Song
Loca · Juan D'Arienzo · 1942
Juan D'ArienzoinstrumentaltangoRCA VictorWho recorded it
Every version10Earliest we hold: Quinteto Don Pancho (Francisco Canaro), 1938
Pinned at 1942 · Golden Age 1935–1954 · Juan D'Arienzo recordings indexed 1928–1975 · gold: Slowing down, 1940–1944
Loca · Juan D'Arienzo · 1942 is a tango.† Loca · Juan D'Arienzo · 1942 lasts 02:33.† Loca · Juan D'Arienzo · 1942: An old instrumental that Lavocah suspects actually dates from D'Arienzo's pre-1940 band.†
The song
The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.
8 orchestras recorded it
346 Dances filmed to it
Who wrote it
- Music
- Manuel Jovés
- Words
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- Written
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- First played
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Source: TangoCloud catalogue
Lyrics
These are the song’s words. This take is instrumental.
Español
Loca me llaman mis amigos, que sólo son testigos de mi liviano amor. Loca, ¿qué saben lo que siento, ni qué remordimiento se oculta en mi interior? Yo tengo, con alegrías, que disfrazar mi tristeza, y que hacen de mi cabeza las pesadillas huir. Yo tengo que ahogar en vino la pena que me devora. Cuando mi corazón llora, mis labios deben reír. Yo, si a un hombre lo desprecio, tengo que fingirle amores; y admiración, cuando es necio; y si es cobarde, temores. Yo que no he pertenecido al ambiente en que ahora estoy, he de olvidar lo que he sido y he de olvidar lo que soy. Loca me dicen mis amigos, que sólo son testigos de mi liviano amor. Loca, ¿qué saben lo que siento, ni qué remordimiento se oculta en mi interior? Allá muy lejos, muy lejos, donde el sol cae cada día, un tranquilo hogar había y en el hogar unos viejos. La vida y su encanto era una muchacha que huyó sin decirles dónde fuera, y esa muchacha soy yo. Hoy no existe ya la casa, hoy no existen ya los viejos hoy la muchacha muy lejos, sufriendo la vida pasa. Y al caer todos los días en aquella tierra el sol, caen con él mis alegrías y muere mi corazón.
English · machine translation
Crazy my friends call me, who are only witnesses of my light love. Crazy, what do they know what I feel, nor what remorse is hidden inside me? I have, with joys to disguise my sadness, and that make from my head the nightmares flee. I have to drown in wine the sorrow that devours me. When my heart cries my lips must laugh. I, if I despise a man, I must pretend to love him; and admiration, when he is foolish; and if he is a coward, fears. I who have not belonged to the environment in which I am now, I must forget what I have been and I must forget what I am. My friends tell me I'm crazy, who are only witnesses of my light love. Crazy, what do they know what I feel, nor what remorse is hidden inside me? Far, far away, far away where the sun falls every day, there was a quiet home and in the home some old people. Life and its charm was a girl who ran away without telling them where she went, and that girl is me. Today the house no longer exists, today the old people no longer exist today the girl is far away, suffering life goes by. And as the sun sets every day on that land the sun my joys fall with it and my heart dies.
Every version
Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone
10 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 7 more we know of
a version people dance tono Dances matched yet: something to listen to
The leader is Juan D'Arienzo, with 50% of the 346 filmed dances matched to a version of this song.
180 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.
- Tango BardoLocaTango Bardotango168 dances · 49%2015
- Quinteto Don Pancho (Francisco Canaro)Earliest we holdLocaQuinteto Don Pancho (Francisco Canaro)tangoOdeon2 dances · <1%1938
- Los Solistas De D'ArienzoLocaLos Solistas De D'ArienzotangoMusic Hall2 dances · <1%1975
- Típica VictorLocaTípica VictorinstrumentaltangoRCA VictorNo match yet1941
- Enrique MoraLocaEnrique MoraAmanda VidaltangoNo match yet1950
- Alfredo De AngelisLocaAlfredo De AngelisJuan Carlos GodoytangoOdeonNo match yet1964
- Orquesta Típica Fervor de Buenos AiresLocaOrquesta Típica Fervor de Buenos AirestangoNo match yet2006
- Guillermo Barbieri, José RicardoNot in our catalogueCarlos Gardel1922
- -unspecified orchestra-Not in our catalogue1924
- Quinteto Don Pancho, dir. Francisco CanaroNot in our catalogueJun 201938
- Juan CanaroNot in our catalogue-unspecified female- · Oct 41954
- Maria De La FuenteNot in our catalogue
- Ernesto FrancoNot in our catalogue
- Los Autenticos ReyesNot in our catalogue
One recording
A dated take, with its sound and the couples dancing it.
Juan D'Arienzo
LocaJuan D'ArienzoinstrumentaltangoRCA VictorCouples filmed dancing this recording · 164 Performances
Recorded the same day
What else Juan D'Arienzo recorded on Apr 22, 1942.
