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En blanco y negro · Alberto Mancione · 1954

Music by Néstor Feria, lyrics by Fernán Silva Valdés. 1 recordings in our catalogue, 1954–1954.

En blanco y negro · Alberto Mancione · 1954 was sung by Jorge Ledesma.† En blanco y negro · Alberto Mancione · 1954 is a milonga.† En blanco y negro · Alberto Mancione · 1954 lasts 02:30.†

Credit

Music
Néstor Feria
Lyrics
Fernán Silva Valdés

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Every recording

1 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 5 more we know of

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

  1. Alberto MancioneEarliest we holdMost dancedJorge Ledesma, Héctor Alvarado · Jul 5
    7 dances
    1954
  2. Donato RacciattiNot in our catalogueVíctor Ruiz1959
  3. Edmundo RiveroNot in our catalogue
  4. Hugo del CarrilNot in our catalogue
  5. Donato RacciattiNot in our catalogueVíctor Ruiz
  6. -unspecified guitars-Not in our catalogueAlberto Gómez

Lyrics

Español

Tuve tropilla “de un pelo” yo también como el mejor; tropilla de pelo oscuro, “mismito” como el dolor. Oscuro como mis penas, oscura como mi suerte; en el pago la llamaban la tropilla de la Muerte. Cuatro pingos todos negros, justo como pa' un entierro; cuatro pingos todos negros, como pa' cinchar un muerto. Mas todos en su negrura tenían su pinta clara, como una estrella en la noche, como el lucero en el alba. Uno tenía “el pico blanco”, otro las manos “vendada”, otro, una “estrella” en la frente como manchao de esperanza, otro, con un lunarejo mismo en el medio del anca, como llevando pa' siempre enancada una “luz mala”. Vos china, sos negra de alma, negra como mis caballos; bien oscurita por dentro y con el cuerpo bien blanco... Blanco tu cuerpo y oscura como mis pingos, tu alma, parecés de mi tropilla, ¡perdoná la 'comparancia'!...

English · machine translation

I had a "one hair" troop I also like the best; dark-haired tropilla, "same" as the pain. Dark as my sorrows, dark as my luck; in the pago they called it the troop of Death. Four pingos, all black, just like for a burial; four pingos all black, just like for a dead man's cinch. But all in their blackness they had their light look, like a star in the night, like a star at dawn. One had a "white beak", another had his hands "bandaged", another, a "star" on his forehead as if stained with hope, another one, with a mole even in the middle of his haunch, as if carrying forever a "bad light". You china, you are black of soul, black as my horses; very dark inside and with a very white body... Your body white and dark like my pingos, your soul, you look like you belong to my troop, pardon the 'comparancia'!...

Danced to it

Music from 1954 · danced on film 2020

Where it is danced

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

  1. Teatro ÓperaSan Nicolás
    1 performance

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What we don't know yet4 of 5 known

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Data: recordings, facts and sources

Recordings1

Recorded by Alberto MancioneJul 5, 1954

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In other catalogues2

tango.info · 00828765218122-1-15

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tango.info · 02480002002727-1-12

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Singers1

Sung by Jorge Ledesma

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Is a1

Is a milonga

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Duration1

Duration 02:30

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Listen

  1. En blanco y negroAlberto Mancione · Jorge Ledesma, Héctor Alvarado1954

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