Killing Me Softly's Stolen Songwriter Credit | The Breakdown with Dara Starr Tucker

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For years, it was understood that Lori Lieberman's poem about Don McClean was the inspiration behind the iconic ballad, "Killing Me Softly." Until it wasn't. Here's the story of how the person whose writing was the foundation for this Grammy-winning song was edged out of a writing credit, and later, denied any acknowledgement of her work being the inspiration for the classic Roberta Flack hit at all.
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@joannaatkins822 Год назад

I'm consistently floored by your extremely high production quality, passion, and research. This is a tragic tale well told, and the story of this song will stick with me forever. Thank you

@DaraStarrTucker Год назад

🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

@philipcone357 Год назад

Back in the 70’s Casey Casem on America’s Top Forty told Lori’s story about seeing Don McLean and writing Killing Me Softly on a napkin.

@philippawallace-dunlop5582 9 часов назад

There are shameless thieves, narcissists & misogynists all over. As well as weak leaches that don’t speak up for the truth. It’s shameful each & every time. Thank you for clarifying the truth of Laurie Lieberman’s legacy, it’s important

@haileybalmer9722 2 месяца назад

Two things: 1) good on Don McLean for speaking up and refusing to back down. 2) this is literally exactly what the song “You’re So Vain” is about. Svengalis.

@KarinLynnBates Год назад

Thank you for the in-depth story. Misogyny is still alive and well, but the stories from only 40-50 years old are so disheartening. Thank you for sharing the real story. I am impressed with Don McLean, though. He sure came through with that article! 👍🏼👍🏼

@bobdavis4848 Год назад

Hello Ms. Starr Tucker! This was a really great feature with lots of impressive research on the longest running Billboard pop #1 song of 1973, the great “Killing Me Softly With His Song.” I am glad that Ms. Roberta Flack took Ms. Lieberman’s side, too. I think an enormous number of young female actresses and other professions, as well as musicians and singer songwriters, are exploited by men in the industry. You are great to have helped Ms. Lieberman out this way! Yesterday by coincidence I found and bought the 8-track tape of her first album “Lori Lieberman.” As was common in those days, the 8-track tape did not list songwriting credits or musicians. (Lyrics? Forget it.) But I believe you about her only being credited for writing one song on the album on the vinyl album. The “A Thousand Dreams” album mentioned in the Charles Fox interview was released in 1995; it seems odd they were discussing in the early 1970s putting a song on an album from over two decades later. Could you please correct the spelling of Don McLean’s last name in the caption's first line and in the graphic at 8:46? Thank you and have a great weekend!

@MaxineShaw_84 Год назад

You're such an incredible storyteller. Always balanced and objective. I so relate to Lori's naiveté in the music industry. I also accepted that I had no recourse once releases found some success since I failed to set myself up properly from the start to receive credit for features, writing, and vocal production. When you're that young & inexperienced, you let all kinds of things fly so as to not disrupt the flow of creativity. I saw you tagged her on IG. I hope she sees what an amazing job you've done recounting the true order of events. 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

@DaraStarrTucker Год назад

Thank you so much. 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾 I had the chance to talk to her yesterday for my podcast. She’s a lovely woman. Looking forward to releasing it.

@MaxineShaw_84 Год назад

@@DaraStarrTucker How exciting! Just followed you on Spotify and look forward to you becoming part of my gardening soundtrack. Have a great one.

@MissinginMiami Год назад

Damn 😢 Thank you Lori ❤️

@apinyakesawat7560 3 дня назад

Beautiful song, Beautiful story, Thank you.

@richardhoff1626 4 месяца назад

Great video. I read a book once that said it was about "Vincent" (Starry, Starry, Night). So this also clears that up (The book made some other claims that also turned out to be wrong and were proven so in this day of the interweb).

@the_phuckery_is_real7252 4 месяца назад

I grew up with Roberta's version but Lauren Hill's version will always be my favorite❤️ Ty for the background but man do I feel old recognizing most of the music in your video 😄

@charliefielding2297 Год назад

This was beautiful to learn about. Despite the betrayal of it all, the underlying connection of artists inspiring artists inspiring artists is a truly wonderful story.

@MARCIE12ification Год назад

Those mens are sick.

@thomasboardman7482 4 месяца назад

Thank you for the truth. I have loved this song since I first heard it in 1973. It is so important the we all get credit for what we have accomplished in our lives. Again, thank you for giving credit where credit is due.

@srdjr6760 Год назад

Another great and informative video! Thank you so much for making them.

@jillsalkin7389 7 месяцев назад

Hi Dara. What an interesting story about a song that live on! I'm a singer and songwriter in Philly. Recently met you at the Ways, near Philly. Enjoyed your singing!

