The film also features Henry Winkler, Common, Jason Alexander, Diane Warren, AJ Croce & more
Songwriter Charles Fox, known for “Killing Me Softly With His Song,” “I Got A Name,” and “Ready To Take A Chance Again,” is the subject of a new all-star documentary. Killing Me Softly With His Songs features appearances from Rita Wilson, Henry Winkler, Common, Barenaked Ladies, Jason Alexander, Diane Warren, AJ Croce, and more.
The film will premiere on Tuesday, April 2nd, and will be available on Apple TV, Prime Video, Vudu, Google Play, and YouTube.
Killing Me Softly With His Songs is a musical documentary about the life and work of composer Charles Fox, known for pop hits such as “Killing Me Softly With His Song,” “I Got A Name,” and “Ready To Take A Chance Again,” as well as iconic television show themes for Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, The Love Boat, and Wonder Woman. He is also the composer of numerous salsa records, which are so popular internationally that it is a safe bet that even as you read this, someone somewhere is dancing to a Charles Fox mambo or pachanga.
The film follows Fox’s life and career from the streets of the Bronx to his education at the Fontainebleau Music Conservatory near Paris where he studied with the legendary composition teacher Nadia Boulanger (who taught Aaron Copeland, Quincy Jones, Elliot Carter and Michel Legrand among many others), through his fabled career in Hollywood, and finally to Havana, Cuba where Fox “returns to his musical roots.”
All of this is interspersed with some of the most phenomenal live music will ever experience – shot with a particular emphasis on capturing the joyous interactions of gifted musicians having a ball together. Featuring Anne Sila (winner of French version of The Voice), Common (Academy Award-winning composer and performer), AJ Croce (son of the legendary Jim Croce, and a gifted artist in his own right), Henry Winkler (Happy Days, Barry), Paul Williams (Academy Award winning composer), Rita Wilson, Jason Alexander (Seinfeld, and Tony Award winner), Barenaked Ladies, Alexandre Desplat (two-time Academy award winner and Alain Boublil (Tony award winning composer known for Les Miserable and Miss Saigon), the film is joyous, funny, poignant and above all intimate.
Songwriter Hall of Fame inductee, composer, conductor and pianist, Charles Fox, composed the music for more than 100 films including the classics, Barbella, Nine to Five, and Goodbye Columbus, and many iconic TV series and their theme songs including Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, Love, American Style, Wonder Woman, and The Love Boat as well as Wide World of Sports and Monday Night Football themes.
Twice nominated for an Oscar and a two-time Emmy winner, Fox also wrote the Grammy Award-winning song, “Killing Me Softly” as well as Jim Croce’s, “I Got A Name” and Barry Manilow’s, “Ready To Take A Chance Again,” among other hits.
Fox has composed numerous symphonic concert and chamber music works as well as ballets for the San Francisco ballet, the Dance Theater of Harlem, and the Smuin ballet which recently premiered his, “Salsa ‘Til Dawn” and the forthcoming revival of his “Zorro” ballet.
Fox will be performing a concert of his music from the film at Vibrato Jazz Club on April 11th. His original manuscripts for his scores and songs are part of the permanent collection of the Charles Fox Letters in the Library of Congress.
