Song
El motivo · Alberto Mancione · 1951
Alberto MancioneFrancisco FiorentinotangoWho recorded it
Every version15Earliest we hold: Julio De Caro, 1942
Pinned at 1951 · Golden Age 1935–1954 · Alberto Mancione recordings indexed 1950–1956
The song
The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.
13 orchestras recorded it
157 Dances filmed to it
Who wrote it
- Music
- Juan Carlos Cobián
- Words
- Pascual Contursi
- Written
- not yet cited · help fill it
- First played
- Jul 25, 1919, Teatro Nacional
Source: TangoCloud catalogue · the premiere
Lyrics
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Mina que fue en otro tiempo la más papa y en esas noches tangueras fue la reina del festín. Hoy no tiene pa' ponerse ni zapatos ni vestidos, anda enferma y el amigo no aportó para el . Ya no tienen sus ojazos esos fuertes resplandores y en su cara los colores se le ven palidecer. Está enferma, sufre y llora y manya con sentimiento de que así, enferma y sin más naide la va a querer. Pobre que ha tenido a la gente rechiflada y supo con la mirada conquistar una pasión. Hoy no tiene quien se arrime por cariño a su . ¡Pobre arrabalera que quedó sin corazón! Y cuando de los bandoneones se oyen las notas de un tango, pobre florcita de fango siente en su alma vibrar las nostalgias de otros tiempos de placeres y de amores, ¡hoy sólo son sinsabores que la invitan a llorar!
English · machine translation
Mina who was once the most papa milonguera and in those tango nights she was the queen of the feast. Today she has no shoes or dresses neither shoes nor dresses, she is sick and her friend did not contribute to the bulín. Her big eyes no longer have no longer have those strong glares and in his face the colors pale on her face. She is sick, she suffers and cries and manya with feeling that this way, sick and without wind no one will love her anymore. Poor paica who has had the people reproached and knew how to conquer a passion to conquer a passion. Today she has no one to come close for affection to her catrera. Poor little paica who was left without a heart! And when from the bandoneons the notes of a tango are heard, poor little mud flower feels in her soul vibrating the nostalgia of other times of pleasures and loves, today they are only sorrows that invite her to weep!
Every version
Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone
15 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 12 more we know of
a version people dance tono Dances matched yet: something to listen to
The leader is Aníbal Troilo, with 68% of the 157 filmed dances matched to a version of this song.
6 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.
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- Juan Carlos CobianEl motivoJuan Carlos Cobiantango30 dances · 19%1944
- Osvaldo PuglieseEl motivoOsvaldo PugliesetangoPhilips8 dances · 5%1966
- Roberto GoyenecheEl motivoRoberto Goyenechesungtango6 dances · 4%1968
- Alberto MarinoEl motivoAlberto Marinosungtango3 dances · 2%1947
- Julio De CaroEarliest we holdEl motivoJulio De Carotango2 dances · 1%1942
- Aníbal Troilo y Astor PiazzollaEl motivoAníbal Troilo y Astor PiazzollainstrumentaltangoRCA Victor2 dances · 1%1970
- Eduardo Del PianoEl motivoEduardo Del PianoÁngel VargastangoRCA VictorNo match yet1949
- Alberto MancioneEl motivoAlberto MancioneFrancisco FiorentinotangoNo match yet1951
- José BassoEl motivoJosé BassoFloreal RuiztangoMusic HallNo match yet1962
- Horacio SalganEl motivoHoracio SalgantangoPhilipsNo match yet1965
- Reynaldo NicheleEl motivoReynaldo NicheletangoMicrofonNo match yet1965
- Nuevo Quinteto Real (Horacio Salgán)El motivoNuevo Quinteto Real (Horacio Salgán)tangoPhilipsNo match yet1987
- Roberto FirpoNot in our catalogue1919
- José RicardoNot in our catalogueCarlos Gardel1920
- Emilio BalcarceNot in our catalogueAlberto Marino · Nov 61947
- Ciriaco Ortiz, Ubaldo Aquiles De LioNot in our catalogue1965
- Edmundo RiveroNot in our catalogue
- Jorge VidalNot in our catalogue
- Susana RinaldiNot in our catalogue
One recording
A dated take, with its sound and the couples dancing it.
Alberto Mancione
El motivoAlberto MancioneFrancisco FiorentinotangoNo couple filmed dancing this recording yet
Recorded the same day
What else Alberto Mancione recorded on Mar 30, 1951.
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- EntryTinta roja · Alberto Mancione · 1950Recording
- EntryEl motivo · José Basso · 1962Recording
- EntryEl motivo · Eduardo Del Piano · 1949Recording
- EntryEl refrán · Alberto Mancione · 1951Recording
- EntryEl cencerro · Alberto Mancione · 1951Recording
- EntryRetintín · Alberto Mancione · 1951Recording
- EntryLorenzo · Alberto Mancione · 1952Recording
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