Charles Fox (b. 1940) & Norman Gimbel (1927–2018) · American songwriters
Charles Fox wrote the music and Norman Gimbel the lyrics for ‘Killing Me Softly with His Song’, and the pair won the 1973 Grammy for Song of the Year. They are the figures the fame obscures on the authorship side — neither a performer nor a household name — and their partnership is also the source of a long dispute over how much credit Lori Lieberman was owed for the idea behind the lyric.