Killing Me Softly with His Song by Hampton Hawes

Written by: Charles Fox, Norman Gimbel
Language: English
First recorded on: August 14, 1976
Released on: At the Piano
Album
1977
Licensing: Request a synchronization license

Versions

Killing Me Softly with His Song written by Charles Fox, Norman Gimbel English

Title	Performer	Release date	Info
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Lori Lieberman	July 1972	First release
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Roberta Flack	January 1973	Hit song More famous than the original
Killing Me Softly with Her Song	Johnny Mathis	May 25, 1973
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Vikki Carr	May 1973
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Clint Holmes	May 1973
Killing Me Softly with Her Song	Perry Como	May 1973
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Dottie West	May 1973
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Lynn Anderson	June 1973
Killing Me Softly with His Song	The Undisputed Truth	June 1973
Killing Me Softly with Her Song	Bobby Goldsboro	August 1973
Killing Me Softly with His Song	New World	November 1973
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Tim Weisberg	November 1973
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Maynard Parker	1973
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Rusty Bryant	1973
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Ellen	1973
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Yngve Forsséll's Orchestra	1973
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Springbok	1973
Killing Me Softly	Lou Sino	1973
Killing Me Softly with Her Song	John Holt	1973
Killing Me Softly with His Song	The Ventures	1973
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Anne Murray	1973
There Was a Girl / Killing Me Softly wi…	Ray Conniff and The Singers	1973	Medley
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Vicki Lawrence	1973
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Sandra Reemer	1973
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Inger Lise	1973
Killing Me Softly with His Song	The Hiltonaires [DE]	1973
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Elaine Delmar	1973
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Shirley Bassey	1973
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Sergio Mendes & Brasil '77	1973
Killing Me Softly with Her Song	Andy Williams	May 1974
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Gianni Oddi	1974
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Charlie Byrd	1974
Killing Me Softly	Petula Clark	1974
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Mieko Hirota	1974
Killing Me Softly	Piet Noordijk	1974
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Engelbert Humperdinck	1974
Killing Me Softly	Lena Martell	1974
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Frances Yip	1974
Killing Me Softly	Janice Hoyte	1974
Killing Me Softly	Joy Fleming	1974
Killing Me Softly	Ed Kilbourne	1974
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Swingle II	1974
Killing Me Softly	Aura	1974
Killing Me Softly	The Peaches [CA2]	1974
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Kathie Kay	1974
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Jr. Walker & The All Stars	July 1975
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Bobby Vinton	December 1975
Killing Me Softly	Tuxen	1975
Ding a Dong Interpolating Killing Me So…	The King's Singers	1975
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Peter North	1975
Killing Me Softly with His Song	The Les Humphries Singers	1975
Killing Me Softly with His Song	The Geoff Love Singers	1975
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Peters & Lee	1975
Killing Me Softly	Vince Hill	1975
Killing Me Softly with His Song	The Singers Unlimited	1975
Killing Me Softly	Therapy [GB1]	1975
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Wout Steenhuis and The Wedgwoods	February 1976
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Cleo Laine & John Williams	1976
Killing Me Softly with His Song	The Brothers Four	1976
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Guys 'n' Dolls	1976
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Blossom Dearie	1976
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Teresa Teng	1976	Unverified
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Val Doonican	1977
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Hampton Hawes	1977
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Geraldine [IE1]	1977
Killing Me Softly	Candlewick Green	1977
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Brenda Lee	1977
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Mari Nakamoto	1977
Killing Me Softly	Rita Remington	1978
Killing Me Softly with Her Song	Howard Carpendale	1978
Killing Me Softly	Precious Wilson and Sky Train	August 1980
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Roberta Flack & Peabo Bryson	December 1980
Killing Me Softly	Barry Biggs	1980
Killing Me Softly	Helen Shepherd	1983
Killing Me Softly with His Song	The Eddy Starr Singers	1984
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Kimiko Kasai	1984
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Mina	1985
Killing Me Softly	Al B. Sure!	May 3, 1988
Killing Me Softly With...	Samurai & Hardbartle	1990
Killing Me Softly (With His Song)	Yta Farrow	1991
Killing Me Softly	Linda Imperial	1991
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Des'ree	1992
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Päivi Mäkinen & Mökö	1993
