MY TORMENTED HEART

(Enrico Toselli (m) 1900)

As sung by Sarah Vaughan July 28 1952 (mono)
 'Complete Jazz Series' (album released June 2009)

Also sung by:
Beniamino Gigli 1926
Mario Lanza
Fernando de Lucia
Richard Tauber
Rudolf Schlock
José Carreras
Alfredo Krauss
Ernest Revell
Ronald Naldi
Frank Chacksfield
Perry Como
And many many others…


My tormented heart
Cries out I still love you
Though I know you're gone
Your love lives on to haunt my memory.

My tormented heart
Will never forget you
Though you said goodbye
My heart and I refused to let you free.

At the close of every day
All alone I kneel and pray
That some day you will realize
That we wrong to part.

Then maybe you'll return
And dry these tears that burn
In my tormented heart.

(bridge)

At the close of every day
All alone I kneel and pray
That some day you will realize
That we wrong to part.

Then maybe you'll return
And dry these tears that burn
In my tormented heart.


NOTES:

Enrico Toselli (1883 -1926) was an Italian concert pianist and composer.

By far, the most well known of his songs was popularly referred to as
Toselli's Serenade. It's also known as 'Rimpianto' or Serenata
'Rimpianto' or more commonly the 'Regret' Serenade. He also wrote 2
operettas (1912 and 1913) as well as tone poems.

There are several sets of lyrics that have been adapted to fit Toselli's
very popular piece. The artists above may not have sung the exact same
lyrics as Vaughan but the music is generally true to the original.

A host of the world's most famous tenors recorded this piece of music over
the years.

Sarah Vaughn, an American jazz singer who performed professionally from
1945 to 1990, was nicknamed 'Sassy' because of her rather informal
speech and manner.




(Transcribed by David Story- April 2014)