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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.
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.
Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) named it the third most performed song from 1940 to 1990. [4] The song was ranked number 20 on BMI's Top 100 Songs of the Century. [5] Frank Sinatra called it "the greatest torch song ever written." [6] It was No. 450 on Rolling Stone magazine's Top 500 Songs of All Time. [7]
Stacker compiled 20 hit songs between 1960 and today that were written by someone other than the singer, using various sources.
Sinatra would go on to praise "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" as "the greatest torch song ever written". [11] At the 1969 Grammy Awards, Webb accepted awards for "By the Time I Get to Phoenix", "Wichita Lineman", and "MacArthur Park". In 2019 "Wichita Lineman" was added to the National Recording Registry. [12]
"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.
"The Man That Got Away" is a torch song written for the 1954 version of A Star Is Born. The song, with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Ira Gershwin, is performed in the film by Judy Garland. "The Man That Got Away" was ranked #11 by the American Film Institute on the AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs list.
"Death by a Thousand Cuts" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift for her seventh studio album Lover (2019). Written and produced by Swift and Jack Antonoff, it serves as the tenth track of the album. It is a pop torch song with an upbeat production. Unlike the singer's previous break-up songs which were diaristic in the ...