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Desencuentro · Orquesta Típica Imperial · 2006

Music by Aníbal Troilo, lyrics by Catulo Castillo. 5 recordings in our catalogue, 1962–2006.
1962: 2 · danced 115 times1963: 1 · danced 4 times1968: 1 · danced 0 times2006: 1 · danced 0 times
1962’70’80’90’002006
records madedanced on film, by the record’s year· our catalogue

1962: 2, 115; 1963: 1, 4; 1968: 1, 0; 2006: 1, 0

  1. Aníbal Troilo’s 1962 version holds 90% of its dancing (108 of 119).

    How we know

    Of the dances to its 5 recordings in our catalogue. Dances count filmed Occasions on TangoTube.

  2. Aníbal Troilo recorded it in 1962 and 1963.

    How we know

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

Credit

Music
Aníbal Troilo
Lyrics
Catulo Castillo

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Every recording

5 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 5 more we know of

1960’70’80’90’00

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

  1. Aníbal TroiloEarliest we holdMost dancedElba Berón · RCA Victor · Feb 9
    108 dances
    1962
  2. Aníbal TroiloRoberto Rufino · RCA Victor · Jun 5
    4 dances
    1963
  3. Osvaldo PuglieseAlfredo Belusi · Philips · Aug 1
    7 dances
    1962
  4. Baffa-BerlingieriRoberto Goyeneche · rca camden
    Not danced on film yet
    1968
  5. Orquesta Típica ImperialOmar Garré · Aug 1
    Not danced on film yet
    2006
  6. Susana RinaldiNot in our catalogue
  7. Alberto MarinoNot in our catalogue
  8. Ernesto Baffa, Osvaldo BerlingieriNot in our catalogueRoberto Goyeneche
  9. Osvaldo PiroNot in our catalogueInstrumental
  10. Sexteto CanyengueNot in our catalogueFabián Russo

Lyrics

Español · Underlined words are lunfardo: tap one for its meaning.

Estás desorientado y no sabés qué 'trole' hay que tomar para seguir. Y en este desencuentro con la fe querés cruzar el mar y no podés. La araña que salvaste te picó -¡qué vas a hacer!- y el hombre que ayudaste te hizo mal -¡dale nomás!- Y todo el carnaval gritando pisoteó la mano fraternal que Dios te dio. ¡Qué desencuentro! ¡Si hasta Dios está lejano! Llorás por dentro, todo es cuento, todo es vil. En el corso a contramano un trampeó a Jesús... No te fíes ni de tu hermano, se te cuelgan de la cruz... Quisiste con ternura, y el amor te devoró de atrás hasta el riñón. Se rieron de tu abrazo y ahí nomás te hundieron con rencor todo el arpón Amargo desencuentro, porque ves que es al revés... Creiste en la honradez y en la moral... ¡qué estupidez! Por eso en tu total fracaso de vivir, ni el tiro del final te va a salir.

English · machine translation

You are disoriented and don't know which 'trolley' to take to go on. And in this misunderstanding with faith you want to cross the sea and you cannot. The spider you saved has bitten you -what are you going to do? and the man you helped did you wrong -And the whole carnival And the whole carnival shouting trampled the brotherly hand that God gave you. What a misunderstanding! Even God is far away! You cry inside, all is fairy tale, all is vile. In the corso on the wrong side of the road a groupie cheated Jesus... Don't even trust your brother, they hang you from the cross... You loved with tenderness, and love devoured you from the back to the kidney. They laughed at your embrace and right there and then they sank you with rancor all the harpoon Bitter misunderstanding, because you see that it's the other way around... You believed in honesty and in morality... what a stupidity! That's why in your total failure to live, not even the final shot is not going to come out.

What we don't know yet4 of 5 known

The record label.

Data: recordings, facts and sources

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  1. DesencuentroAníbal Troilo · Elba Berón1962

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