"Body and Soul" — the greatest torch song, Sinatra inhabiting it completely.
My heart is sad and lonely
For you I sigh, for you dear only
Why haven't you seen it
I'm all for you body and soul
I spend my days in longing
And wondering why it's me you're (ogling)
I tell you I mean it
I'm all for you body and soul
I can't believe it
It's hard to conceive it
That you'd turn away romance
Are you pretending
It looks like the ending
Unless I could have just one more chance to prove, dear
My life a wreck you're making
You know I'm yours for the very taking
I'd gladly surrender myself to you body and soul
My life a wreck you're making
You know I'm yours for the very taking
I'd gladly surrender myself to you body and soul
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- Written by Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, and Frank Eyton in 1930. The benchmark by which all torch singing is measured — Coleman Hawkins' 1939 instrumental version is jazz history; Sinatra's vocal version is equally definitive.