torch song

"I was sick of torch songs," she once said in an interview.

Music ranges from opera to torch songs to Top 40.

It turns out torch songs are all the firepower she needs.

Frank Sinatra called it "the greatest torch song ever written."

It all has the makings of a torch song that comes to tears in the end.

"And at the same time, it's this classic torch song that talks about love like a crime scene."

All these torch songs are about obsessive-compulsive nymphos or something.

And, as if that were not distinction enough, the organizers claim another apparent first: an official torch song.

Washington was well known for singing torch songs.

She turned it into a torch song, a change from the swing arrangements that Sinatra and others employed.

Initially he focused on singing parodies of popular torch songs.

There is no truth to his torch songs - he was a child serenading a chocolate bar.

But as a singer she can handle anything from torch songs and blues to ballads.

She switched to torch songs, which she still sings at parties and for friends.

Mother and daughter each favor torch songs fraught with romantic angst.

During that time she switched from torch songs to folk songs.

It is the reverse of the classical torch song".

He had thick, coarse hair, ruddy skin, an ear for torch songs.

She then tried old-fashioned western swing and torch songs on albums in 1993 and 1995.

"My Man," for instance, is performed as a wrenching torch song, without a trace of irony.

There is a certain experience of love and loss at the heart of any torch song that eludes a 6-year-old.

Vera sings a torch song about her past.

I could imagine wearing it while belting out a torch song atop a grand piano.

He is composing torch songs for her and hopes to set some of her poems to music.

"Torch Song" appeared on Broadway in 1982, before the public had become widely aware of the disease.