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El motivo · Nuevo Quinteto Real (Horacio Salgán) · 1987

Music by Juan Carlos Cobián, lyrics by Pascual Contursi. 15 recordings in our catalogue, 1942–1987.

Credit

Music
Juan Carlos Cobián
Lyrics
Pascual Contursi

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Every recording

15 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 12 more we know of

  1. Roberto FirpoNot in our catalogueInstrumental · tango.info1919
  2. José RicardoNot in our catalogueCarlos Gardel · tango.info1920
  3. Julio De CaroEarliest we holdInstrumental
    2 dances
    1942
  4. Juan Carlos CobianInstrumental
    29 dances
    1944
  5. Alberto MarinoInstrumental · Nov 6
    3 dances
    1947
  6. Emilio BalcarceNot in our catalogueAlberto Marino · Nov 6 · tango.info1947
  7. Eduardo Del PianoÁngel Vargas · RCA Victor · Dec 28
    Not danced on film yet
    1949
  8. Alberto MancioneFrancisco Fiorentino · Mar 30
    Not danced on film yet
    1951
  9. Aníbal TroiloMost dancedRoberto Goyeneche · RCA Victor · Aug 23
    106 dances
    1961
  10. José BassoFloreal Ruiz · Music Hall · Apr 1
    Not danced on film yet
    1962
  11. Aníbal TroiloTito Reyes · RCA Victor · Dec 1
    Not danced on film yet
    1965
  12. Aníbal TroiloTito Reyes · RCA Victor · Dec 16
    Not danced on film yet
    1965
  13. Horacio SalganInstrumental · Philips
    Not danced on film yet
    1965
  14. Reynaldo NicheleInstrumental · Microfon
    Not danced on film yet
    1965
  15. Ciriaco Ortiz, Ubaldo Aquiles De LioNot in our catalogueInstrumental · tango.info1965
  16. Osvaldo PuglieseInstrumental · Philips · Aug 1
    8 dances
    1966
  17. Roberto GoyenecheInstrumental · Apr 10
    6 dances
    1968
  18. Aníbal Troilo y Astor PiazzollaInstrumental · RCA Victor · Aug 13
    2 dances
    1970
  19. Nuevo Quinteto Real (Horacio Salgán)Instrumental · Philips
    Not danced on film yet
    1987
  20. Edmundo RiveroNot in our cataloguetango.info

Lyrics

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

Mina que fue en otro tiempo la más papa y en esas noches tangueras fue la reina del festín. Hoy no tiene pa' ponerse ni zapatos ni vestidos, anda enferma y el amigo no aportó para el . Ya no tienen sus ojazos esos fuertes resplandores y en su cara los colores se le ven palidecer. Está enferma, sufre y llora y manya con sentimiento de que así, enferma y sin más naide la va a querer. Pobre que ha tenido a la gente rechiflada y supo con la mirada conquistar una pasión. Hoy no tiene quien se arrime por cariño a su . ¡Pobre arrabalera que quedó sin corazón! Y cuando de los bandoneones se oyen las notas de un tango, pobre florcita de fango siente en su alma vibrar las nostalgias de otros tiempos de placeres y de amores, ¡hoy sólo son sinsabores que la invitan a llorar!

English · machine translation

Mina who was once the most papa milonguera and in those tango nights she was the queen of the feast. Today she has no shoes or dresses neither shoes nor dresses, she is sick and her friend did not contribute to the bulín. Her big eyes no longer have no longer have those strong glares and in his face the colors pale on her face. She is sick, she suffers and cries and manya with feeling that this way, sick and without wind no one will love her anymore. Poor paica who has had the people reproached and knew how to conquer a passion to conquer a passion. Today she has no one to come close for affection to her catrera. Poor little paica who was left without a heart! And when from the bandoneons the notes of a tango are heard, poor little mud flower feels in her soul vibrating the nostalgia of other times of pleasures and loves, today they are only sorrows that invite her to weep!

What we don't know yet4 of 5 known

The day it was recorded.

Data: recordings, facts and sources

Recordings by year

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

19421987

1942: 1, 1944: 1, 1947: 1, 1949: 1, 1951: 1, 1961: 1, 1962: 1, 1965: 4, 1966: 1, 1968: 1, 1970: 1, 1987: 1

No published facts yet. Facts appear here, each with its source, as they are collected.

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  1. El motivoJulio De Caro1942

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