Ok, List your top 3... (why the heck did I say 3?)

Edith Piaf - La Vie en Rose




Billie Holiday - Solitude




Sarah Vaughan - Black Coffee

Those three would be up there but seeing as you've already mentioned them, here are some more contemporary examples.

Sam Smith -Not In That Way




George Michael - One More Try




Perfume Genius - No Tear

No Citroen,

Thats Torch songs as a category, NOT music for bedwetters

To add to the first 3:

Julie London, Cry me a river

Patsy Cline, Crazy

Ells Fitzgerald, someone to watch over me.

"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."

Layla would have to be the most well known torch song although this is my favourite song on the album, hauntingly beautiful.



Joe Jackson does another favourite.

So agree harvey: Layla +1


Mine:



(imho, this acoustic version is just magical)

"I see music as a lifetime affair." [Rory Gallagher]

Oh, and I can't overlook this fav...

"I see music as a lifetime affair." [Rory Gallagher]

Rosanne Cash/Rodney Crowell- On the Surface



John Martyn- Baby Please Come Home

and my 3rd:

"I see music as a lifetime affair." [Rory Gallagher]