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"Killing Me Softly With His Song," as sung by Lauryn Hill, Roberta Flack, & Lori Lieberman

Strong Songs

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Lorie Lieberman's Genesis

Lorie Lieberman was just 19 years old when she recorded this song, and her story ties in with that contested backstory of the tune's Genesis. As Lieberman tells it, and as Fox and Gimble, the credited songwriters also told it back in the 1970s, Lieberman attended a Don McLean show at the Troubadour in LA. "There's this certain logical, beautiful timelessness to the composition of this song," says Lenny Kravitz.

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