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torch songs
n. (torch song English)
Usage examples of "torch songs".
Up on stage a lounge band was backing a female impersonator belting out torch songs.
He had followed Betty Lewis, who sang torch songs and blues numbers accompanied by piano rolls and a deep decolletage and who always drew heavy applause when she took her bows.
Some sounded like big band music, torch songs, swingbut with more strings than brass.
Suddenly all he knew how to play was torch songs, and while she always praised them, she pointedly missed the point, yet somehow allowed him to keep his self-respect.
But his ex-wife's voice was low and sexy, suited to jazz and torch songs.
Every Saturday night the pre-op transsexual in the apartment below would get maudlin and play torch songs until four in the morning.