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Organito de la tarde · Florindo Sassone · 1959

Music by Cátulo Castillo, lyrics by José González Castillo. 17 recordings in our catalogue, 1925–2003.
1925: 1 · danced 0 times1927: 1 · danced 1 times1942: 1 · danced 85 times1947: 1 · danced 0 times1950: 1 · danced 0 times1951: 2 · danced 0 times1954: 1 · danced 2 times1956: 1 · danced 1 times1959: 1 · danced 0 times1960: 1 · danced 1 times1961: 1 · danced 0 times1967: 1 · danced 0 times1968: 1 · danced 0 times1970: 1 · danced 0 times2002: 1 · danced 0 times2003: 1 · danced 0 times
1925’40’50’60’70’80’902003
records madedanced on film, by the record’s year· our catalogue

1925: 1, 0; 1927: 1, 1; 1942: 1, 85; 1947: 1, 0; 1950: 1, 0; 1951: 2, 0; 1954: 1, 2; 1956: 1, 1; 1959: 1, 0; 1960: 1, 1; 1961: 1, 0; 1967: 1, 0; 1968: 1, 0; 1970: 1, 0; 2002: 1, 0; 2003: 1, 0

  1. Carlos Di Sarli recorded it in 1942, 1951 and 1954. 2 other orchestras recorded it more than once.

    How we know

    Takes in our catalogue by the same orchestra in different years; the canon’s first orchestra is named.

Organito de la tarde · Florindo Sassone · 1959 is a tango.† Organito de la tarde · Florindo Sassone · 1959 lasts 03:07.†

Credit

Music
Cátulo Castillo
Lyrics
José González Castillo

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Every recording

17 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 28 more we know of

1920’30’40’50’60’70’80’90’00

Choose A and B on two recordings to hear them one after the other.

  1. Juan D'ArienzoInstrumental · RCA Victor · Jul 27
    Not danced on film yet
    1967
  2. Carlos Di SarliMost dancedInstrumental · RCA Victor · Nov 30
    85 dances
    1942
  3. Carlos Di SarliInstrumental · Music Hall · Oct 23
    Not danced on film yet
    1951
  4. Carlos Di SarliInstrumental · RCA Victor · Aug 31
    2 dances
    1954
  5. Rodolfo BiagiInstrumental · Odeon · Mar 24
    1 dance
    1956
  6. Francisco CanaroEarliest we holdOdeon
    Not danced on film yet
    1925
  7. Francisco CanaroInstrumental · Odeon · May 13
    1 dance
    1927
  8. Francisco CanaroOdeon · Dec 1
    Not danced on film yet
    1961
  9. Ricardo PedevillaPampa · Nov 28
    Not danced on film yet
    1950
  10. José Basso
    Not danced on film yet
    1970
  11. Florindo SassoneAndrés Peiró · Odeon · Oct 8
    Not danced on film yet
    1959
  12. Florindo SassoneInstrumental · Odeon · Jun 3
    Not danced on film yet
    1968
  13. Quinteto Real (Horacio Salgán)Columbia
    1 dance
    1960
  14. Orquesta Escuela de TangoOct 1
    Not danced on film yet
    2003
  15. Orquesta El Arranque
    Not danced on film yet
    2002
  16. Alberto MarinoApr 9
    Not danced on film yet
    1947
  17. Puglia-Pedroza
    Not danced on film yet
    1951
  18. Roberto FirpoNot in our catalogue1924
  19. Guillermo Barbieri, José RicardoNot in our catalogueCarlos Gardel1925
  20. Roberto FirpoNot in our catalogue1937

Lyrics

Español

Al paso tardo de un pobre viejo puebla de notas el arrabal, con un concierto de vidrios rotos, el organito crepuscular. Dándole vueltas a la manija un hombre rengo marcha detrás mientras la dura pata de palo marca del tango el compás. En las notas de esa musiquita hay no sé qué de vaga sensación que el barrio parece impregnarse todo de emoción. Y es porque son tantos los recuerdos que a su paso despertando va que llena las almas con un gran deseo de llorar. Y al triste son de esa su canción sigue el organito lerdo como sembrando a su paso más pesar en el recuerdo, más calor en el ocaso. Y allá se va de su tango al son como buscando la noche que apagará su canción. Cuentan las viejas que todo saben y que el pianito junta a charlar que aquel viejito tuvo una hija que era la gloria del arrabal. Cuentan que el rengo era su novio y que en el corte no tuvo igual... Supo con ella, y en las milongas, con aquel tango reinar. Pero vino un día un forastero, bailarín, buen mozo y peleador que en una milonga compañera y pierna le quitó. Desde entonces es que padre y novio van buscando por el arrabal la ingrata muchacha al compás de aquel tango fatal.

English · machine translation

At the slow pace of a poor old man populates the suburb with notes, with a concert of broken glass, the twilight organ. Turning the handle a lame man marches behind while the hard wooden leg marks the tango beat. In the notes of that little music there is some vague sensation that the neighborhood seems to be impregnated with emotion. And it is because there are so many memories that in its wake it awakens that fills the souls with a great desire to cry. And to the sad sound of that song of hers follows the little slow organ as if sowing in its wake more sorrow in the memory, more warmth in the sunset. And there it goes of its tango to the sound as if searching for the night that will extinguish his song. The old women tell that they know everything and that the little piano brings them together to chat that that old man had a daughter who was the glory of the suburb. They say that the lame man was her boyfriend and that in the court she had no equal... He knew with her, and in the milongas, with that tango to reign. But one day a stranger came, dancer, handsome and a fighter who in a milonga and leg he took away his partner and his leg. Since then, father and boyfriend have been looking for the ungrateful girl the ungrateful girl to the beat of that fatal tango.

Data: recordings, facts and sources

In other catalogues2

tango.info · 00724347760228-1-3

Single source

tango.info · 02480002043256-1-11

Single source

Is a1

Is a tango

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Duration1

Duration 03:07

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Vocal1

Vocal sung

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Listen

  1. Organito de la tardeFrancisco Canaro1925

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