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Mi dolor · Ángel Vargas · 1955

Ángel VargasÁngel VargastangoRCA Victor
Music by Carlos Marcucci, lyrics by Manuel Meaños. 10 recordings in our catalogue, 1947–2017.

Pinned at 1955 · Nuevo 1955–1984 · Ángel Vargas recordings indexed 1951–1959

The work

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Music
Carlos Marcucci
Lyrics
Manuel Meaños

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Recordings

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The catalogue holds 10 recordings of this song by 10 orchestras, 1947 to 2017.

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1940’50’60’70’80’90’00’10
Recordings of Mi dolor · Ángel Vargas · 1955 by year, taller the more they are danced · 10 of 10 recordings carry a year · read Nov 1, 2026

10 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 18 more we know of

The leader is Juan D'Arienzo, 1972, with 80% of the 440 filmed dances matched to a version of this song.

12 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. Juan D'ArienzoMost dancedMi dolorJuan D'ArienzoOsvaldo RamostangoRCA Victor
    353 dances · 80%
    1972
  2. Alfredo De AngelisMi dolorAlfredo De AngelisinstrumentaltangoOdeon
    53 dances · 12%
    1957
  3. Los Solistas De D'ArienzoMi dolorLos Solistas De D'ArienzoOsvaldo RamostangoMusic Hall
    8 dances · 2%
    1972
  4. Julio De CaroMi dolorJulio De CaroOrlando Verritango
    6 dances · 1%
    1950
  5. Ángel VargasMi dolorÁngel Vargassinger unknowntangoRCA Victor
    6 dances · 1%
    1955
  6. Tango BardoMi dolorTango Bardosinger unknowntango
    5 dances · 1%
    2017
  7. Héctor VarelaMi dolorHéctor Varelainstrumentaltango
    4 dances · <1%
    1953
  8. Sexteto TangoMi dolorSexteto TangoJorge Macieltango
    3 dances · <1%
    1969
  9. Domingo FedericoEarliest we holdMi dolorDomingo FedericoOscar LarrocatangoRCA Victor
    2 dances · <1%
    1947
  10. José BassoMi dolorJosé BassoGloria Díaztango
    No match yet
    1985
  11. Carlos MarcucciNot in our catalogue1926
  12. Carlos MarcucciNot in our catalogueRoberto Díaz · May 231930
  13. Orquesta Típica VictorNot in our catalogueAlberto Gómez · Aug 111930
  14. Francisco AlongiNot in our catalogue1932
  15. Manuel PizarroNot in our catalogue1933
  16. Héctor MauréNot in our catalogue1950
  17. -unspecified guitars-Not in our catalogueHéctor Mauré1954
  18. Edelmiro D'AmarioNot in our catalogueÁngel Vargas · Nov 241955
  19. Los siete del tangoNot in our catalogueNov 31966
  20. Fulvio SalamancaNot in our catalogue1969

Lyrics

Español

Vuelvo de tierras muy lejanas donde ayer fuera a buscar olvido a mi dolor, consuelo al alma que sufrió, al creer en los engaños y promesas del amor. Rumbo al olvido, que es un bálsamo al sufrir, partí llevando en mi amargura el cruel recuerdo de la ventura que en otros tiempos junto a ti creí vivir. Fui esclavo de tu corazón y a tus caprichos yo cedí y me pagaste con traición. Hoy, curada mi alma de su herida, pienso que nunca he de volver a mendigar tu querer. Porque allá donde fui mis pesares a olvidar del amor conocí las delicias hasta embriagar. Mi dolor llegó a curar. Mi pasión sólo dio los sentidos para amar, pero mi alma dejó su pureza conservar y así pronto llegó sus tristezas a olvidar. Pero hoy te he visto junto a mi lado pasar. Mi corazón tan rápido latió que aquella herida que creí curar ante tu vista de improviso se entreabrió, pues no bastaron para calmar mi dolor ni las caricias ni el olvido. De nuevo sufro por ser querido y hoy, como entonces, soy esclavo de tu amor.

English · machine translation

I return from far away lands where I went yesterday I went to seek oblivion to my pain, consolation to the soul that suffered, by believing in the deceptions and promises of love. On my way to oblivion, which is a balm for suffering, I departed carrying in my bitterness the cruel memory of the fortune that in other times I thought I lived with you. I was slave of your heart and I yielded to your whims and you repaid me with betrayal. Today, my soul healed of its wound, I think that I will never again to beg for your love. Because wherever I went my sorrows to forget of love I knew the delights to intoxicate. My pain came to heal. My passion only gave the senses to love, but my soul let its purity to preserve and so soon came its sorrows to forget. But today I saw you by my side pass by. My heart beat so fast that the wound I thought was healed at the sight of you suddenly opened up, for neither caresses nor oblivion were enough to soothe my pain neither caresses nor oblivion were enough to calm my pain. Once again I suffer for being loved and today, as then, I am a slave to your love.

The versions dancers use

Music from 1955 · danced on film 2013–2025

20132025
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

2013: 1, 2016: 1, 2024: 1, 2025: 1

Carlos Rivarola3:22

Through the decades

  1. The 2010sGianluca Berti2013
  2. The 2020sFiamma Clozza & Gustavo Vargas2024

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  1. Mi dolorDomingo FedericoOscar Larroca

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