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Loca · Quinteto Don Pancho (Francisco Canaro) · 1938

Music by Manuel Jovés. 10 recordings in our catalogue, 1938–2015.
1938: 1 · danced 2 times1941: 1 · danced 0 times1942: 1 · danced 160 times1946: 1 · danced 1 times1950: 1 · danced 0 times1955: 1 · danced 9 times1964: 1 · danced 0 times1975: 1 · danced 2 times2006: 1 · danced 0 times2015: 1 · danced 165 times
1938’50’60’70’80’90’002015
records madedanced on film, by the record’s year· our catalogue

1938: 1, 2; 1941: 1, 0; 1942: 1, 160; 1946: 1, 1; 1950: 1, 0; 1955: 1, 9; 1964: 1, 0; 1975: 1, 2; 2006: 1, 0; 2015: 1, 165

  1. Tango Bardo’s 2015 version holds 48% of its dancing (165 of 339).

    How we know

    Of the dances to its 10 recordings in our catalogue. Dances count filmed Occasions on TangoTube.

  2. Juan D'Arienzo recorded it in 1942, 1946 and 1955.

    How we know

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

Credit

Music
Manuel Jovés

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Every recording

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

1930’40’50’60’70’80’90’00’10

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

  1. Juan D'ArienzoInstrumental · RCA Victor · Apr 22
    160 dances
    1942
  2. Juan D'ArienzoInstrumental · RCA Victor · Oct 18
    1 dance
    1946
  3. Juan D'ArienzoInstrumental · RCA Victor · Dec 22
    9 dances
    1955
  4. Alfredo De AngelisJuan Carlos Godoy · Odeon · May 1
    Not danced on film yet
    1964
  5. Tango BardoMost dancedInstrumental · Aug 1
    165 dances
    2015
  6. Orquesta Típica Fervor de Buenos AiresInstrumental
    Not danced on film yet
    2006
  7. Los Solistas De D'ArienzoInstrumental · Music Hall
    2 dances
    1975
  8. Quinteto Don Pancho (Francisco Canaro)Earliest we holdInstrumental · Odeon · Jun 20
    2 dances
    1938
  9. Enrique MoraAmanda Vidal · Nov 6
    Not danced on film yet
    1950
  10. Orquesta Típica VictorInstrumental · RCA Victor · Jul 8
    Not danced on film yet
    1941
  11. Guillermo Barbieri, José RicardoNot in our catalogueCarlos Gardel1922
  12. -unspecified orchestra-Not in our catalogueInstrumental1924
  13. Quinteto Don Pancho, dir. Francisco CanaroNot in our catalogueInstrumental · Jun 201938
  14. Juan CanaroNot in our catalogue-unspecified female- · Oct 41954
  15. Maria De La FuenteNot in our catalogue
  16. Ernesto FrancoNot in our catalogueInstrumental
  17. Los Autenticos ReyesNot in our catalogueInstrumental

Lyrics

Español

Loca me llaman mis amigos, que sólo son testigos de mi liviano amor. Loca, ¿qué saben lo que siento, ni qué remordimiento se oculta en mi interior? Yo tengo, con alegrías, que disfrazar mi tristeza, y que hacen de mi cabeza las pesadillas huir. Yo tengo que ahogar en vino la pena que me devora. Cuando mi corazón llora, mis labios deben reír. Yo, si a un hombre lo desprecio, tengo que fingirle amores; y admiración, cuando es necio; y si es cobarde, temores. Yo que no he pertenecido al ambiente en que ahora estoy, he de olvidar lo que he sido y he de olvidar lo que soy. Loca me dicen mis amigos, que sólo son testigos de mi liviano amor. Loca, ¿qué saben lo que siento, ni qué remordimiento se oculta en mi interior? Allá muy lejos, muy lejos, donde el sol cae cada día, un tranquilo hogar había y en el hogar unos viejos. La vida y su encanto era una muchacha que huyó sin decirles dónde fuera, y esa muchacha soy yo. Hoy no existe ya la casa, hoy no existen ya los viejos hoy la muchacha muy lejos, sufriendo la vida pasa. Y al caer todos los días en aquella tierra el sol, caen con él mis alegrías y muere mi corazón.

English · machine translation

Crazy my friends call me, who are only witnesses of my light love. Crazy, what do they know what I feel, nor what remorse is hidden inside me? I have, with joys to disguise my sadness, and that make from my head the nightmares flee. I have to drown in wine the sorrow that devours me. When my heart cries my lips must laugh. I, if I despise a man, I must pretend to love him; and admiration, when he is foolish; and if he is a coward, fears. I who have not belonged to the environment in which I am now, I must forget what I have been and I must forget what I am. My friends tell me I'm crazy, who are only witnesses of my light love. Crazy, what do they know what I feel, nor what remorse is hidden inside me? Far, far away, far away where the sun falls every day, there was a quiet home and in the home some old people. Life and its charm was a girl who ran away without telling them where she went, and that girl is me. Today the house no longer exists, today the old people no longer exist today the girl is far away, suffering life goes by. And as the sun sets every day on that land the sun my joys fall with it and my heart dies.

Danced to it

Music from 1938 · danced on film 2010–2013

20102013
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

2010: 1, 2013: 1

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