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Amii Stewart	1994
Killing Me Softly	Luther Vandross	1994
Killing Me Softly	Curiosity	1994
Killing Me Softly	Extempo	1995
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Cassandra Wilson	1995
Killing Me Softly	Fugees	February 1996	Uses samples from A Tribe Called Quest Definitive version Hit song More famous than the original
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Michelle [Cassens]	April 24, 1996
Killing Me Softly	Destroy All Monsters	October 1996
Killing Me Softly	Everyday People [US2]	1996	A cappella
Killing Me Softly	Sybersound	1996	Unusual cover song
Killing Me Softly	The Spades [NL]	1996
Killing Me Softly	The Phantoms [Georgetown]	1997	A cappella
Killing Me Softly	Siiri, Boris Björn Bagger & the International Acoustic Band	1997
Killing Me Softly	Gitte Hænning	September 1998
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Victoria Abril	1998
Killing Me Softly	Nils Landgren	April 1999
Killing Me Softly	Milton Nascimento	1999
Killing Me Softly with His Song	The BB Band	1999
Killing Me Softly	Usha Uthup	2000
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Cindy Scott [US1]	April 1, 2002
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Marianna Leporace	August 12, 2002
Killing Me Softly with His Song	The Amalgamates	October 2002	A cappella
Killing Me Softly	Susan Wong	2002
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Cheryl Bentyne	2003
Killing Me Softly	Chenoa	2003
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Kimberly Caldwell	2003	Version from TV talent show
Killing Me Softly	Captain Smartypants	2004
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Coco d'Or	July 26, 2006
Killing Me Softly	Michael Sagmeister	2006
Killing Me Softly	Don Latarski and Marilyn Keller	2006
Killing Me Softly	Perpetuum Jazzile	2006	A cappella
Killing Me Softly	The Mardi Gras Band - Claudette Stone - Dick Johnson	2007
Killing Me Softly	Georgeana Bonow	November 5, 2008
Killing Me Softly with His Song (Mátame…	Pitingo	2008
Killing Me Softly	Deborah Sasson	2008
Killing Me Softly	Layla Zoe	2008
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Starburkes & The Tea Leaf	April 2009
Killing Me Softly	Colbie Caillat	January 26, 2010
Killing Me Softly	Shanti Snyder	June 23, 2010
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Atelier Bossa-Conscious	September 2010	Unusual cover song
Killing Me Softly	Chelsey Forrest, Kirk Smart	2010
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Soul Kitchen-Band feat. Gail Anderson	January 26, 2011
Killing Me Softly	Virginia Belles	April 16, 2011	A cappella
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Afro Blue	October 24, 2011	A cappella
Killing Me Softly	Harvard Opportunes	December 2011	A cappella
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Joanie Samra - Jesse Green	2011
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Ruth Jacott	March 15, 2012	Live
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Katrina Parker	April 30, 2012
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Sussan Kameron (Open Records Studio Artists)	May 14, 2012
Killing Me Softly	Studio Players [Lark]	July 31, 2012
Killing Me Softly	Rhenda Fearrington	July 2012
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Keiko Lee	November 7, 2012
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Connie Evingson	2012
Killing Me Softly	The Dear Abbeys	2012	A cappella Live
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Sydney Claire	2012
Killing Me Softly	Gary Brown	2012
Killing Me Softly	Miss Murphy	May 27, 2013
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Keaira LaShae	October 1, 2013
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Nancy Sinatra	December 3, 2013
Killing Me Softly	Patricia Carrion	December 2013
Killing Me Softly	Lulu Roman	2013
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Audrey Kate Geiger	August 18, 2014
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Dean Dyson	April 26, 2015	Acoustic
Killing Me Softly	Ale Vanzella	April 2015
Killing Me Softly	Norah Benatia	May 27, 2016
Killing Me Softly	Aaliyah Warren	June 19, 2016	Version from TV talent show
Killing Me Softly	Joseph Vincent	July 8, 2016
Killing Me Softly	Scott & Ben	August 2016	Acoustic
Killing Me Softly	Freddy Parker	October 8, 2016	Version from TV talent show
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Meg Birch	February 26, 2017
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Autumn Turner & Vanessa Ferguson	March 27, 2017
Killing Me Softly	Scary Pockets feat. India Carney	September 11, 2017	Unusual cover song
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Michele Francesconi & Laura Avanzolini	September 22, 2017
Killing Me Softly	Alyssa Bernal	October 9, 2017
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Shannon & Keast	January 7, 2018	Acoustic
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Zhavia	January 19, 2018
Killing Me Softly	Roberto de Lujo feat. Shirma Rouse	February 23, 2018
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Megan Lee	March 6, 2018
Killing Me Softly	Nicole Cross	March 23, 2018
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Pomplamoose	March 23, 2018	Live
Killing Me Softly	Valerie Quesada	November 11, 2018
Killing Me Softly	Bailey Rushlow	October 18, 2019	Acoustic
Killing Me Softly	Curtis Walsh	February 8, 2020
Killing Me Softly	Fay Claassen	March 6, 2020
Killing Me Softly	Jason Chen	March 27, 2020	Acoustic
Killing Me Softly with His Song	Kandace Springs feat. Elena Pinderhughes	March 27, 2020

