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Jul 3, 2024 · Over 100 music fans have voted on the 20+ Best Torch Song Artists. Current Top 3: Ella Fitzgerald, Julie London, Billie Holiday
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- SKYLARK Hoagy Carmichael. 1 SKYLARK Hoagy Carmichael. This song represents an exotic sound that is totally American. The jazz chords in it are on the one hand beautiful, but also very sophisticated.
- SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW Judy Garland. I've had to sing this since I was five or six. I related to it in terms of being a person who was always dreaming and wanted to live in a more mystical place than Canada.
- NIGHT AND DAY Fred Astaire. There has never been a more elegant song. The way it's presented, with the intro talking about the ticking clock and then going into the song, immediately evokes a bygone era where people really knew how to dress and have a good time.
- MY FUNNY VALENTINE Ella Fitzgerald. I relate a lot to the words in that song, by the lyricist Lorenz Hart. There is a certain type of loneliness that I always pick up on in the lyrics, so that I identify with Hart himself.
A torch song is a sentimental love song, typically one in which the singer laments an unrequited or lost love, either where one party is oblivious to the existence of the other, where one party has moved on, or where a romantic affair has affected the relationship.
Sep 10, 2012 · Discover the best of the city, first. It's New York in 1971. Virginia Hamm wants a child, but the odds are stacked against her. She's single, given to emotionally masochistic relationships with...
Torch Song Trilogy. 120 minutes ‧ R ‧ 1988. Roger Ebert. December 23, 1988. 4 min read. “Torch Song Trilogy” opens with a closeup of Arnold, the hero, looking his very worst. He’s backstage at the drag club where he works as a female impersonator, and he’s halfway into his makeup.
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.
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Torch Song Trilogy: Directed by Paul Bogart. With Anne Bancroft, Matthew Broderick, Harvey Fierstein, Brian Kerwin. Arnold is a gay man working as drag queen in 1971 NYC.
