesem Song.'Er'war da seit den frühen 70er Jahren.Ich liebe ihn❤❤❤
the classic is timeless; the lyrics, the melody, the vocals and the instruments are just fabulous. The song is among my collection of the Golden oldies. Love it.
She is Still, the most beautiful artist. In sound, in person. We love you Roberta Flack, always.
I just had to hear this today. This instant. I wanted to sing it with her driving in my car. A little old lady driving home singing w Roberta Flack. Yup! Just what I needed. 🎶 ❤😊💐
My feelings EXACTLY! 😍🫂
Evergreen song and as beautiful as you
Roberta Flack is a angel in disguise. She has fooled us all so well with the most angelic voice known to man.
Roberta flack is great! ❤❤❤❤
Gorgeous voice
This song was number 1, the week so September 7. 1973. That was 50 years ago. I was born September 7, 1973
That means you're #1 😉💫
My first year of college. We were all boy crazy and played this song constantly.
I was born September 7, 1993. Be happy 💪🏽
I was 16 in 1973. OMG, High School with this quality of singer and music, How lucky were we!!
I was just starting my senior year in HS. The early 70's had some of the best music ever written and performed.
My , late father turned my family onto Roberta back in the mid 70's . We' d listen to this and Simon and Garfunkle on long family trips in our car . Good Stuff !
Roberta also had some nice songs that were in a couple of Clint Eastwood movies. Late 70s to early 80s.
What a voice!!😭
My mother used to sing this song for my siblings and I when we were very young. We had her recorded singing this song on a tape. Love U mom. Miss U. ❤
She is truly a gift from God with her voice even today a very beautiful song by a truly classy woman
This is magically beautiful.
❤Roberta Flack is what artistry is all about. A true angel who soars through the sky as she sings.🎉
Magical....the voice, the range, the composure, everything 👌🏿👌🏿👌🏿👌🏿👌🏿 I thank my late dad for ensuring that we grew up listening to proper, proper music!
As a very young little boy, many a night on my am radio, fell asleep listening to this beautiful song.
The best love ballad ever written and performed. Not even close.
Perfection never dies...
Another reminder of the Best Decade, Ever. Simply Beautiful ❤️
I'm a brazilian guy that thanks God because I like musics like that, and I always liked music this type.
you are a guy with a good taste in music.
MAY 3RD 2024...STILL A CLASSIC SONG 😊😊😊
Roberta, you seranaded and soothed the hearts of so, so many people. I hope someone is there to comfort you.
No one can touch this ever. ❤❤❤
the classic is a bomb upto day. love it.
Unique and beautiful voiice. No screaming, just gorgeous straight ahead singing, making it about the song and music. She and Whitney my favorites.
Timeless hits 🎤👳🏾♀️🎼🔥
One of my favorite songs of the seventies. I remember so many things when listening to it, and enjoy it
Beautiful Singing
Шикарный льётся голос! Как золото колокольчиков! Я в знак восхищения склоняю голову перед шикарной женщиной, певицей, артистом! 😍🌹
Roberta has such a beautiful voice! I loved this song when it was first released back in the early 70s.
I was 4 when it came out. I still freaking love this song ❤❤❤❤
This song still haunts me, 50 yrs later, from when I first heard it as a child...
It’s like a red wine and as beautiful as you are ❤
Angelic. Timeless. I grew up with this tune and it was the best tune on the dance floor in those days the 70s.
Uno de los mejores temas de los años 70. Un clásico de todos los tiempos.
sin palabras para definir el que siento al escuchar esta clásico de Roberta Flack una de mis canciones preferidas del mundo la mejor
None of the music of today will be as lasting as songs like this. It is amazing how much the quality in music and art have dropped.
Making love with lyrics; still remember when this came out, definitely a favorite … Roberta’s voice is so fantastic she makes you “FEEL” it too!! ♥️
Sou apaixonado por esta linda voz, que bela música. Volta Redonda RJ 16/01/2024
Ela é maravilhosa
The greatest female singer of the 20th century. ❤ I have tears in my eyes while listening to her.
I cry also. More beauty than I can absord
Have to agree
bullying,eu ouvi quando foi lançada por Roberta essa beldade,eu tinha 12 anos e com 62anos atualmente; não há uma só vez que quando ouço não né emociono e me encanto como minha primeira vez,adoro cantarolar sózinha em casa,rsrs
Não sei o que seria do planeta sem a beleza e cultura dessa raça fantástica ❤!
April 2024...I'm here ❤
Yo también...desde Argentina!
PAIN RIGHT!!!✌🏾😊🇲🇾✊🏽
🤩 nice! Back when mellow music was Quality ; childhood memories 🤓 🙏🏻
Atravesó Fronteras 🇳🇮 (Nic.)
2024 anyone ❤
Roberta Flack was in a world of her own just a beautiful woman telling her beautiful story…God Bless her.
