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Orillas del Plata · Juan D'Arienzo · 1935

Juan D'ArienzoinstrumentalvalsRCA Victor
Music by Juan Maglio, lyrics by Juan Félix Maglio. 2 recordings in our catalogue, 1928–1935.

Pinned at 1935 · Golden Age 1935–1954 · Juan D'Arienzo recordings indexed 1928–1975 · gold: With Biagi, 1935–1938

Orillas del Plata · Juan D'Arienzo · 1935 is a vals.† Orillas del Plata · Juan D'Arienzo · 1935 lasts 02:46.† Orillas del Plata · Juan D'Arienzo · 1935: Rodolfo Biagi's first-ever recording session with D'Arienzo, played as the start of the orchestra's new rhythmic era, though it was not yet commercially successful.†

The song

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2 orchestras recorded it

19 Dances filmed to it

Who wrote it

Music
Juan Maglio
Words
Juan Félix Maglio
Written
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Lyrics

Español

Van pasando solitarias sobre mi vida, las naves rotas de mi dolor; sin hallar un puerto sin hallar amparo sin contemplar un faro que alumbre amor. Y mientras van surcando los negros mares de mis pesares, claman por ti; que abandonaste en la ribera sin primavera de mi vivir. Solas van... por doquier y solas siguen a impulsos de las penas del corazón; no hay un alma que las contemple con las miradas de la pasión; ¿Dónde irán?... no lo sé; tal vez muy lejos a hundirse en las borrascas de la aflicción en esa noche cuando infinito resuene el grito del aguilón. Llevan tu olvido cruel y doloridos se van con el recuerdo fiel de lo que nunca olvidarán. Y así van solitarias y entristecidas mirando el cielo de mi clamor; la impulsan mis desvelos las lleva mi delirio, las conduce el martirio del sinsabor; y no encuentran un puerto ni una ribera que las acoja con caridad; los mares que atraviesan yacen desiertos como los campos de soledad.

English · machine translation

They are passing lonely over my life, the broken ships of my pain without finding a port without finding shelter without beholding a lighthouse to light up love. And as they sail the black seas of my sorrows they cry out for you; that you abandoned on the shore without spring of my life. Alone they go... everywhere and alone they go on at the impulse of the sorrows of the heart; there is no soul to behold them with the glances of passion; Where will they go... I don't know; perhaps far away to sink in the squalls of affliction in that night when infinite resound the cry of the eagle. They carry your cruel oblivion and in pain they leave with the faithful memory of what they will never forget. And so they go lonely and saddened looking at the sky of my clamor; they are driven by my sleeplessness they are driven by my delirium, they are driven by the martyrdom of the lack of taste; and they do not find a port nor a shore that welcomes them with charity; the seas they cross lie deserted like the fields of loneliness.

Every version

Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone

The catalogue holds 2 recordings of this song by 2 orchestras, 1928 to 1935.
1920’30
Recordings of Orillas del Plata · Juan D'Arienzo · 1935 by year, taller the more they are danced · 2 of 2 recordings carry a year · read Nov 1, 2026

2 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 6 more we know of

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  1. Juan D'ArienzoMost dancedOrillas del PlataJuan D'ArienzoinstrumentalvalsRCA Victor
    19 dances
    1935
  2. Juan MaglioEarliest we holdOrillas del PlataJuan Magliosinger unknownvals
    No match yet
    1928
  3. Juan Félix MaglioNot in our catalogueFeb 31928
  4. Juan Félix MaglioNot in our catalogueFeb 61928
  5. Juan Bautista GuidoNot in our catalogueNov 41929
  6. Juan Félix MaglioNot in our catalogueCarlos Viván · Mar 151930
  7. Adolfo PérezNot in our catalogueJul 271949
  8. Miguel VillasboasNot in our catalogue1979

One recording

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Juan D'Arienzo

Orillas del PlataJuan D'ArienzoinstrumentalvalsRCA Victor

Couples filmed dancing this recording · 19 Performances

Danced to it

Music from 1935 · danced on film 2010–2025

20102025
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

2010: 1, 2015: 1, 2017: 3, 2019: 1, 2021: 2, 2024: 1, 2025: 1

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Danced alongside it

Our data: the recordings most often danced in the same filmed Performance as this one (one Couple dancing one to eight songs). Nearer the middle, more Performances.

  1. 1Milonga del recuerdoJuan D'Arienzo, 1939 · danced together in 2 Performances
  2. 2FuimosOsvaldo Pugliese, 1946 · danced together in 2 Performances
  3. 3No me extrañaPedro Laurenz, 1940 · danced together in 2 Performances
  4. 4Todo es amorOrquesta Romantica Milonguera, 2016 · danced together in 2 Performances

From TangoTube's videos · our data

Data: recordings, facts and sources

In other catalogues6

tango.info · 04024236202386-1-1

tango.info · 02480002332022-1-6

tango.info · 07798089730798-1-6

tango.info · 00828766933024-1-7

tango.info · 02480002003014-1-11

tango.info · 02480002337065-2-4

Is a1

Is a vals

Duration1

Duration 02:46

Audio feature12

Audio feature 105.5

Audio feature 0.959

Audio feature F#

Audio feature major

Audio feature 0.764

Audio feature -22.8

Audio feature 0.389

Audio feature 0.436

Audio feature 0.104

Audio feature 0.109

Audio feature 0.0

Audio feature 0.787

Notes1

Rodolfo Biagi's first-ever recording session with D'Arienzo, played as the start of the orchestra's new rhythmic era, though it was not yet commercially successful.

Vocal1

Vocal instrumental

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  1. Orillas del PlataJuan Magliosinger unknown

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