I couldn’t resist using the title of this post this week. I knew it had to be a three-song post at week’s end. Fortunately, there are plent...

Driver Quartet: A Long Way Down [out of print] I've written about Driver Quartet before , but when I saw what this week's theme was...

image by Roy Lichtenstein, 1963 Karrin Allyson : You Don't Know What Love Is [ purchase ] John Coltrane : You Don't Know What Lo...

James Jackson Toth : Beulah the Good [ purchase ] I've wanted to post this song for quite sometime now but have been patiently wait...

Sinead O'Connor: Nothing Compares 2 U [ Purchase ] These days torch songs don't often make the charts, or at least the ones that so...

Jessica Rabbit (sung by Amy Irving) : Why Don‘t You Do Right [ purchase ] As we have seen this week already, “torch song” is a slippery...

The Four Tops : Standing in the Shadows of Love [ purchase ] Smokey Robinson and the Miracles : The Tracks of my Tears [ purchase ] Th...

Lou Reed : One For My Baby (And One More For The Road) [ purchase ] From the album simply entitled Duets, Lou Reed and bassist Rob Wass...

Patsy Cline : Faded Love [ purchase ] One of the most influential singers to ever come out of the Nashville sound was Patsy Cline (Virg...

Chris Isaak : Wicked Game [ purchase ] As we move through our new theme, it would help to have a definition of the term “torch song”. ...

Peggy Lee: Don't Smoke In Bed [ purchase ] Susan had originally planned on posting a different version of Don't Smoke In Bed this w...