{"id":11585,"date":"2010-05-22T20:03:10","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T20:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/05\/22\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-three-more-torch-songs\/"},"modified":"2010-05-22T20:03:10","modified_gmt":"2010-05-22T20:03:10","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-three-more-torch-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/05\/22\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-three-more-torch-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Three More Torch Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">A couple of weeks ago <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2010\/05\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-torch-songs.html\"><font face=\"Georgia\">I hauled out<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\"> some old torch songs from the musty mausoleum. Here are a couple more.&#0160; The definition again: &quot;A <strong>torch song<\/strong> 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.&quot; (Wikipedia)<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Gogi Grant, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SFhwxZeq6g4\">The Wayward Wind<\/a> (1956).&#0160; Made the #1 Billboard position.&#0160; The tune has haunted me since I was six years old.&#0160; Toni Fisher, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FuHcIWBtn4g\">The Big Hurt<\/a> (1959).&#0160; Made the Billboard #3 slot.&#0160; The first verse hints at the origin of &#39;torch song&#39;:<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font color=\"#444433\" face=\"Verdana\">Now it begins, now that you&#39;ve gone<br \/>Needles and pins, twilight till dawn<br \/>Watching that clock till you return<br \/>Lighting that torch and watching it burn<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Is this the first recording to use a phase shifter?&#0160; Pretty far-out for the &#39;fifties.&#0160; While we&#39;re on the topic of special effects, the first fuzz tone occurs as far as I know in Marty Robbins&#39; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LzAPnz8uurg\">Don&#39;t Worry About Me<\/a> (1961).<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\"><\/font>&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago I hauled out some old torch songs from the musty mausoleum. Here are a couple more.&#0160; The definition again: &quot;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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/05\/22\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-three-more-torch-songs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Saturday Night at the Oldies: Three More Torch Songs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}