Killing Me Softly with His Song written by Charles Fox, Norman Gimbel instrumental

	Title	Performer	Release date	Info
i	Killing Me Softly with His Song	Roger Williams	July 1973
i	Killing Me Softly with His Song	George Saxon	November 1973
i	Killing Me Softly with Her Song	Lloyd Green	December 1973
i	Killing Me Softly with His Song	Roland Hanna	1973
i	Killing Me Softly with His Song	Franck Pourcel et son Grand Orchestre	1973
i	Killing Me Softly with His Song - Lost …	Erlon Chaves	1973	Medley
i	Killing Me Softly with His Song	Floyd Cramer	1973
i	Suavemente me mata con su canción	Miguel Ramos	1973
i	Killing Me Softly with His Song	Ferrante & Teicher	1973
i	Killing Me Softly	James Last	1973
i	Killing Me Softly	Hysear Don Walker	1973
i	Killing Me Softly with His Song	Andy Bono	1973
i	Killing Me Softly with Her Song	Andre Kostelanetz	1973
i	Elle chantait ma vie en musique	Le grand orchestre de Paul Mauriat	1973
i	Killing Me Softly with His Song	The Cecil Holmes Soulful Sounds	1973
i	Elle chantait ma vie en musique	Caravelli	1973
i	Killing Me Softly with His Song	Blue Mitchell	1973
i	Killing Me Softly with His Song	Al Viola	1973
i	Killing Me Softly (With His Song)	Johnny Pearson and His Orchestra	1973
i	Killing Me Softly with His Song	Rune Gustafsson	1973
i	Killing Me Softly with His Song	Ronnie Aldrich and His Two Pianos with The London Festival Orchestra & Chorus	1973
i	Killing Me Softly	The Paul Mitchell Trio	1973
i	Killing Me Softly with His Song	Sonny Stitt	1973
i	Killing Me Softly with His Song	Eric Gale	1973
i	Killing Me Softly with His Song	Jake Hernandez Concepcion	1973
i	Killing Me Softly	Orchester Konrad Grewe	1974
i	Killing Me Softly	Augusto Righetti	1974
i	Killing Me Softly (With His Song)	Pete Schofield and The Canadians	1974
i	Killing Me Softly	Mike Auldridge	1974
i	Killing Me Softly with His Song	Max Greger	1974
i	Killing Me Softly with His Song	Barney Kessel & Red Mitchell	1974
i	Killing Me Softly with His Song	Tony Mottola and the Brass Menagerie	1974
i	Killing Me Softly with His Song	CD-4 Sound Orchestra	1974
i	The Summer Knows - Killing Me Softly - …	Paul Kuhn	1974
i	Killing Me Softly with His Song	Paddy Kingsland	1974
i	Killing Me Softly with His Song	Billy Vaughn	1974
i	Killing Me Softly with His Song	Denis King and His Electric Piano	1974
i	Killing Me Softly with His Song	Dave Snell	1974
i	Killing Me Softly with His Song	Charles Segal	1974
i	Killing Me Softly	The George Shearing Quintet	1975
i	Jokainen päivä on liikaa	Paul Fagerlund	1975
i	Killing Me Softly	Paul Kuhn and The S.F.B. Big Band	1975
i	Killing Me Softly with His Song	Harry Stoneham	1975
i	Killing Me Softly with His Song	Joe Loss and His Orchestra	1975
i	Me está matando suavemente con su canci…	Bebu Silvetti	1975
i	Killing Me Softly	Bert Weedon	1975
i	Killing Me Softly with His Song	Jeannie Hoffman and David Friesen	1976
i	Killing Me Softly with His Song	Roelof Stalknecht	1976
i	Killing Me Softly	The 50 Guitars	1976
i	Killing Me Softly with His Song	Stéphane Grappelli and The Diz Disley Trio	1977
i	Killing Me Softly with His Song	Tadao Hayashi Harp Trio	1977
i	Killing Me Softly with Her Song	Isao Suzuki	1978
i	Killing Me Softly	Bruce Rowland	1978
i	Killing Me Softly	Hugo Strasser	1980
i	Killing Me Softly	Anthony Ventura and His Orchestra	1980
i	Killing Me Softly with His Song	Woody Herman	1981
