KILLING ME SOFTLY WITH HER
PERRY COMO
SONGWRITERS: CHARLES FOX;
NORMAN GIMBEL & LORI LIEBERMAN
COUNTRY: U.S.A.
ALBUM: "AND I LOVE YOU SO"
LABEL: RCA RECORDS
GENRE: MAMBO
YEAR: 1973
And I
Love You So was Perry Como's 21st 12" long-play album released by RCA
Records.
As with It's
Impossible, this album was issued to feature a surprise hit single, Don McLean’s
"And I Love You So". Como brought the song to the national top 40 (Number One Easy
Listening). Previous versions of the song by Bobby Goldsboro and Bobby
Vinton had met with mild or no success. Como's version was so successful, RCA asked him to record
the song in Spanish. When Como said he didn't speak
the language, he received personal Spanish lessons from the head of RCA
International to get the record made. As in recent Como LP's, this collection
features selections from then contemporary recording artists such as Roberta
Flack, The Carpenters, Ray Price, Tony Orlando and Dawn, Bread and Mac Davis. The album was among the last to
be produced by Atkins before he stepped down from his executive position with
RCA Nashville.
I heard she sang a good song, I heard she had a style
And so I came to see her and listen for a while
And there she was this young girl, a stranger to my
eyes
Strumming my pain with her fingers
Singing my life with her words
Killing me softly with her song
Killing me softly with her song
Telling my whole life with her words
Killing me softly with her song
I felt all flushed with fever, embarrassed by the
crowd
I felt she found my letters and read each one out loud
I prayed that she would finish but she just kept right
on
Strumming my pain with her fingers
Singing my life with her words
Killing me softly with her song
Killing me softly with her song
Telling my whole life with her words
Killing me softly with her song
She sang as if she knew me in all my dark despair
And then she looked right through me as if I wasn't
there
But she was there, the stranger, singing clear and
strong
Strumming my pain with her fingers
Singing my life with her words
Killing me softly with her song
Killing me softly with her song
Telling my whole life with her words
Killing me softly with her song.