Song
Como dos extraños · Pedro Laurenz · 1940
Pedro LaurenzJuan Carlos CasastangoRCA VictorWho recorded it
Every version6Earliest we hold: Pedro Laurenz, 1940
Pinned at 1940 · Golden Age 1935–1954 · Pedro Laurenz recordings indexed 1937–1968 · gold: Victor years, 1937–1943
Como dos extraños · Pedro Laurenz · 1940 was sung by Juan Carlos Casas.† Como dos extraños · Pedro Laurenz · 1940 is a tango.† Como dos extraños · Pedro Laurenz · 1940 lasts 02:30.†
The song
The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.
5 orchestras recorded it
66 Dances filmed to it
Who wrote it
- Music
- Pedro Laurenz
- Words
- José María Contursi
- Written
- not yet cited · help fill it
- First played
- not yet cited · help fill it
Source: TangoCloud catalogue
Lyrics
Español
Me acobardó la soledad y el miedo enorme de morir lejos de ti... ¡Qué ganas tuve de llorar sintiendo junto a mí la burla de la realidad! Y el corazón me suplicó que te buscara y que le diera tu querer... Me lo pedía el corazón y entonces te busqué creyéndote mi salvación... Y ahora que estoy frente a ti parecemos, ya ves, dos extraños... Lección que por fin aprendí: ¡cómo cambian las cosas los años! Angustia de saber muertas ya la ilusión y la fe... Perdón si me ves lagrimear... ¡Los recuerdos me han hecho mal! Palideció la luz del sol al escucharte fríamente conversar... Fue tan distinto nuestro amor y duele comprobar que todo, todo terminó. ¡Qué gran error volverte a ver para llevarme destrozado el corazón! Son mil fantasmas, al volver burlándose de mí, las horas de ese muerto ayer...
English · machine translation
I was cowed by loneliness and the enormous fear of dying far from you... How I wanted to cry feeling next to me the mockery of reality! And my heart begged me to look for you and to give it your love... My heart asked me to do so and then I looked for you believing you to be my salvation... And now that I am in front of you we seem, you see, two strangers... Lesson I finally learned: how the years change things! Anguish of knowing that illusion and faith illusion and faith... Forgive me if you see me cry... Memories have made me sick! The sunlight paled as I listened to you coldly conversing... Our love was so different and it hurts to see that everything, everything is over. What a great mistake to see you again to take my heart shattered! There are a thousand ghosts, coming back mocking me, the hours of that dead yesterday...
Every version
Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone
6 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 11 more we know of
a version people dance tono Dances matched yet: something to listen to
The leader is Pedro Laurenz, with 76% of the 66 filmed dances matched to a version of this song.
11 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.
- Francisco CanaroComo dos extrañosFrancisco CanaroErnesto FamátangoOdeon8 dances · 12%1940
- José BassoComo dos extrañosJosé BassoFloreal RuiztangoOdeon7 dances · 11%1961
- Orquesta Típica ImperialComo dos extrañosOrquesta Típica ImperialJulio César Fernántango1 dance · 2%2006
- Armando PontierComo dos extrañosArmando PontierOscar FerraritangoCBS ColumbiaNo match yet1960
- Ciriaco Ortiz, Ubaldo Aquiles De LioNot in our catalogue1965
- Pedro LaurenzNot in our catalogue1966
- Adriana VarelaNot in our catalogue1998
- Adriana VarelaNot in our catalogue
- María GrañaNot in our catalogue
- Roberto GoyenecheNot in our catalogue
- Susana RinaldiNot in our catalogue
- Juan Carlos CáceresNot in our catalogue
- Juan Carlos CáceresNot in our catalogueJuan Carlos Cáceres
- Néstor MarconiNot in our catalogue-unspecified male-
- -unspecified female-Not in our catalogue
One recording
A dated take, with its sound and the couples dancing it.
Pedro Laurenz
Como dos extrañosPedro LaurenzJuan Carlos CasastangoRCA VictorCouples filmed dancing this recording · 27 Performances
Recorded the same day
What else Pedro Laurenz recorded on Jun 28, 1940.
Danced to it
Music from 1940 · danced on film 2009–2025
2009: 1, 2011: 2, 2013: 3, 2014: 1, 2016: 1, 2019: 1, 2020: 1, 2021: 2, 2023: 1, 2025: 1
Read more
- EntryPedro LaurenzOrchestra
- EntryJuan Carlos CasasSinger
- EntryNo me extraña · Pedro Laurenz · 1940Recording
- EntryImprovisando · Pedro Laurenz · 1940Recording
- EntryDesconsuelo · Pedro Laurenz · 1940Recording
- EntryComo dos extraños · Pedro Laurenz · 1968Recording
- EntryCorazón encadenado · Pedro Laurenz · 1942Recording
- EntryComo dos extraños · Francisco Canaro · 1940Recording
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Connected
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Danced at
- WinterTangoNapoli1 video
Danced by
- Carlos Podazza2 videos
- Javier Diaz2 videos
- Pablo Gomez1 video
- Eliana Sosa1 video
- Diaz Gonzalez1 video
- Matías Arriazu1 video
- Patricia Juarez1 video
- Cecilia Stanzione1 video
- lucas martin1 video
- Ricardo Culotta1 video
- César Angeleri1 video
Data: recordings, facts and sources
Issued on record
Label, catalogue and matrix numbers of each record. A year is the year the record was issued. Source: TangoCloud catalogue.
- 1940
Victor 39016 · Pedro Laurenz Y Su Orquesta Típica
Shellac · Argentina · side A
Recordings1
Recorded by Pedro LaurenzJun 28, 1940
In other catalogues15
tango.info · 02480002043157-1-12
tango.info · 02480002101123-2-153
tango.info · 08427328149037-2-3
tango.info · 02480002027416-1-5
tango.info · 02480002032007-1-8
tango.info · 02480002032014-1-2
tango.info · 02480002102533-1-19
tango.info · 02480002114420-1-10
tango.info · 02480002152491-1-18
tango.info · 02480002301523-1-4
tango.info · 02480002332220-2-4
tango.info · 02480002708032-1-1
tango.info · 04024236204243-1-5
tango.info · 08427328130820-1-8
tango.info · 08427328134149-1-8
Singers1
Sung by Juan Carlos Casas
Is a1
Is a tango
Duration1
Duration 02:30
Audio feature15
Audio feature 129.2
Audio feature 0.935
Audio feature F
Audio feature major
Audio feature 0.927
Audio feature -21.2
Audio feature 0.392
Audio feature 0.25
Audio feature 0.305
Audio feature 0.001
Audio feature 0.0
Audio feature 0.694
Audio feature 129.6
Audio feature 64.8
Audio feature step
Vocal1
Vocal sung
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