"I was sick of torch songs," she once said in an interview.

Music ranges from opera to torch songs to Top 40.

It turns out torch songs are all the firepower she needs.

Frank Sinatra called it "the greatest torch song ever written."

"And at the same time, it's this classic torch song that talks about love like a crime scene."

It all has the makings of a torch song that comes to tears in the end.

There is no truth to his torch songs - he was a child serenading a chocolate bar.

And, as if that were not distinction enough, the organizers claim another apparent first: an official torch song.

She turned it into a torch song, a change from the swing arrangements that Sinatra and others employed.

All these torch songs are about obsessive-compulsive nymphos or something.