{"id":14297,"date":"2026-07-25T16:23:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T23:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/?p=14297"},"modified":"2026-07-25T16:25:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T23:25:34","slug":"sentimental-saturday-night-at-the-oldies-torch-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2026\/07\/25\/sentimental-saturday-night-at-the-oldies-torch-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Sentimental Saturday Night at the Oldies: Torch Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“A\u00a0torch song<\/strong>\u00a0is 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)<\/p>\n

Sarah Vaughn,\u00a0Broken Hearted Melody<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 YouTuber comment: “Late 1959. I was in 4th grade, listening to KFWB Los Angeles.”\u00a0 Same here. Same year, same grade, same station, KFWB, Channel 98! Color Radio! ‘Color Radio!’ as part of their promo was not a racial reference but an allusion to the fact that color TV had recently become available.<\/span><\/p>\n

My favorite deejay was\u00a0B. Mitchel Reed<\/a>.\u00a0 I learned ‘semolian’ and the Yiddish ‘mishigas’ from him. His real surname is ‘<\/span>Goldberg,’ which means\u00a0mountain of gold<\/em>. I will say no more lest, at this time of resurgent anti-semitism, ‘thanks’ to the despicable Democrats,\u00a0 I ‘trigger’ any anti- or philo-semites that might be hanging around. It’s Saturday night, friends.\u00a0 Let’s forget about this political Scheissdreck<\/em> for a few hours.\u00a0 Tomorrow’s another day. I now take a sip of my Jack & Coke and slide into some Boomer nostalgia.<\/span><\/p>\n

Timi Yuro,\u00a0Hurt.\u00a0<\/a>When I first heard this I was sure\u00a0she<\/a>\u00a0was black. I was wrong. She’s Italian, and her real name is Rosemarie Timotea Auro. What pipes!<\/p>\n

Billie Holliday,\u00a0The Very Thought of You<\/a><\/p>\n

Roy Orbison,\u00a0In Dreams<\/a><\/p>\n

Peggy Lee,\u00a0Oh You Crazy Moon<\/a><\/p>\n

Ketty Lester,\u00a0Love Letters<\/a><\/p>\n

Etta James,\u00a0At Last<\/a>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Lenny Welch,\u00a0Since I Fell for You<\/a><\/p>\n

Sentimental you say? What would life be without sentiment? You say it’s overdone? You suffer from an excess of cool. It’s Saturday night, punch the clock, pour yourself a stiff one, and\u00a0feel<\/em>. Tonight we feel, tomorrow we think.\u00a0 About sentimentality and everything else under the sun.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“A\u00a0torch song\u00a0is 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) Sarah Vaughn,\u00a0Broken Hearted Melody.\u00a0\u00a0 YouTuber comment: “Late 1959. I was in 4th grade, listening to KFWB Los … Continue reading “Sentimental Saturday Night at the Oldies: Torch Songs”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14297","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=14297"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14300,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14297\/revisions\/14300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}