Norman Gimbel

Songwriter Norman Gimbel scored his first major hit authoring lyrics for Toots Thielemans' 1961 tune "Bluesette"; he subsequently wrote the English-language adaptation of Antonio Carlos Jobim's classic "The Girl From Ipanema," also adapting compositions by Michel Legrand ("I Will Wait for You" and "Watch What Happens," both from Jacques Demy's celebrated film musical The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) and Marcus Valle ("Summer Samba "). With composer Charles Fox, Gimbel wrote "Killing Me Softly With His Song," a chart-topping hit for Roberta Flack in 1973 and an eventual winner of a ...