Torch Songs?
Torch Songs?
#0Torch Songs?
Posted: 12/31/05 at 6:23pmI've heard of people singing 'torch songs' but I have to admit that I have absolutely no idea what a torch song is. Could someone fill me in? Thanks!
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#1re: Torch Songs?
Posted: 12/31/05 at 6:27pma song sung at a club or cabaret, usually on top of a piano.
whimsical
Stand-by Joined: 5/30/04
#3re: Torch Songs?
Posted: 12/31/05 at 6:59pm
Usually female...wailing out an emotional song about how some man left her, or she wants her man, or where did her man go, won't he please come back (she's "holding a torch" for someone, see?). A lament for a lost love.
Updated On: 12/31/05 at 06:59 PM
#4re: Torch Songs?
Posted: 12/31/05 at 11:18pmLiza singing "It's the strangest thing" from "The Act"
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#5re: Torch Songs?
Posted: 12/31/05 at 11:54pm"What Did I Have That I Don't Have?" from ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER. Barbara Harris' version on the Original Broadway Cast Recording is terrific!
Paul LW
Featured Actor Joined: 6/17/04
#6re: Torch Songs?
Posted: 1/1/06 at 2:45pm
Where a song is sung, on top of a piano or at a cabaret, has nothing to do with whether it's a torch song or not.
It's a song (usually female) singing for unrequited love, a lost love, someone who is not there...this goes back to when men would go off to war and women would light a candle in the window for them (Candle in the Window?, anyone?)
That is a torch song.
#7re: Torch Songs?
Posted: 1/1/06 at 3:05pmThe Man that Got Away is a good example. Judy sings about how her man left her and she mises him, etc.
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