A couple of weeks ago I hauled out some old torch songs from the musty mausoleum. Here are a couple more. The definition again: "A torch song is a sentimental love song, typically one in which the singer laments an unrequited or lost love, where one party is either oblivious to the existence of the other, or where one party has moved on." (Wikipedia)
Gogi Grant, The Wayward Wind (1956). Made the #1 Billboard position. The tune has haunted me since I was six years old. Toni Fisher, The Big Hurt (1959). Made the Billboard #3 slot. The first verse hints at the origin of 'torch song':
Now it begins, now that you've gone
Needles and pins, twilight till dawn
Watching that clock till you return
Lighting that torch and watching it burn
Is this the first recording to use a phase shifter? Pretty far-out for the 'fifties. While we're on the topic of special effects, the first fuzz tone occurs as far as I know in Marty Robbins' Don't Worry About Me (1961).
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