Danced to it
Music from 1942 · danced on film 2007–2026
2007: 6, 2008: 2, 2009: 1, 2010: 4, 2011: 4, 2012: 10, 2013: 5, 2014: 8, 2015: 10, 2016: 11, 2017: 14, 2018: 8, 2019: 8, 2022: 7, 2023: 9, 2024: 8, 2025: 5, 2026: 1
Where it is danced
The places our videos show it danced, by performances filmed there.
Filmed sets
One Couple dancing three or four songs at one Occasion, every song known. What was danced on film, not what a DJ played.
3 of 15 complete sets on film
Georgia Priskou and Loukas Balokas
Ankara Tango Festival, 2012 · In upload order: nobody has said the order danced
- 1FloraCarlos Di Sarli, 1930
- 2LocaJuan D'Arienzo, 1942
- 3La milonga que faltabaEdgardo Donato, 1938
- 4RecuerdoOsvaldo Pugliese, 1944
Alexa Yepes and Edwin Espinosa
2014 · In upload order: nobody has said the order danced
- 1Que nunca me falteRicardo Tanturi, 1943
- 2LocaJuan D'Arienzo, 1942
- 3PasionalOsvaldo Pugliese, 1952
- 4Milonga del recuerdoJuan D'Arienzo, 1939
Fernando Carrasco and Jimena Hoeffner
2014 · In upload order: nobody has said the order danced
- 1Gallo ciegoOrquesta Forever Tango, 1998
- 2Viejo portónRodolfo Biagi, 1938
- 3El látigoJuan D'Arienzo, 1970
- 4LocaJuan D'Arienzo, 1942
Read more
- PodcastTango By Year: Tango 1942
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- EntryLoca · Juan D'Arienzo · 1955Recording
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- EntryChiqué · Juan D'Arienzo · 1942Recording
- EntryIndependencia · Juan D'Arienzo · 1942Recording
- EntryCanaro · Juan D'Arienzo · 1941Recording
- EntryTierra negra · Juan D'Arienzo · 1942Recording
- EntryLoca · Típica Victor · 1941Recording
Danced alongside it
Our data: the recordings most often danced in the same filmed Performance as this one (one Couple dancing one to eight songs). Nearer the middle, more Performances.
- 1Viejo portónRodolfo Biagi, 1938 · danced together in 4 Performances
- 2JudasJuan D'Arienzo, 1942 · danced together in 3 Performances
- 3ChaparronJuan D'Arienzo, 1946 · danced together in 3 Performances
- 4Milonga del recuerdoJuan D'Arienzo, 1939 · danced together in 2 Performances
- 5Milonga del 83Juan D'Arienzo, 1940 · danced together in 2 Performances
- 6La puñaladaJuan D'Arienzo, 1943 · danced together in 2 Performances
- 7Desde el almaJuan D'Arienzo, 1935 · danced together in 2 Performances
- 8Los mareadosOsvaldo Pugliese, 1977 · danced together in 2 Performances
- 9PasionalOsvaldo Pugliese, 1952 · danced together in 2 Performances
- 10El andariegoOsvaldo Pugliese, 1972 · danced together in 2 Performances
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Connected
From TangoTube's videos · our data
Danced at
- Mundial de Baile de Tango5 videos
- Planetango4 videos
- Lisbon Tango Festival3 videos
- Mediterranean Summer Tango Festival2 videos
- Antwerpen Tango Festival2 videos
- Viva La Pepa2 videos
- Milonga La Baldosa2 videos
- Gavito Tango Festival2 videos
- Ankara Tango Festival1 video
- Preliminar Chile1 video
- Argentine Tango USA Championship1 video
- Floreal Milonga1 video
Danced by
- Daniel Nacucchio12 videos
- Cristina Sosa12 videos
- Fernando Gracia9 videos
- Sol Cerquides9 videos
- Brenno Marques6 videos
- Mariano Chicho Frúmboli6 videos
- Juana Sepulveda6 videos
- Martina Waldman5 videos
- Jose Fernandez5 videos
- Fatima Caracoch4 videos
- Moira Castellano4 videos
Data: recordings, facts and sources
In other catalogues5
tango.info · 02480002027744-1-3
tango.info · 02480002003090-1-10
tango.info · 02480002335528-2-5
tango.info · 02480002337263-1-2
tango.info · 02480002761396-1-1
Is a1
Is a tango
Duration1
Duration 02:33
Audio feature12
Audio feature 123.0
Audio feature 0.964
Audio feature E
Audio feature minor
Audio feature 0.841
Audio feature -21.0
Audio feature 0.352
Audio feature 0.546
Audio feature 0.007
Audio feature 0.011
Audio feature 0.0
Audio feature 0.982
Notes1
An old instrumental that Lavocah suspects actually dates from D'Arienzo's pre-1940 band.
Vocal1
Vocal instrumental
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