i	Killing Me Softly with His Song	The Gino Marinello Orchestra	1984
i	Killing Me Softly	Toshifumi Hinata	December 1, 1987
i	Killing Me Softly	Lance Hayward	1987
i	Killing Me Softly	Tessa Ziegler	1987
i	Killing Me Softly with His Song	Donald Brown	1989
i	Killing Me Softly with His Song	Peter Breiner and His Orchestra	1990
i	Killing Me Softly with His Song	Shawn "Thunder" Wallace	1991
i	Killing Me Softly with His Song	Pim Jacobs & Louis van Dijk	1991
i	Killing Me Softly	Rupert Parker	1991
i	Killing Me Softly	Ron Sanfilippo	1994
i	Killing Me Softly	Lars Roos	1994
i	Killing Me Softly	Michael Chapdelaine	1995
i	Killing Me Softly with His Song	The Starsound Orchestra	1995
i	Killing Me Softly with His Song	The Hill-Wiltschinsky Guitar Duo	March 1996
i	Killing Me Softly with His Song	Paul Brooks	1996
i	Killing Me Softly (With This Song)	Pedro Javier González	1996
i	Killing Me Softly	Carl Doy	December 1997
i	Killing Me Softly	Walter Beasley	1997
i	Killing Me Softly with His Song	Mahogany [session]	1997
i	Killing Me Softly with His Song	Joe Augustine	January 1998
i	Killing Me Softly	Dan Gibson & Roger Saint-Denis	1998
i	Killing Me Softly with His Song	Arturo Sandoval	1999
i	Killing Me Softly	Rusty Hudelson	1999
i	Killing Me Softly	The Yuri Honing Trio	1999
i	Killing Me Softly	Anthony Arizaga	June 20, 2000
i	Killing Me Softly	Neal Schon	2001
i	Killing Me Softly with His Song	Romantic Saxophone Quintet	2001
i	Killing Me Softly	Robin Spielberg	2001
i	Killing Me Softly	Hank Marvin	February 2002
i	Killing Me Softly with His Song	Eric Hansen	March 26, 2002
i	Killing Me Softly with This Song	Jean-François Maljean	August 12, 2002
i	Killing Me Softly	Doug Walker	2002
i	Killing Me Softly with His Song	Brad Prevedoros	2002
i	Killing Me Softly with His Song	Benny Green, Russell Malone	January 28, 2003
i	Killing Me Softly with His Song	David Osborne	2003
i	Killing Me Softly with His Song	Bobby Durham / Lorenzo Conte / Massimo Faraò	2003
i	Killing Me Softly	Neil Stacey	2003
i	Killing Me Softly with His Song	Joe Locke & the New York Quartet	February 2004
i	Killing Me Softly	Raymond Jones	April 27, 2004
i	Killing Me Softly	Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass	February 8, 2005
i	Killing Me Softly	Youngblood Brass Band	May 2005
i	Killing Me Softly	Bruce Radtke Jazz Trio	2005
i	Killing Me Softly	2Play	June 2006
i	Killing Me Softly with His Song	Pedro Guasti	July 2006
i	Killing Me Softly	Ricardo Scales	2006
i	Killing Me Softly	Stephanie Jackson	2007
i	Killing Me Softly	Don Weller	2007
i	Killing Me Softly	David Wilson	February 2008
i	Killing Me Softly with His Song	Eric Alexander Quartet	August 2008
i	Killing Me Softly with His Song	Sam Levine	August 2008
i	Killing Me Softly	Roni Ben-Hur & Gene Bertoncini	2008
i	Killing Me Softly with His Song	Akiko Tsuruga	2009
i	Killing Me Softly	United Guitar Players	June 2011
i	Killing Me Softly with His Song	Ryan Ricks	January 6, 2012
i	Killing Me Softly with His Song	Jean Le Fort	May 2013
i	Killing Me Softly with His Song	Manu Dibango	October 21, 2013
i	Killing Me Softly with His Song	James Shanon	October 23, 2016
i	Killing Me Softly	Adam Rafferty	2016
i	Killing Me Softly	Katie Curley	May 5, 2017
i	Killing Me Softly	Evita	September 25, 2018

Dvě malá křídla tu nejsou written by Zdeněk Borovec Czech

		Title	Performer	Release date	Info
		Dvě malá křídla tu nejsou	Helena Vondráčková	1974	First release

