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Torch-singing is more of a niche than a genre and can stray from the traditional jazz-influenced style of singing; the American tradition of the torch song typically relies upon the melodic structure of the blues. [2] Examples of a collection are Billie Holiday's 1955 album Music for Torching and Entre eux deux by Melody Gardot and Philippe Powell.
This category is for torch songs. In the songs included here, the singers express their devotion or unrequited love for someone who does not return their love, has moved on to a new partner or whom the singers have taken for granted, hurt or otherwise mistreated.
The song itself, by Harold Arlen and Ira Gershwin, is the apotheosis of the torch song, and Garland kicks its drama up to frenzied intensity early on, as much with the searing pathos of her voice as with convulsive, angular gestures that look like an Expressionist painting come to life. [36]
"Torch" is a song by English synth-pop duo Soft Cell. It was released as a single in 1982, and in mid-June peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart , [ 1 ] ranking 45 for the year. It also reached number 31 on the Hot Dance Club Play chart, [ 2 ] number 12 in the Netherlands [ 3 ] and number 6 in the Flemish Ultratop 50 .
Torch Song Trilogy is a collection of three plays by Harvey Fierstein rendered in three acts: International Stud, Fugue in a Nursery, and Widows and Children First! The story centers on Arnold Beckoff, a Jewish homosexual, drag queen , and torch singer who lives in New York City in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Thomas S. Hischak, author of The Disney Song Encyclopedia, wrote that "When she Loved Me" is a "heart-tugging torch song" about losing a friend as opposed to losing a romantic interest. [45] However, Hischak said that the "simple but moving" song can also be interpreted as a love song out of context. [45]
"Stormy Weather" is a 1933 torch song written by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler. Ethel Waters first sang it at The Cotton Club night club in Harlem in 1933 and recorded it with the Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra under Brunswick Records that year, and in the same year it was sung in London by Elisabeth Welch and recorded by Frances Langford.
Torch Song, a 1993 made-for-television drama film; Torch Song, a 2024 film starring Carla Juri; Torch Song Trilogy, a 1982 play by Harvey Fierstein; Torch Song Trilogy, a 1988 film adaptation of the Harvey Fierstein play "Torch Song" (The New Batman Adventures), a 1998 episode of The New Batman Adventures