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El viejo vals · Charlo · 1955

CharlosungvalsOdeon
Music by Charlo, lyrics by José González Castillo. 3 recordings in our catalogue, 1931–1986.

Who recorded it

Every version3

Earliest we hold: Francisco Canaro, 1931

  1. Francisco CanaroCharlo1931
  2. José BassoEduardo Borda · Quique Ojeda1986
  3. Francisco RotundoFloreal Ruiz · Enrique Campos1951

Pinned at 1955 · Nuevo 1955–1984

The song

The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.

3 orchestras recorded it

165 Dances filmed to it

Who wrote it

Music
Charlo
Words
José González Castillo
Written
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First played
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Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Lyrics

Español

Al lánguido compás de un vals de Chopin, mi amor te confesé sin ver que más llamaba tu interés aquel vals. Por eso hoy mi canción a su mismo compás, te llora como un bien que ya jamás traerá a mi corazón su vaivén. Fue como un loco volar de falena con giros y vueltas en torno al fanal que nos deslumbra y nos llena de un dulce mareo sutil y fatal... Juntos mi pecho y tu seno... los dos corazones, latiendo a la par, fijo, impasible y sereno ¡tu frío mirar!... ¡Quién me diría que toda la gloria, de aquella gentil posesión, era la efímera coda que al valse ponía mi loca ilusión!... Dócil tu mano en mi mano... ¡Mi brazo oprimiendo tu talle liviano y en tanto mi acento muriendo en el lento girar del valsar!... Falena de salón. mi corazón también sus alas de ilusión quemó tenaz girando en aquel vals de Chopin... Borracho de pasión y ciego de querer, se lanza a tu atracción sin ver que más que un alma en ti, mujer, hay un vals.

English · machine translation

To the languid beat of a Chopin waltz, my love I confessed to you without seeing what else that waltz called your interest. That's why today my song to the same beat, weeps for you like a good that will never again will bring to my heart its swaying. It was like a mad flight of the skirt with twists and turns around the beacon that dazzles and fills us of a sweet, subtle and fatal dizziness... Together my breast and your breast... the two hearts, beating at the same time.., fixed, impassive and serene your cold gaze!... Who would tell me that all the glory of that gentle possession was the ephemeral coda that my crazy illusion put to the waltz!... Your hand docile in my hand... My arm pressing against your light waist and while my accent dying in the slow the waltz's slow spinning!... Falena de salón. my heart too its wings of illusion burned tenaciously spinning in that Chopin's waltz... Drunk with passion and blind with love he throws himself into your attraction without seeing that more than a soul in you, woman, there is a waltz.

Every version

Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone

The catalogue holds 3 recordings of this song by 3 orchestras, 1931 to 1986.
1930’40’50’60’70’80
Recordings of El viejo vals · Charlo · 1955 by year, taller the more they are danced · 3 of 3 recordings carry a year · read Nov 1, 2026

3 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 4 more we know of

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

The leader is Francisco Rotundo, 1951, with 92% of the 165 filmed dances matched to a version of this song.

10 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. Francisco RotundoMost dancedEl viejo valsFrancisco RotundoFloreal Ruiz, Enrique CamposvalsOdeon
    152 dances · 92%
    1951
  2. Francisco CanaroEarliest we holdEl viejo valsFrancisco CanaroCharlovalsOdeon
    13 dances · 8%
    1931
  3. José BassoEl viejo valsJosé BassoEduardo Borda, Quique Ojedavals
    No match yet
    1986
  4. -unspecified guitars-Not in our catalogueCharlo1938
  5. -unspecified guitars-Not in our catalogueCharlo · Jan 191955
  6. Rubén JuárezNot in our catalogue
  7. Dúo Fuertes-VarnerínNot in our catalogueAgustín Fuertes, Ariel Varnerín

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