“Killing Me Softly With His Song,” was written by Norman Gimbel and Charles Fox. Gimbel was then best-known for writing English-language lyrics to such global hits as “The Girl From Ipanema ...

“By the time she had landed she had listened to Killing Me Softly about four times and scribbled down all the lyrics and all of the chord changes, and she felt that she could do something with ...

“Killing Me Softly with His Song” (1973 ... only to end this breathless encounter on a major chord and a hastened beat. Wow. “I Can See the Sun in Late December” (1975) Several of Stevie ...

Another stunning example of Flack’s interpretive power, and of her role in curating a new pop songbook in the 1970s. She paints this modern standard — made famous with lachrymose sweetness by the ...