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Contame una historia · Osvaldo Pugliese · 1985

Music by Eladia Blázquez. 2 recordings in our catalogue, 1981–1985.
1981: 1 · danced 6 times1985: 1 · danced 0 times
19811985
records madedanced on film, by the record’s year· our catalogue

1981: 1, 6; 1985: 1, 0

  1. Osvaldo Pugliese recorded it in 1981 and 1985.

    How we know

    Takes in our catalogue by the same orchestra in different years; the canon’s first orchestra is named.

Contame una historia · Osvaldo Pugliese · 1985 was sung by Adrián Guida.† Contame una historia · Osvaldo Pugliese · 1985 is a tango.† Contame una historia · Osvaldo Pugliese · 1985 lasts 02:20.†

Credit

Music
Eladia Blázquez

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Every recording

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

1980

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

  1. Osvaldo PuglieseEarliest we holdMost dancedHernán Salinas · Odeon · Jul 29
    6 dances
    1981
  2. Osvaldo PuglieseAdrián Guida · Odeon · Dec 26
    Not danced on film yet
    1985
  3. Osvaldo PuglieseNot in our catalogueAdrián Guida1989
  4. Osvaldo PuglieseNot in our catalogueAdrián Guida · Jun 261989
  5. Rubén JuárezNot in our catalogue
  6. Rubén JuárezNot in our catalogueRubén Juárez

Lyrics

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Vos que tenés labia, contame una historia. Metele con todo, no te hagas rogar. Frename este absurdo girar en la noria moliendo una cosa que llaman 'verdad'... Contame una historia distinta de todas, un lindo que invite a soñar. Quitame esta de verme por dentro y este olor a muerte de mi soledad... Contame una historia... Mentime al oído la fábula dulce de un mundo querido, soñado y mejor... Abrime una puerta por donde se escape la fiebre del alma que huele a dolor... Contame una historia vos, que sos mi hermano, volcame en la curda que me haga sentir que aunque el mundo siga yirando a los tumbos, aún vale la pena jugarse y vivir... Batime que existen amigos derechos, mujeres enteras que saben querer. Y tipos con tela que se abren el pecho, si ven que la vida te puso en el riel... Contame la justa de un lecho de rosas. ¡Estoy tan cansado de andar por andar!... Contame una historia con gusto a otra cosa, y en la piel del alma poneme un disfraz...

English · machine translation

If you're a smooth talker, tell me a story. Put everything into it, don't make me beg you. Brake me this absurd spinning on the Ferris wheel grinding a thing they call 'truth'... Tell me a story different from all the others, a nice balurdo that invites you to dream. Take away from me this muffle of seeing me inside and this smell of death of my loneliness... Tell me a story... Lie to my ear the sweet fable of a loved, dreamed and better world... Open a door for me where the fever of the soul that smells of pain the fever of the soul that smells of pain... Tell me a story you, who are my brother, Pour me into the curd that makes me feel that even though the world is still spinning in circles, it's still worth the gamble and living... I know that there are right friends, whole women who know how to love. And guys with cloth who open their chests, if they see that life has put you on the rail... Tell me the joust of a bed of roses. I'm so tired of walking for the sake of walking!... Tell me a story that tastes like something else.., and on the skin of my soul put me a disguise...

Data: recordings, facts and sources

In other catalogues2

tango.info · 02480002333272-1-4

Single source

tango.info · 00724352227327-1-13

Single source

Singers1

Sung by Adrián Guida

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Is a1

Is a tango

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Duration1

Duration 02:20

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Vocal1

Vocal sung

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Listen

  1. Contame una historiaOsvaldo Pugliese · Hernán Salinas1981

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