Best torch songs
Best torch songs
#0Best torch songs
Posted: 1/1/05 at 6:31pm
What are your favorite torch songs? You know, songs were people lament about a lost love, "My lover done me wrong, but I still love him/her", or "Where did my lover go?" songs. In short, a song where the singer "holds a torch" for someone. My picks:
Fanny Brice's "My Man" from ZIEGFELD FOLLIES
"Bill" from SHOW BOAT
"Goodbye, Love" from RENT
"Lover, Come Back to Me" from THE NEW MOON
"But Not for Me" from GIRL CRAZY and CRAZY FOR YOU
"Where Has My Hubby Gone Blues" from NO, NO, NANETTE
BONUS: My favorite ANTI-torch song is "Men" from LORELEI. Carol Channing was absolutely HILARIOUS!
Praying Decca Broadway will put "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" on CD!
Updated On: 1/1/05 at 06:31 PM
#1re: Best torch songs
Posted: 1/1/05 at 6:36pm
"Losing My Mind" from FOLLIES.
("Wicked Little Town" from HEDWIG, too, if it counts.)
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broadwaystar2b
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/28/04
Sporti2005
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/04
#3re: Best torch songs
Posted: 1/1/05 at 6:48pm
"stormy weather" oooh i love that song
and "come to your senses" from tick,tick...boom!
"grace, you're stuffed in a box getting rid of ass plaque. let's face it, this evening is a bust."
#4re: Best torch songs
Posted: 1/1/05 at 6:54pmI second "Stormy Weather," and I'd add "My Man's Gone Now" from Porgy and Bess. And also "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning."
#5re: Best torch songs
Posted: 1/1/05 at 6:59pmOh! I forgot "Dear Friend" from SHE LOVES ME and "Always, Always You" from CARNIVAL
Praying Decca Broadway will put "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" on CD!
#6re: Best torch songs
Posted: 1/1/05 at 7:45pmMaybe this time- cabaret and does i'll cover you reprise from rent count?
"At the opening night party, they had clowns on stilts, jugglers, a chocolate fountain, popcorn, hot dogs. [My son] looked at me like I had been holding back. Like, 'This is what you do?' I had to tell him, 'No, no, darling. Opening nights don't usually look like this.' It's usually a dark bar with a bottle of vodka." ?Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's Jan Maxwell
plus i proudly share the title of the shortest member over the age of 10 with wickedrentq!
#7re: Best torch songs
Posted: 1/1/05 at 8:05pmI think it counts.
Praying Decca Broadway will put "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" on CD!
Mattio98
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/10/03
Sant
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/12/04
#9re: Best torch songs
Posted: 1/2/05 at 3:51pm
BILL from Show Boat
I DREAMED A DREAM from Les Mis
I DON'T KNOW HOW TO LOVE HIM from JCS (does this one count??)
#10re: Best torch songs
Posted: 1/2/05 at 3:55pm
Losing My Mind~Follies
Send in the Clowns~A Little Night Music
Johanna~Sweeney Todd
Unworthy of Your Love~Assassins
"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
#11re: Best torch songs
Posted: 1/2/05 at 3:56pm"With Every Breath I Take" - City of Angles
"Smart! And into all those exotic mystiques -- The Kama Sutra and Chinese techniques. I hear she knows more than seventy-five. Call me tomorrow if you're still alive!"
#12re: Best torch songs
Posted: 1/2/05 at 3:57pm
Would "I Don't Care Much" count?
"Goodbye, Love" too.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#13re: Best torch songs
Posted: 1/2/05 at 7:25pm"Not a Day Goes By" from Merrily We Roll Along and "Losing My Mind" from Follies....God that man knows heartbreak.....
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#14re: Best torch songs
Posted: 1/2/05 at 7:35pm"On my Own" from Les Mis is a good one that hasn't been mentioned. But also, a love for friends is present in "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables" also from les mis.
jmnpublications
Broadway Star Joined: 4/2/04
#16re: Best torch songs
Posted: 1/2/05 at 7:41pmDamn, how did I forget 'Not A Day Goes By'?
"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#18re: Best torch songs
Posted: 1/2/05 at 7:46pmWith Every Breath I Take... best torch song ever!
Faced with these Loreleis, what man can moralize!
MasterLcZ
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/12/03
#19re: Best torch songs
Posted: 1/2/05 at 7:54pm
These are from Broadway, Hollywood etc.
"Time Heals Everything" - MACK & MABEL
"The Music That Makes Me Dance" - FUNNY GIRL
"Too Late Now" - ROYAL WEDDING (this song is like a knife in my heart whenever I hear it, its so beautiful and sad...and when the singer is Nancy LaMott, it rips my entrails out as well)
"You Don't Know What Love Is" (Don Raye-Gene DePaul)
"I Must Have That Man" (on Audras 'Happy Songs' CD)
"I'm A Fool to Want You"
"Ill Wind"
"I Had Myself A True Love" (lots of Harold Arlen here)
"You Gave Me Everything But Love"
"I Got it Bad and That Aint Good"
"Buds Won't Bud"
"I Wish I Didn't Love You So" - PERILS OF PAULINE
"I Wish I Knew" - DIAMOND HORSESHOE
"Little Girl Blue" - JUMBO
"Christ, Bette Davis?!?!"
reaching4stars
Swing Joined: 12/15/04
#20re: Best torch songs
Posted: 1/2/05 at 11:02pm
MasterLcZ~Good taste my friend!!
"I Must Have that Man" and "Tess' Torch Song" (from Audra's Happy songs)
"Autumn Leaves"
"Not a Day Goes By"
"Your Daddy's Son" (I think it counts...what total heartbreak)
"So in Love"
"I Had Myself a True Love"
"unusual way"
"Losing my Mind"
Updated On: 1/2/05 at 11:02 PM
Dextrous Existence
Featured Actor Joined: 1/2/05
#21re: Best torch songs
Posted: 1/2/05 at 11:07pm
"Jimmy" - Thoroughly Modern Millie.
"Apology to a Cow" - Bat Boy.
"The More You Ruv Someone" - Avenue Q.
jonartdesigns
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/04
#22re: Best torch songs
Posted: 1/3/05 at 1:02am
the more you ruv someone
to sing- johanna, if i can't love her(beauty and the beast)
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VeuveClicquot
Broadway Star Joined: 11/2/04
#23re: Best torch songs
Posted: 1/3/05 at 1:10am
I've always thought that the quintessential "torch song" was "Black Coffee."
"I'm mooning all the morning,
and mourning all the night.
And in between it's nicotine
and not much heart to fight black coffee."
What a lyric!
#24re: Best torch songs
Posted: 1/3/05 at 1:39am
I agree with Veuve -- Black Coffee is murder!
I also agree with MasterLcZ, "Too Late Now" is such a delicate and heart-felt torch song. "Time Heals Everything" hurts!
I add:
The Man That Got Away
This Time The Dream's On Me
Last Night When We Were Young (this song is just mean! - it's so sad)
"ubiquitous"
Updated On: 1/3/05 at 01:39 AM
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