Søgte mit indre written by Sebastian [DK] Danish

		Title	Performer	Release date	Info
		Søgte mit indre	Sanne Salomonsen	1973	First release

Killing My Suffering with His Son written by J. John Jackson English

		Title	Performer	Release date	Info
		Killing My Suffering with His Son	ApologetiX	September 2016	First release

Jokainen päivä on liikaa written by Juha Vainio Finnish

		Title	Performer	Release date	Info
		Jokainen päivä on liikaa	Päivi Paunu	1973	First release
		Jokainen päivä on liikaa	Marion [FI]	1974

Elle chantait ma vie en musique written by Eddy Marnay, Gilbert Montagné French

Title	Performer	Release date	Info
Il chantait ma vie en musique	Lori Lieberman	1973	First release
Elle chantait ma vie en musique	Gilbert Montagné	1973
Elle chantait ma vie en musique	Christian Delagrange	April 2015

Das Lied meines Lebens written by Michael Kunze German

Title	Performer	Release date	Info
Das Lied meines Lebens	Katja Ebstein	August 1973	First release
Etwas in mir wurde traurig (Das Lied me…	Manuela	1973
Etwas in mir wurde traurig	et cetera [DE2]	1996
Das Lied meines Lebens	Mark Lorenz	2001
Das Lied meines Lebens	Die jungen Tenöre	September 18, 2009

Eigene Träume written by Michael Rick German

		Title	Performer	Release date	Info
		Eigene Träume	Die Schlümpfe	1996	First release
		Eigene Träume	Die Schlapse	1996

Mi fa morire cantando written by Giorgio Calabrese Italian

Title	Performer	Release date	Info
Mi fa morire cantando	Marcella	September 1973	First release
Mi fai morir cantando	Lara Saint Paul	October 26, 1973
Mi fa morire cantando	Ornella Vanoni	1973
Mi fa morire cantando	Dana Valeri	1973
Mi fa morire cantando	Amaury Vassili	2009

Sangen han sang var min egen written by Terje Mosnes Norwegian

		Title	Performer	Release date	Info
		Sangen han sang var min egen	Inger Lise	1973	First release
		Sangen han sang var min egen	Penthouse Playboys	1996

Morrendo de Amor written by Paulo Sérgio Valle Portuguese

		Title	Performer	Release date	Info
		Morrendo de Amor	Joanna [BR]	1991	First release

Em Sua Voz written by Guilherme Arantes Portuguese

		Title	Performer	Release date	Info
		Em Sua Voz	Guilherme Arantes	1994	First release
		Em Sua Voz	Robinson	2001

Sonhos Não São Impossíveis written by Cury Heluy, Márcio Monteiro Portuguese

		Title	Performer	Release date	Info
		Sonhos Não São Impossíveis	Adriana	1996	First release
		Sonhos Não São Impossíveis	Kripta	1996	Unverified

Tal como soy written by unknown author(s) Spanish

		Title	Performer	Release date	Info
		Tal como soy	Casal	1989	First release

Matándome suavemente written by JAF Spanish

		Title	Performer	Release date	Info
		Matándome suavemente	JAF	1992	First release

Matándome suavemente written by Isabel Lascurain Spanish

		Title	Performer	Release date	Info
		Matándome suavemente	Pandora	1992	First release

Suave me mata written by Sigfredo Ariel Spanish

		Title	Performer	Release date	Info
		Killing Me Softly	Rhythms del Mundo featuring Omara Portuondo	2006	First release Editor's cover song pick

Mátame suavemente con tu canción written by unknown author(s) Spanish

		Title	Performer	Release date	Info
		Killing Me Softly with His Song (Mátame…	Pitingo	2008	First release

Sången han sjöng var min egen written by Bo Rehnberg Swedish

		Title	Performer	Release date	Info
		Sången han sjöng var min egen	Lill Lindfors	1973	First recording in 1973 First release
		Sången han sjöng var min egen	Lotta Engbergs	1997

Ayrılık Hasreti written by [Unknown] Turkish (not verified yet)

		Title	Performer	Release date	Info
		Ayrılık Hasreti	Nilüfer	1974	Unverified

Dodelijk Zachtjes Verdwijnt Het written by [Unknown] Dutch (not verified yet)

		Title	Performer	Release date	Info
		Dodelijk Zachtjes Verdwijnt Het	Gerard Cox		Unverified

やさしく歌って written by [Unknown] Japanese (not verified yet)

		Title	Performer	Release date	Info
		やさしく歌って	Junko Ohashi	1974	Unverified

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