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Niebla del Riachuelo · Lucio Demare · 1957

Music by Juan Carlos Cobián, lyrics by Enrique Cadícamo. 7 recordings in our catalogue, 1937–2006.
1937: 1 · danced 25 times1954: 1 · danced 1 times1957: 1 · danced 2 times1958: 1 · danced 1 times2005: 1 · danced 0 times2006: 2 · danced 0 times
1937’50’60’70’80’90’002006
records madedanced on film, by the record’s year· our catalogue

1937: 1, 25; 1954: 1, 1; 1957: 1, 2; 1958: 1, 1; 2005: 1, 0; 2006: 2, 0

  1. Orquesta Típica Imperial recorded it in 2005 and 2006.

    How we know

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

Credit

Music
Juan Carlos Cobián
Lyrics
Enrique Cadícamo

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Every recording

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

1930’40’50’60’70’80’90’00

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

  1. Lucio DemareDisc Jockey
    2 dances
    1957
  2. Osvaldo FresedoEarliest we holdMost dancedRoberto Ray · RCA Victor · Sep 17
    25 dances
    1937
  3. José SalaAlfredo Belusi · Columbia · Sep 22
    1 dance
    1954
  4. Orquesta Típica Fervor de Buenos AiresDiego Dimartino
    Not danced on film yet
    2006
  5. Los Astros Del TangoMusic Hall
    1 dance
    1958
  6. Orquesta Típica ImperialOmar Garré · Jul 26
    Not danced on film yet
    2005
  7. Orquesta Típica ImperialOmar Garré · Aug 1
    Not danced on film yet
    2006
  8. Alberto VilaNot in our catalogue1937
  9. -unspecified guitars-Not in our catalogueOscar Serpa1937
  10. Terig TucciNot in our catalogue1957
  11. Tita MerelloNot in our catalogue1960
  12. Lucio DemareNot in our catalogueJul 301968
  13. Orquesta Típica PorteñaNot in our catalogueRoberto Goyeneche · Jul 21976
  14. Tita MerelloNot in our catalogue
  15. Edmundo RiveroNot in our catalogue
  16. Miguel MonteroNot in our catalogue
  17. Roberto GoyenecheNot in our catalogue
  18. Susana RinaldiNot in our catalogue
  19. Anibal Arias, Osvaldo José MontesNot in our catalogue
  20. Carlos FigariNot in our catalogueTita Merello

Lyrics

Español

Turbio fondeadero donde van a recalar, barcos que en el muelle para siempre han de quedar... Sombras que se alargan en la noche del dolor; náufragos del mundo que han perdido el corazón... Puentes y cordajes donde el viento viene a aullar, barcos carboneros que jamás han de zarpar... Torvo cementerio de las naves que al morir, sueñan sin embargo que hacia el mar han de partir... ¡Niebla del Riachuelo!.. Amarrado al recuerdo yo sigo esperando... ¡Niebla del Riachuelo!... De ese amor, para siempre, me vas alejando... Nunca más volvió, nunca más la vi, nunca más su voz nombró mi nombre junto a mí... esa misma voz que dijo: '¡Adiós!'. Sueña, marinero, con tu viejo bergantín, bebe tus nostalgias en el sordo cafetín... Llueve sobre el puerto, mientras tanto mi canción; llueve lentamente sobre tu desolación... Anclas que ya nunca, nunca más, han de levar, bordas de lanchones sin amarras que soltar... Triste caravana sin destino ni ilusión, como un barco preso en la 'botella del figón'...

English · machine translation

Shady anchorage where they are going to land, ships that in the dock must remain forever... Shadows that lengthen in the night of pain..; Castaways of the world who have lost their hearts... Bridges and ropes where the wind comes to howl..., coal ships that will never set sail... A dull cemetery of the ships that in dying, yet dream that they will sail away to the sea... Fog of the Riachuelo!... Tied to the memory I am still waiting... Fog of the Riachuelo!... Of that love, forever, you are taking me away... She never came back, I never saw her again, never again her voice named my name next to me... that same voice that said: 'Farewell! Dream, sailor, of your old brigantine, drink your nostalgia in the deaf cafe... It rains on the harbor, meanwhile my song; It rains slowly on your desolation... Anchors that will never, never again weigh.., Boats' gunwales with no moorings to cast off... Sad caravan without destination or illusion, like a ship imprisoned in the 'bottle of the figón'...

Danced to it

Music from 1957 · danced on film 2019–2023

20192023
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

2019: 1, 2022: 1, 2023: 1

Andres Sautel & Fatima Vitale2023 · 3:17

Through the decades

  1. The 2010sGustavo Corrado2019
  2. The 2020sAndres Sautel & Fatima Vitale2023

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What we don't know yet4 of 5 known

The day it was recorded.

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  1. Niebla del RiachueloOsvaldo Fresedo · Roberto Ray1937

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