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Como dos extraños · Roberto Goyeneche · 1989

Roberto GoyenecheRoberto Goyenechetango
Music by Pedro Laurenz, lyrics by José María Contursi. 6 recordings in our catalogue, 1940–2006.

Pinned at 1989 · Revival 1985–1999 · Roberto Goyeneche recordings indexed 1968–1980

The work

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Music
Pedro Laurenz
Lyrics
José María Contursi

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Recordings

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The catalogue holds 6 recordings of this song by 5 orchestras, 1940 to 2006.

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1940’50’60’70’80’90’00
Recordings of Como dos extraños · Roberto Goyeneche · 1989 by year, taller the more they are danced · 6 of 6 recordings carry a year · read Nov 1, 2026

6 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 11 more we know of

The leader is Pedro Laurenz, 1940, with 76% of the 66 filmed dances matched to a version of this song.

11 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. Pedro LaurenzEarliest we holdMost dancedComo dos extrañosPedro LaurenzJuan Carlos CasastangoRCA Victor
    50 dances · 76%
    1940
  2. Francisco CanaroComo dos extrañosFrancisco CanaroErnesto FamátangoOdeon
    8 dances · 12%
    1940
  3. José BassoComo dos extrañosJosé BassoFloreal RuiztangoOdeon
    7 dances · 11%
    1961
  4. Orquesta Típica ImperialComo dos extrañosOrquesta Típica ImperialJulio César Fernántango
    1 dance · 2%
    2006
  5. Armando PontierComo dos extrañosArmando PontierOscar FerraritangoCBS Columbia
    No match yet
    1960
  6. Pedro LaurenzComo dos extrañosPedro Laurenzsinger unknowntangoMicrofon
    No match yet
    1968
  7. Ciriaco Ortiz, Ubaldo Aquiles De LioNot in our catalogue1965
  8. Pedro LaurenzNot in our catalogue1966
  9. Adriana VarelaNot in our catalogue1998
  10. Adriana VarelaNot in our catalogue
  11. María GrañaNot in our catalogue
  12. Roberto GoyenecheNot in our catalogue
  13. Susana RinaldiNot in our catalogue
  14. Juan Carlos CáceresNot in our catalogue
  15. Juan Carlos CáceresNot in our catalogueJuan Carlos Cáceres
  16. Néstor MarconiNot in our catalogue-unspecified male-
  17. -unspecified female-Not in our catalogue

Lyrics

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Me acobardó la soledad y el miedo enorme de morir lejos de ti... ¡Qué ganas tuve de llorar sintiendo junto a mí la burla de la realidad! Y el corazón me suplicó que te buscara y que le diera tu querer... Me lo pedía el corazón y entonces te busqué creyéndote mi salvación... Y ahora que estoy frente a ti parecemos, ya ves, dos extraños... Lección que por fin aprendí: ¡cómo cambian las cosas los años! Angustia de saber muertas ya la ilusión y la fe... Perdón si me ves lagrimear... ¡Los recuerdos me han hecho mal! Palideció la luz del sol al escucharte fríamente conversar... Fue tan distinto nuestro amor y duele comprobar que todo, todo terminó. ¡Qué gran error volverte a ver para llevarme destrozado el corazón! Son mil fantasmas, al volver burlándose de mí, las horas de ese muerto ayer...

English · machine translation

I was cowed by loneliness and the enormous fear of dying far from you... How I wanted to cry feeling next to me the mockery of reality! And my heart begged me to look for you and to give it your love... My heart asked me to do so and then I looked for you believing you to be my salvation... And now that I am in front of you we seem, you see, two strangers... Lesson I finally learned: how the years change things! Anguish of knowing that illusion and faith illusion and faith... Forgive me if you see me cry... Memories have made me sick! The sunlight paled as I listened to you coldly conversing... Our love was so different and it hurts to see that everything, everything is over. What a great mistake to see you again to take my heart shattered! There are a thousand ghosts, coming back mocking me, the hours of that dead yesterday...

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  1. Como dos extrañosPedro LaurenzJuan Carlos Casas

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