The Cabeceo

We've caught your eye across the milonga. Like any good tango, this starts with consent — nothing optional runs until you say so.Cookies only with your yes. What we store.

Skip to content

Song

Volvé · Edgardo Donato · 1932

Music by Edgardo Donato, lyrics by Luis Bayón Herrera. 4 recordings in our catalogue, 1932–1955.
1932: 3 · danced 3 times1955: 1 · danced 1 times
1932’40’501955
records madedanced on film, by the record’s year· our catalogue

1932: 3, 3; 1955: 1, 1

  1. Edgardo Donato recorded it in 1932 and 1955.

    How we know

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

Volvé · Edgardo Donato · 1932: A heavy lyric in which a woman loves a man who is awful to her; Lavocah calls it the tango version of Billie Holiday's 'My Man'.†

Credit

Music
Edgardo Donato
Lyrics
Luis Bayón Herrera

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Every recording

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

1930’40’50

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

  1. Osvaldo FresedoLuis Díaz · Brunswick
    Not danced on film yet
    1932
  2. Edgardo DonatoMercedes Carne · Brunswick
    Not danced on film yet
    1932
  3. Edgardo DonatoNilda Marino · Pampa · Dec 14
    1 dance
    1955
  4. Adolfo CarabelliEarliest we holdMost dancedMercedes Simone · Jul 26
    3 dances
    1932
  5. Edgardo DonatoNot in our catalogueMercedes Carné1930
  6. -unspecified guitars-Not in our catalogueAgustín Magaldi1930
  7. Carlos Di SarliNot in our catalogueMercedes Carné1931
  8. Edgardo DonatoNot in our catalogueMercedes Carné1931
  9. Edgardo DonatoNot in our catalogueMercedes Carné · Nov 211931
  10. -unspecified orchestra-Not in our catalogueLibertad Lamarque · Aug 51932
  11. Manuel PizarroNot in our catalogueManuel Pizarro · Oct 41934
  12. Francisco RotundoNot in our catalogueEnrique Campos · Dec 51956
  13. Libertad LamarqueNot in our catalogue
  14. -unspecified guitars-Not in our catalogue

What we don't know yet4 of 5 known

The day it was recorded.

Data: recordings, facts and sources

Notes1

A heavy lyric in which a woman loves a man who is awful to her; Lavocah calls it the tango version of Billie Holiday's 'My Man'.

Single source

Vocal1

Vocal sung

Single source

Listen

  1. VolvéAdolfo Carabelli · Mercedes Simone1932

Ask Tangopedia

Answers only from cited facts, each with its source.