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Milonga de los fortines · Típica Victor · 1937

Music by Sebastián Piana, lyrics by Homero Manzi. 1 recordings in our catalogue, 1937–1937.

Milonga de los fortines · Típica Victor · 1937 was sung by Mariano Balcarce.† Milonga de los fortines · Típica Victor · 1937 is a milonga.† Milonga de los fortines · Típica Victor · 1937 lasts 02:58.†

Credit

Music
Sebastián Piana
Lyrics
Homero Manzi

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Every recording

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

Choose A and B on two recordings to hear them one after the other.

  1. Típica VictorEarliest we holdMost dancedMariano Balcarce · RCA Victor · Sep 28
    105 dances
    1937
  2. José CanetNot in our catalogueNelly Omar1981
  3. Agustín IrustaNot in our catalogue
  4. Nelly OmarNot in our catalogue
  5. José CanetNot in our catalogueNelly Omar

Lyrics

Español

Milonga de cien reyertas templada como el valor. Grito de pampa desierta diciendo su alerta con voz de cantor. Milonga de quita penas. Nostalgia de población. Canto qu'en noche serena su rezo despena detrás del fogón. Diana de viejas victorias en la punta del tropel, con tu vanguardia de gloria serás en la historia canción y laurel. Son de querencia querida en las noches del cuartel. Pena de china querida que al fin afligida dejó de ser fiel. Resuenan con tus acentos, milonga del batallón, gritos de viejos sargentos cargando en el viento con el escuadrón. Y vuelven en los sonidos agudos del cornetín, ecos de mil alaridos que estaban perdidos detrás del confín. Gime el desierto rodando sus rumores de huracán... Vienen las lanzas cargando y están aguaitando la Cruz y el Puñal. Gloria de aquel comandante que jamás volvió al cantón. Besan su barba cervuna la luz de la luna y el fuego del sol.

English · machine translation

Milonga of a hundred fights tempered as courage. Cry of deserted pampas saying its alert with the voice of a singer. Milonga of the removal of sorrows. Nostalgia of population. Song that in serene night its prayer behind the hearth. Diana of old victories at the top of the troop, with your vanguard of glory you will be in history song and laurel. You will be a beloved sound of love in the nights of the barracks. Sorrow of the beloved Chinese who at the end afflicted ceased to be faithful. They resonate with your accents, milonga of the battalion, cries of old sergeants charging in the wind with the squadron. And they return in the high-pitched of the bugle, echoes of a thousand shrieks that were lost behind the border. The desert moans rolling its hurricane rumors... The spears come charging and they are watering the Cross and the Dagger. Glory of that commander who never returned to the canton. They kiss his fawn beard the light of the moon and the fire of the sun.

Danced to it

Music from 1937 · danced on film 2008–2025

20082025
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

2008: 3, 2009: 4, 2010: 7, 2011: 3, 2012: 6, 2013: 2, 2014: 2, 2015: 5, 2016: 4, 2017: 8, 2018: 4, 2019: 5, 2021: 2, 2023: 8, 2024: 2, 2025: 4

Where it is danced

The places our videos show it danced, by performances filmed there.

  1. Salón El Pial (La Baldosa)Flores
    3 performances
  2. Salón CanningPalermo
    2 performances
  3. El Zorzal CulturalBalvanera
    1 performance
  4. MarabúSan Nicolás
    1 performance
  5. Sunderland ClubVilla Urquiza
    1 performance

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.

  1. 1Color cieloJuan D'Arienzo, 1944 · danced together in 2 Performances
  2. 2InfamiaJuan D'Arienzo, 1941 · danced together in 2 Performances
  3. 3MalezaOsvaldo Pugliese, 1945 · danced together in 2 Performances
  4. 4AmuradoPedro Laurenz, 1940 · danced together in 2 Performances
  5. 5TemoTípica Victor, 1940 · danced together in 2 Performances
Data: recordings, facts and sources

In other catalogues7

tango.info · 02480002116523-1-11

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tango.info · 02480002001188-1-13

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tango.info · 02480002044703-1-9

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tango.info · 00718750143723-1-2

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tango.info · 02480002153399-1-18

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tango.info · 02480002335078-2-6

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tango.info · 07898659721727-1-20

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Singers1

Sung by Mariano Balcarce

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Is a1

Is a milonga

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Duration1

Duration 02:58

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Vocal1

Vocal sung

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Listen

  1. Milonga de los fortinesTípica Victor · Mariano Balcarce1937

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