My parents had the 8 track tape of her music. This was my favorite song when i was very young during the 1970s. Oh the memories
Remembering the past, the moment....really a beautiful song. Wonderful Roberta Flack!
Hermosa canción de los 70 bella música que marcó una época en la que si existía los verdaderos interpretes canciones que quedarán en nuestra alma ❤🌷🌈🎼🎼🎼🎵🎵🎵🎵
Siempre es un placer estético del más alto nivel escuchar a tan notable artista Gracias por tan buen A RTE❤
Hola,continuo escuchando a roberta en febrero del 2024.reciclo la vida para vivir.gracias.
This song is one of my all time favourites ❤ 1970 the best music ever
Great song and amazing singer !
You can’t help but get gooseflesh hearing Flack’s voice and feeling her melancholia in each line. You all have been there and know.❤
how beautiful inside and out ❤ please lord bring back the 60s and 70s cause the 2020’s suck worse than ever especially the music
Love this Song
And The Voice ... so Amazing❤
This song deeper then what ppl think
Mom loved this , Roberta’s beautiful voice, along with meaningful lyrics . My Mom also sang like an angel . Thank you for sharing ❤
This song brings me back to the memory of the movie I don't remember, time flies and the song shall never die!
What a class act! Awesome performance!
Beautiful voice. Excellent singing. Love Roberta Flack.
ROBERTA IS A WONDERFUL❤ BEAUTIFUL🎆MAGICAL🏆 LOVE U ANGEL😘🌍
In all our dark dispear, God is always there to help, guide and lift us out of this spiritual warfare we face mam. God bless you with lotsa love from NZ❤
This is such a unique subject for a song. It is sort of a song within a song. Songs have the power to well up all kinds of memories of all kinds of experiences.
That’s so true ❤
@@johnreeves9528 I strive to write/record music that relates to the human experience. The one song that is doing well internationally is one about aging, believe it or not. Check out my "Still Green" on UA-cam. Thanks and take care.
HAPPY 87TH BIRTHDAY
ROBERTA FLACK
(FEBRUARY 10, 2024)
One of the best songs ever.
She is one of the best ever.. when i hear the fugees cover, i just get disappointed when it cut out to them. She is so talented.
Yes, Roberta's cover is better than Fugees'.
Beautiful lady, beautiful song and lyrics. Brings back memories of my young life and most romantic moments listening to this wonderful lady !
I was in high school when this came out. So many great memories around this song.
Just the most beautiful voice ,smile,words,you killed us all ...God bless you Roberta Flack..much love from da Bronx New York...
Escuchar a está Diosa es como si Los Ángeles celestiales te estuvieran susurrando al oído… 😘😘😘
Greatest!!!!!👏👏👏👏
This song by her brings emotion and tears to my eyes ❤❤❤
This gives me chills in my legs 😮
One of my all-time favorite songs, and what a beautiful voice.
She was my very first concert. Early 80s at Freedom Weekend Aloft in SC. Beautiful in every way.
Very special Lady,,,, Brave , powerful presentation with only the grace this Lady could perform this song. Amazing the song writing talent who ever put those words down.
A beautiful rich smooth natural voice ❤️
Março de 2024, ouvindo essa canção lindíssima,com uma interpretação dessa extraordinária Roberta Flack maravilhosa.
Quite simply... music does not get better than this Even fifty years later one of my favorites..
I love this song i was just a one month old when this song was recorded ❤❤❤i just love listen to her music
Most beautiful song ever💕
❤yea beautiful like yourself
eyes closing and dreaming🤗🤗🤗what a feeling in her voice
BEAUTIFUL SINGER 😊😊😊😊
You are speaking only to me.
“Killing me softly with your words - Roberta Flack”
The sad things is - I never knew and I’m 57 years old. Only now I know. Thank you Jimmy for staring into my soul and saying it exactly as it is. That’s powerful man!
Shall I morn for my life?
Not too many voices anywhere that I know of any more beautiful than this.
Un Himno.. Solemne 💖... maravillosa Roberta Flack ✔️🌿🌺💝🙏🌻💜
This song is about watching Don McLean in concert. One of the greatest lyrical wonders and Roberta just kills it. Absolute perfection.
Don Mclean is so repetitive. I never like him or folk, country, etc. Love the blues, rock, jazz, soul.
I never knew that until I watched a special documentary about Don McLean. Killing Me Softly was written by Lori Lieberman, who wrote it on a napkin while she watched Don McLean sing several songs, especially Empty Chairs. She was going through a breakup and was only 19 years old. Her friend made her go see him at a club and she felt as though he was singing about her life. She recorded Killing Me Softly about Don and it just started going up the record charts. Roberta Flack heard it while on an airplane, then contacted Quincy Jones and said she wanted to record the song right away. Roberta put her flair on it and it was wonderful. A beautiful song that started out as a poem on a napkin.
Fantastic brings back childhood memories
March 24 , 2024 . My teacher forced me to listen to this song , so here I am. (I had no other choice. If ukuk). But ngl the song is so good ❤