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Lori Lieberman published this song, but Roberta Flack made an immortal world hit out of it. She heard it on an American Airlines flight to Los Angeles. The airline played this and other mellow songs during boarding, takeoff and landing to put passengers in a relaxed mood. Whether a lyric like "... killing me softly ... " is the right text for an airplane trip, is a moot point. But Roberta was so enthusiastic about the song that she immediately told her producer Charles Fox about it and convinced him to record the song with her. And the success proved her right.