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Song

El último café · Jorge Arduh · 1964

Jorge Arduh · tango · 1964
Music by Héctor Stamponi, lyrics by Catulo Castillo. 7 recordings in our catalogue, 1963–2019.

Who recorded it

Every version7

Earliest we hold: Fulvio Salamanca, 1963

  1. Juan D'ArienzoJorge Valdez1964
  2. José BassoJorge Durán1963
  3. Fulvio SalamancaJulio Rodolfo1963
  4. Sexteto TangoJorge Maciel1974
  5. Baffa-BerlingieriRoberto Goyeneche1968
  6. Jorge Arduh1964

Recorded in 1964, during the Nuevo (1955–1984).

1964

19551984

Jorge Arduh · no periods written yet

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Key facts
Year
1964
Orchestra
Jorge Arduh
Contents1The song2Who wrote it3Lyrics4Every version5One recording

The song

JORGE ARDUH Y SU ORQUESTA TÍPICAJorge ArduhEL ÚLTIMO CAFÉTango1964

The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.

7 orchestras recorded it

123 Dances filmed to it

Who wrote it

Music
Héctor Stamponi
Words
Catulo Castillo
Written
not yet cited · help fill it
First played
not yet cited · help fill it

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Lyrics

Español

Llega tu recuerdo en torbellino, vuelve en el otoño a atardecer miro la garúa, y mientras miro, gira la cuchara de café. Del último café que tus labios con frío, pidieron esa vez con la voz de un suspiro. Recuerdo tu desdén, te evoco sin razón, te escucho sin que estés. 'Lo nuestro terminó', dijiste en un adiós de azúcar y de hiel... ¡Lo mismo que el café, que el amor, que el olvido! Que el vértigo final de un rencor sin porqué... Y allí, con tu impiedad, me vi morir de pie, medí tu vanidad y entonces comprendí mi soledad sin para qué... Llovía y te ofrecí, ¡el último café!

English · machine translation

Your memory arrives in a whirlwind, returns in the autumn at sunset I look at the drizzle, and while I look, the coffee spoon turns. From the last coffee that your lips coldly asked for that time with the voice of a sigh. I remember your disdain, I evoke you without reason, I listen to you without you being there. It's over between us, you said in a goodbye of sugar and gall... The same as coffee, as love, as oblivion! Than the final vertigo of a rancor without a reason... And there, with your impiety I saw myself die on my feet, I measured your vanity and then I understood my loneliness without what for... It was raining and I offered you, the last coffee!

Every version

Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone

The catalogue holds 7 recordings of this song by 7 orchestras, 1963 to 2019.
1960’70’80’90’00’10
Recordings of El último café · Jorge Arduh · 1964 by year, taller the more they are danced · 7 of 7 recordings carry a year · read Nov 8, 2026

A Song's recorded lineage

We hold dated Recordings by 7 orchestras; the earliest here is Fulvio Salamanca in 1963.

  1. 1963Fulvio SalamancaRecording
  2. 1963José BassoRecording
  3. 1964Juan D'ArienzoRecording
  4. 1964Jorge ArduhRecording
  5. 1968Baffa-BerlingieriRecording
  6. 1974Sexteto TangoRecording
  7. 2019Matilde VitulloRecording

Gold marks the first we hold, not the first ever. Filled dots have filmed Dances; rings have no Dances matched yet.

7 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 14 more we know of

a version people dance tono Dances matched yet: something to listen to

The leader is Juan D'Arienzo, 1964, with 100% of the 123 filmed dances matched to a version of this song.

16 more dances name this song but not which version, so no share counts them. “No match yet” means no filmed dance is tied to that version so far, not that nobody dances it. Dances whose music we have not identified are left out.

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

  1. Juan D'ArienzoMost dancedEl último café · Juan D'Arienzo · Jorge Valdez · tango · Sep 25, 1964 · RCA Victor
    123 dances · 100%
    1964
  2. Fulvio SalamancaEarliest we holdEl último café · Fulvio Salamanca · Julio Rodolfo · tango · Dec 19, 1963
    No match yet
    1963
  3. José BassoEl último café · José Basso · Jorge Durán · tango · 1963 · Music Hall
    No match yet
    1963
  4. Jorge ArduhEl último café · Jorge Arduh · tango · 1964
    No match yet
    1964
  5. Baffa-BerlingieriEl último café · Baffa-Berlingieri · Roberto Goyeneche · tango · 1968 · rca camden
    No match yet
    1968
  6. Sexteto TangoEl último café · Sexteto Tango · Jorge Maciel · tango · May 23, 1974
    No match yet
    1974
  7. Matilde VitulloEl último café · Matilde Vitullo · tango · Jul 1, 2019
    No match yet
    2019
  8. Leopoldo FedericoNot in our catalogueJulio Sosa · Dec 201963
  9. Fulvio SalamancaNot in our catalogueJulio Rodolfo1964
  10. Hugo del CarrilNot in our catalogue1969
  11. Rosanna FalascaNot in our catalogue1982
  12. Hugo del CarrilNot in our catalogue
  13. Susana RinaldiNot in our catalogue
  14. Ernesto Baffa, Osvaldo BerlingieriNot in our catalogueRoberto Goyeneche
  15. Esteban MorgadoNot in our catalogue
  16. Héctor StamponiNot in our catalogue
  17. María VolontéNot in our catalogue
  18. Miguel CalóNot in our catalogueHéctor De Rosas
  19. Osvaldo PiroNot in our catalogue
  20. Walter RíosNot in our catalogue

One recording

A dated take, with its sound and the couples dancing it.

JORGE ARDUH Y SU ORQUESTA TÍPICAJorge ArduhEL ÚLTIMO CAFÉTango1964

Jorge Arduh

El último café · Jorge Arduh · tango · 1964

No couple filmed dancing this recording yet

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What we don't know yet3 of 5 known

The day it was recorded, the record label.

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  1. El último café · Fulvio Salamanca · Julio Rodolfo · 1963

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