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Pocas palabras · 2017

· tango · 2017
Music by Ricardo Tanturi, lyrics by Enrique Cadícamo. 3 recordings in our catalogue, 1941–2023.

Who recorded it

Every version3

Earliest we hold: Ricardo Tanturi, 1941

  1. Ricardo TanturiAlberto Castillo1941
  2. Orquesta Típica Tanturi20172023

Recorded in 2017, during the Electronic and festival era (2000–).

2017

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2017
Contents1The song2Who wrote it3Lyrics4Every version5One recording

The song

ORQUESTA TÍPICA TANTURIOrquesta Típica TANTURIPOCAS PALABRASTango2017

The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.

2 orchestras recorded it

379 Dances filmed to it

Who wrote it

Music
Ricardo Tanturi
Words
Enrique Cadícamo
Written
not yet cited · help fill it
First played
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Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Lyrics

Español

No pretendo remover las cenizas del ayer, de ese ayer inolvidable... Sólo quiero hacerte ver que aunque no lo quieras creer hay amores imborrables... Después de tanto, vuelvo a hallarte, ¡y qué emoción siento al mirarte! Hay un loco palpitar en mi viejo corazón y es que al fin te vuelvo a hallar... Pocas palabras, ¡vieja amiga!... Pocas palabras es mejor... Ya ves... el mundo sigue igual sin nuestra unión sentimental... Pocas palabras de lo de antes... No conversemos más de amor, de aquel amor que ya pasó, pero que aun no murió... No me duele confesar que jamás pude borrar el romance que vivimos... Y que atado a tu querer he llegado hasta beber pa’ olvidarte con el vino... Y en este encuentro memorable ¿cuál de los dos es el culpable?... El culpable he sido yo, el culpable de soñar, ser el dueño de tu amor…

English · machine translation

I do not intend to stir the ashes of yesterday, of that unforgettable yesterday... I just want to make you see that even if you don't want to believe it there are indelible loves... After so long, I find you again, and what a thrill I feel when I look at you! There is a crazy palpitation in my old heart and it's that I finally find you again... Few words, old friend!... Few words is better... You see... the world remains the same without our sentimental sentimental union... Few words about before... Let's not talk about love anymore, of that love that has already passed, but which has not yet not yet dead... It doesn't hurt me to confess that I could never erase the romance we lived... And that tied to your love I've even gone so far as to drink to forget you with wine... And in this memorable encounter which of us is to blame?... The guilty one has been me, the guilty of dreaming, to be the owner of your love...

Every version

Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone

The catalogue holds 3 recordings of this song by 2 orchestras, 1941 to 2023.
1940’50’60’70’80’90’00’10’20
Recordings of Pocas palabras · 2017 by year, taller the more they are danced · 3 of 3 recordings carry a year · read Nov 8, 2026

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

a version people dance tono Dances matched yet: something to listen to

The leader is Ricardo Tanturi, 1941, with 100% of the 379 filmed dances matched to a version of this song.

15 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. Ricardo TanturiEarliest we holdMost dancedPocas palabras · Ricardo Tanturi · Alberto Castillo · tango · Jun 16, 1941 · RCA Victor
    379 dances · 100%
    1941
  2. Ensemble HyperionNot in our catalogueRuben Peloni

One recording

A dated take, with its sound and the couples dancing it.

ORQUESTA TÍPICA TANTURIOrquesta Típica TANTURIPOCAS PALABRASTango2017

Orquesta Típica Tanturi

Pocas palabras · Orquesta Típica Tanturi · tango · 2017

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