Torch (Carly Simon album)

Infobox Album
Name = Torch
Type = studio
Artist = Carly Simon


Released = August 1, 1981
Recorded = at Power Station Studios, New York City
Genre = Standards
Length = 35:02
Label = Warner Bros.
Producer = Mike Mainieri
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:d9foxqy5ldte link]
Last album = "Come Upstairs"
(1980)
This album = "Torch"
(1981)
Next album = "Hello Big Man"
(1983)

"Torch" is singer-songwriter Carly Simon's 11th album, her 10th studio album, and her first album devoted to standards, mostly old torch songs, relating unrequited love or rejection. And included one memorable Simon original "From The Heart" The album was released in 1981.

Track listing

# "Blue Of Blue" (Nicholas Holmes, additional lyrics by Carly Simon) — 3:38
# "I'll Be Around" (Alec Wilder) — 2:30
# "I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good" (Duke Ellington, P.F. Webster) — 3:46
# "I Get Along Without You Very Well" (Hoagy Carmichael) — 3:23
# "Body And Soul" (Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton, Johnny Green) — 4:12
# "Hurt" (Jimmie Crane, Al Jacobs) — 3:21
# "From The Heart" (Carly Simon) — 2:47
# "Spring Is Here" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) — 3:02
# "Pretty Strange" (Jon Hendricks, Randy Weston) — 2:59
# "What Shall We Do With The Child" (Nicholas Holmes, Kate Horsey, additional lyrics by Carly Simon) — 2:44
# "Not A Day Goes By" (from the Broadway show "Merrily We Roll Along") (Stephen Sondheim) — 2:40

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)