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# Title Principal Artiste Composers Lyricist / Date written Place Date recorded Matrix Label&cat.no. Additional Information
795 I've Got To Sing A Torch Song Ray Noble and His Orchestra Harry Warren Al Dubin `33 London July 5, 1933 OB-5015-1 HMV B-6375 Victor 24922 As above


I've Got To Sing A Torch Song
I've Got To Sing A Torch Song

I've Got To Sing A Torch Song

(Harry Warren / Al Dubin)

Ray Noble and His Orchestra


From the film "The Gold Diggers of 1933"

This Busby Berkeley extravaganza features the masterpiece, "My Forgotten Man" performed by the greats Joan Blondell and Etta Moten Barnett.

Must see. https://youtu.be/fznct7wfhj4

I've gotta sing a torch song
For that's the way I feel
When I feel a thing
That I can sing
It must be real

I couldn't sing a gay song
It wouldn't be sincere
I could never croon
A happy tune
Without a tear

I have my dreams, but one by one
They vanish in the sky
I try to smile and face the sun
But romances passes by.

I've gotta sing a torch song
To someone far apart
For the torch I bear
Is burning there
Right in my heart