Description
Roberta Flack – Killing Me Softly / Poliprint Kiado Audio CD / PPCD-110
UPC 5998124301101
Killing Me Softly is a studio album by American singer-songwriter Roberta Flack, released on August 1, 1973, by Atlantic Records. She recorded the album with producer Joel Dorn for 18 months.
Killing Me Softly reached number three on the Billboard Top LPs & Tape and number two on the Soul LPs chart. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified the album gold on August 27, 1973, and double platinum on January 30, 2006, denoting shipments of two million copies in the United States. It was nominated for a Grammy Award for Album of the Year, which it lost to Stevie Wonder's 1973 album Innervisions. The album's title track was released as a single and topped the Billboard Hot 100. It won the 1974 Grammy Award for Record of the Year.
Tracklist:
- "Killing Me Softly with His Song" (Charles Fox, Norman Gimbel) 4:49
- "Jesse" (Janis Ian) 4:03
- "No Tears (In the End)" (Ralph MacDonald, William Salter) 4:56
- "I'm the Girl" (James Alan Shelton) 4:55
- "River" (Gene McDaniels) 5:03
- "Conversation Love" (Terry Plumeri, Bill Seighman) 3:43
- "When You Smile" (Ralph MacDonald, William Salter) 3:44
- "Suzanne" (Leonard Cohen) 9:44
| 1 | Killing Me Softly With His Song | 4:46 |
| 2 | Jesse
Arranged By [Strings] – Eumir Deodato |
4:00 |
| 3 | No Tears (In The End)
Arranged By [Horns] – Alfred Ellis |
4:56 |
| 4 | I'm The Girl
Arranged By [Cello] – Kermit Moore |
4:52 |
| 5 | River
Arranged By [Horns] – William Eaton |
5:00 |
| 6 | Conversation Love
Arranged By [Strings & Horns] – Don Sebesky |
3:38 |
| 7 |
When You Smile
Arranged By [Horns] – William Eaton |
3:42 |
| 8 | Suzanne
Arranged By [Strings] – Eumir Deodato |
9:45 |
- Roberta Flack – arranger, piano, vocals
- Deodato – conductor, string arrangements
- William Eaton – brass arrangement
- Alfred Ellis – brass arrangement, conductor
- Kermit Moore – arranger, cello
- Don Sebesky – conductor, horn arrangements, string arrangements
- Eric Gale – guitar
- Ron Carter – bass
- Grady Tate – drums
- Ralph MacDonald – congas, percussion, tambourine
