And he pulled out the book and he was looking through it, and he says, 'Hey, what about a song title, 'Killing Me Softly With His Blues'?' Well, the 'killing me softly' part sounded very interesting, 'with his blues' sounded old fashioned in 1972 when we wrote it.
Norman had a book that he would put titles of songs, song ideas and lyrics or something that struck him at different times. Norman Gimbel and I wrote that song for a young artist whose name was Lori Lieberman. When Songfacts spoke with Charles Fox in 2010, he refuted this story: "I think it's called an urban legend. We talked it over several times, just as we did with the rest of the numbers we wrote for the album and we all felt it had possibilities."
I had a notion this might make a good song so the three of us discussed it. In a 1973 interview with the NY Daily News, Gimbel said: "She told us about this strong experience she had listening to McLean. According to Lieberman, the song was inspired by Don McLean, a singer/songwriter famous for his hit " American Pie." After being mesmerized by one of his concerts at the Troubadour theater in Los Angeles - and in particular McLean's song " Empty Chairs" - Lieberman wrote a poem on a napkin describing how she felt about McLean's performance and brought it to Norman Gimbel and Charles Fox, who were writing songs for her new album. "Killing Me Softly With His Song" was written by the songwriting team of Charles Fox and Norman Gimbel, and first recorded by Lori Lieberman in 1972.
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