Van Morrison & Tom Jones - Carrying a Torch

“Carrying a Torch“ was originally released on Van’s 1991 double album, Hymns to the Silence. Tom Jones covered the song on his album Carrying a Torch, which was named after this song. This version of the song was released as a single and charted at #57 in 1991 in the UK. This collaboration came about when Morrison showed his newly written song “Carrying a Torch“ to Jones, who was “so impressed that he invited Morrison to play on his new record“. Morrison wrote, played on and produced four tracks that ap