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Olga · Quinteto Don Pancho (Francisco Canaro) · 1940

Quinteto Don Pancho (Francisco Canaro)valsOdeon
Music by Francisco Peña, lyrics by Francisco Peña. 9 recordings in our catalogue, 1927–1974.

Who recorded it

Every version9

Earliest we hold: Francisco Canaro, 1927

  1. Juan D'Arienzo19481956
  2. Alfredo De Angelis1954
  3. Francisco Canaro1927
  4. Quinteto Pirincho (Francisco Canaro)1956
  5. Cuarteto Típico Roberto Firpo1946
  6. Armando Pontier1957

Pinned at 1940 · Golden Age 1935–1954 · Quinteto Don Pancho (Francisco Canaro) recordings indexed 1937–1940

The song

The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.

8 orchestras recorded it

32 Dances filmed to it

Who wrote it

Music
Francisco Peña
Words
Francisco Peña
Written
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Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Lyrics

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En ti viví un amor, por ti soñé feliz... Y fue cual renacer de dicha pleno, en un mundo ideal para mí, jamás podré olvidar la luz y el esplendor, la fe y la ilusión que con tu amor vertiste en mí. Recuerdo con el alma las horas que ayer gocé juntito a tu buen amor, amante y bella mujer, mas, breve fue la dicha y efímera la ilusión porque a éstas las quebró el dolor... Pasaron ya las horas de encanto y de placer quedando sólo dolor, olvido y desilusión, qué triste es para un hombre el recuerdo de un buen amor ¡porque viene a torturar su ser...! Hoy yo no sé adónde estás, mi buena amiga que ayer te amé con pasión. Mi incomprensión mató el querer dejando en mi alma un mal como castigo de amor.

English · machine translation

In you I lived a love, for you I dreamed happily... And it was like a rebirth of full bliss, in an ideal world for me, I will never be able to forget the light and the splendor, the faith and the illusion that with your love you poured into me. I remember with my soul the hours that yesterday I enjoyed together with your good love, lover and beautiful woman, but the happiness was brief and the illusion ephemeral... because they were broken by pain... The hours of enchantment and pleasure are gone leaving only pain, oblivion and disillusionment, How sad it is for a man the memory of a good love because it comes to torture his being...! Today I do not know where you are, my good friend that yesterday I loved you with passion. My incomprehension killed my love leaving in my soul an evil as a punishment of love.

Every version

Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone

The catalogue holds 9 recordings of this song by 8 orchestras, 1927 to 1974.
1920’30’40’50’60’70
Recordings of Olga · Quinteto Don Pancho (Francisco Canaro) · 1940 by year, taller the more they are danced · 9 of 9 recordings carry a year · read Nov 2, 2026

9 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 6 more we know of

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

The leader is Juan D'Arienzo, with 53% of the 32 filmed dances matched to a version of this song.

7 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. Alfredo De AngelisOlgaAlfredo De AngelisinstrumentalvalsOdeon
    12 dances · 38%
    1954
  2. Francisco CanaroEarliest we holdOlgaFrancisco CanaroinstrumentalvalsOdeon
    3 dances · 9%
    1927
  3. Quinteto Don Pancho (Francisco Canaro)OlgaQuinteto Don Pancho (Francisco Canaro)valsOdeon
    No match yet
    1940
  4. Cuarteto Típico Roberto FirpoOlgaCuarteto Típico Roberto Firpovals
    No match yet
    1946
  5. Quinteto Pirincho (Francisco Canaro)OlgaQuinteto Pirincho (Francisco Canaro)valsOdeon
    No match yet
    1956
  6. Armando PontierOlgaArmando PontierinstrumentalvalsCBS Columbia
    No match yet
    1957
  7. Miguel VillasboasOlgaMiguel Villasboasvals
    No match yet
    1974
  8. Quinteto Don Pancho, dir. Francisco CanaroNot in our catalogueMay 221940
  9. Juan CambareriNot in our catalogueAug 101948
  10. Juan CambareriNot in our catalogueJul 251950
  11. Tito MartínNot in our catalogue1951
  12. Ariel RamírezNot in our catalogue1975
  13. Rafael RossiNot in our catalogue-unspecified male-

One recording

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Quinteto Don Pancho (Francisco Canaro)

OlgaQuinteto Don Pancho (Francisco Canaro)valsOdeon

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Recorded the same day

What else Quinteto Don Pancho (Francisco Canaro) recorded on May 22, 1940.

  1. Pan nuestroQuinteto Don Pancho (Francisco Canaro)tangoOdeon

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