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#1

Best 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

#2

re: Best torch songs

Posted: 1/1/05 at 6:36pm

"Losing My Mind" from FOLLIES.

("Wicked Little Town" from HEDWIG, too, if it counts.)

BlueWizard's blog: The Rambling Corner HEDWIG: "The road is my home. In reflecting upon the people whom I have come upon in my travels, I cannot help but think of the people who have come upon me."

#3

re: Best torch songs

Posted: 1/1/05 at 6:37pm

"Maybe This Time" Caberat

#4

re: 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."

#5

re: Best torch songs

Posted: 1/1/05 at 6:54pm

I 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."

#6

re: Best torch songs

Posted: 1/1/05 at 6:59pm

Oh! 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!

#7

re: Best torch songs

Posted: 1/1/05 at 7:45pm

Maybe 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!

#8

re: Best torch songs

Posted: 1/1/05 at 8:05pm

I think it counts.

Praying Decca Broadway will put "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" on CD!

#9

re: Best torch songs

Posted: 1/1/05 at 8:09pm

You Should Be Loved from Side Show

#10

re: 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??)

#11

re: 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.

#12

re: 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!"

#13

re: Best torch songs

Posted: 1/2/05 at 3:57pm

Would "I Don't Care Much" count?
"Goodbye, Love" too.

A work of art is an invitation to love.

#14

re: 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.....

#15

re: 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.

#16

re: Best torch songs

Posted: 1/2/05 at 7:39pm

"So in Love" from Kiss Me, Kate

#17

re: Best torch songs

Posted: 1/2/05 at 7:41pm

Damn, 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.

#18

re: Best torch songs

Posted: 1/2/05 at 7:42pm

Deep In The Night - Inner City

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#19

re: Best torch songs

Posted: 1/2/05 at 7:46pm

With Every Breath I Take... best torch song ever!

Faced with these Loreleis, what man can moralize!

#20

re: 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?!?!"

#21

re: 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

#22

re: 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.

#23

re: 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)

"Grease," the fourth revival of the season, is the worst show in the history of theater and represents an unparalleled assault on Western civilization and its values. - Michael Reidel

#24

re: 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!

#25

re: 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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