Song
El adiós · Ángel Vargas · 1954
Ángel VargassungtangoRCA VictorWho recorded it
Every version6Earliest we hold: Francisco Canaro, 1938
Pinned at 1954 · Golden Age 1935–1954 · Ángel Vargas recordings indexed 1951–1959
The song
The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.
6 orchestras recorded it
421 Dances filmed to it
Who wrote it
- Music
- Maruja Pacheco Huergo
- Words
- Virgilio San Clemente
- Written
- not yet cited · help fill it
- First played
- not yet cited · help fill it
Source: TangoCloud catalogue
Lyrics
Español
En la tarde que en sombras se moría, buenamente nos dimos el adiós; mi tristeza profunda no veías y al marcharte sonreíamos los dos. Y la desolación, mirándote partir, quebraba de emoción mi pobre voz... El sueño más feliz, moría en el adiós y el cielo para mí se obscureció. En vano el alma con voz velada volcó en la noche la pena... Sólo un silencio profundo y grave lloraba en mi corazón. Sobre el tiempo transcurrido vives siempre en mí, y estos campos que nos vieron juntos sonreír me preguntan si el olvido me curó de ti. Y entre los vientos se van mis quejas muriendo en ecos, buscándote... mientras que lejos otros brazos y otros besos te aprisionan y me dicen que ya nunca has de volver. Cuando vuelva a lucir la primavera, y los campos se pinten de color, otra vez el dolor y los recuerdos de nostalgias llenarán mi corazón. Las aves poblarán de trinos el lugar y el cielo volcará su claridad... Pero mi corazón en sombras vivirá y el ala del dolor te llamará. En vano el alma dirá a la luna con voz velada la pena... Y habrá un silencio profundo y grave llorando en mi corazón.
English · machine translation
In the afternoon that was dying in shadows, we said good-bye to each other; my deep sadness you did not see and when you left, we both smiled. And the desolation, watching you go, broke my poor voice with emotion... The happiest dream, died in the goodbye and the sky darkened for me. In vain the soul with veiled voice poured into the night the sorrow... Only a silence deep and grave cried in my heart. Over the time that has passed you live always in me, and these fields that saw us together smile ask me if oblivion cured me of you. And among the winds my complaints go away dying in echoes, searching for you... while far away other arms and other kisses imprison you and tell me that you will never come back. When the spring comes again and the fields are painted with color, again the pain and the memories of nostalgia will fill my heart. The birds will populate the place with trills and the sky will overturn its clarity... But my heart will live in shadows and the wing of pain will call you. In vain the soul will say to the moon with veiled voice the sorrow... And there will be a silence deep and grave crying in my heart.
Every version
Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone
6 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 12 more we know of
a version people dance tono Dances matched yet: something to listen to
The leader is Osvaldo Pugliese, 1963, with 56% of the 421 filmed dances matched to a version of this song.
24 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.
- Osvaldo PuglieseMost dancedEl adiósOsvaldo PuglieseJorge MacieltangoPhilips235 dances · 56%1963
- Edgardo DonatoEl adiósEdgardo DonatoHoracio LagostangoRCA Victor138 dances · 33%1938
- Ángel VargasEl adiósÁngel VargassungtangoRCA Victor27 dances · 6%1954
- Francisco CanaroEarliest we holdEl adiósFrancisco CanaroRoberto MaidatangoOdeon17 dances · 4%1938
- Color Tango (Roberto Alvarez)El adiósColor Tango (Roberto Alvarez)Roberto Decarretango4 dances · <1%2014
- Orquesta Típica SilencioEl adiósOrquesta Típica SilencioOmar FernándeztangoNo match yet2014
- Hugo del CarrilNot in our catalogue1938
- -unspecified guitars-Not in our catalogue1938
- -unspecified orchestra-Not in our catalogueHugo del Carril1938
- -unspecified guitars-Not in our catalogueIgnacio Corsini · Feb 31938
- -unspecified guitars-Not in our catalogueIgnacio Corsini · Mar 151938
- Armando LacavaNot in our catalogueÁngel Vargas · Jan 281954
- Hugo DíazNot in our catalogue1973
- Rosaura SilvestreNot in our catalogue1995
- Ángel CárdenasNot in our catalogue
- Ignacio CorsiniNot in our catalogue
- Hugo del CarrilNot in our catalogue
- -unspecified guitars-Not in our catalogueIgnacio Corsini
One recording
A dated take, with its sound and the couples dancing it.
Ángel Vargas
El adiósÁngel VargassungtangoRCA VictorCouples filmed dancing this recording · 27 Performances
Recorded the same day
What else Ángel Vargas recorded on Jan 28, 1954.
Danced to it
Music from 1954 · danced on film 2008–2024
2008: 1, 2009: 1, 2011: 1, 2013: 1, 2014: 1, 2015: 2, 2016: 1, 2017: 2, 2022: 1, 2024: 1
Where it is danced
The places our videos show it danced, by performances filmed there.
Filmed sets
One Couple dancing three or four songs at one Occasion, every song known. What was danced on film, not what a DJ played.
The one complete set on film
Damian Mechura and Veronica Vazquez
In the order danced: the video titles number them
- 1ArrabalOsvaldo Pugliese, 1985
- 2El adiósÁngel Vargas, 1954
- 3Valsecito criolloJuan D'Arienzo, 1937
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- EntryPena de amor · Ángel Vargas · 1954Recording
- EntryNoche de locura · Ángel Vargas · 1954Recording
- EntryGuitarra que llora · Ángel Vargas · 1954Recording
- EntryPingo lindo · Ángel Vargas · 1954Recording
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