@valsoreno2110 6 месяцев назад

Thank you, nice report.

@HomeAtLast501 Год назад

Flack's version of "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" is one of the most moving ballads I've ever heard.

@bobcameron5567 4 месяца назад

What a couple of gangsters....not even succumbing to allow someone to take kudos and pleasure from writing a classic song. The music business has been full of these bottom feeders for eternity. Full praise to you Lori.......you should be compensated financially, you already have the ownership of the song in my eyes, it wouldn't exist if not for you.

@BobbieHarris-fz1us 8 месяцев назад

Fantastic Investigative Reporting! Great Job!

@battlegirldeb Год назад

Hi, I'm a little late getting here. I saw one of your videos for the first time before the 7/4/23 and became a new Sub. Love your content. Until I saw another video about cover songs, I didn't know that Roberta wasn't the first person to sing this song.

@Scooterboi60 10 месяцев назад

Thank you Dara for this story.

@valsoreno2110 6 месяцев назад

It happened with the Beatles as well.

@srdjr6760 Год назад

I never cared for Roberta Flack's version when I was a kid (and her version was a new release). Then I heard the Fugee's version and loved it (The Score is on of my favorite albums of all time). I now appreciate Roberta Flack's version and feel that I should support a fellow DMVer.

@irvingizzyredman 25 дней назад

This is Lori singing beautifully on the Mike Douglas show a year after she released her version of "Killing Me Softly". The one song she had written till this point in her life-- according to her, here on this clip-- is "My Lover Do You know" which was on her first album. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cTyGLBANuOg.html

@chocolatequeen5953 Год назад

They were wicked but yet they kept on prospering and live to a old age ! I just don’t understand why Karma don’t ever find some evil people’s address ! Hmm 🙄

@richardhoff1626 4 месяца назад

Nice Don McClean. Game, Set, and Match.

@dude6519 5 месяцев назад

What is an incredible song 'killing me softly'

@blasdominguez3909 2 месяца назад

Makes me wonder how many songs they may have stolen from other struggling song writers

@michaelcollins3313 Месяц назад

When Taylor Swift says the most important thing to have in the music business is a good lawyer, and a friend who is a Dove Award winner echos that view by saying how many "snakes in the grass" there are in Christian music, I'm not surprised that a talented but young Lori Lieberman got shafted.

@mizdawi Год назад

Wow...

@DaraStarrTucker Год назад

❤️

@SabrinaSterlingGA Год назад

BOOM!!

@tuguybear930 21 день назад

Artists like Lori do get ripped off. Those so called men should be ashamed of themselves.

@srdjr6760 Год назад

Norman Gimble should be ashamed of himself for both taking advantage of Lori and for writing that crappy Happy Days theme song. Happy Days should have stick with Rock around the Clock (and kept Fonzie as a secondary character).

@bobdavis4848 Год назад

Happy Days was initially set in the mid-1950s, but progressed and ended up set the early 1960s as the characters aged. So it would not have made sense to stick with "Rock Around The Clock" all through the seasons.

@srdjr6760 Год назад

@@bobdavis4848 Happy Days switched theme songs after season two, when they were still in the fifties. Regardless, the theme song sucked.

@bobdavis4848 Год назад

@@srdjr6760Ms. Lieberman's exploiter Norman Gimbel can't feel shame or anything else anymore, since he is deceased. If Ms. Lieberman's supporters such as ourselves misspell Gimbel's last name, we set ourselves up for the people who feel opposite to say something like "Gimbel / Fox are great and Lieberman's not, because (some nonsense) and look, this guy can't even spell Norman's last name correctly" to try to delegitimize our support of Ms. Lieberman. I'm not the biggest fan of the latter "Happy Days" theme, but many people must have liked it, because they kept it for many years. I'd never declare my own rare personal music dislikes as if they was absolute undebatable fact, with a term my deceased parents thought was crude, or any other insult. I believe everyone has a right to their own musical tastes, likes and dislikes. I like most music and I've enjoyed buying more of Ms. Lieberman's 1970s albums recently from a collector's shop. The Arthur Fonzarelli character got a bigger role because of his popularity, catchphrases, appearance, attitude and so on, and the Chuck character was dropped for kind of the opposite. I admire Ron Howard for standing his ground and saying he'd quit if they changed the name of the show to "Fonzie's Happy Days." I think that would have made the whole family seem way too secondary. I know when the show changed theme song; I saw shows from each season. I said it wouldn't have made sense to keep "Rock Around The Clock" "all through the seasons." Have a nice day and stay safe.