Song
La luz de un fósforo · Horacio Salgan · 1969
Horacio SalganEdmundo RiverotangoPhilipsWho recorded it
Every version2Earliest we hold: Aníbal Troilo, 1943
Pinned at 1969 · Nuevo 1955–1984 · Horacio Salgan recordings indexed 1950–1969
The song
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2 orchestras recorded it
21 Dances filmed to it
Who wrote it
- Music
- Alberto Suárez Villanueva
- Words
- Enrique Cadícamo
- Written
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Source: TangoCloud catalogue
Lyrics
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Nos encontramos, tú y yo, y a conversar nos detuvimos. Un algo raro tenías cuando callabas, cuando reías... La esgrima sentimental al fin surgió la tarde aquella. Después... ¡qué poco quedó! El viento todo lo llevó... La luz de un fósforo fue nuestro amor pasajero. Duró tan poco... lo sé... como el fulgor que da un lucero... La luz de un fósforo fue, nada más, nuestro idilio. Otra ilusión que se va del corazón y que no vuelve más. En todo, siempre el color es del cristal con que se mira. De rosa, yo te veía, cuando callabas, cuando reías. Después, con otro cristal, cambió el color y ya no eras... La vida es toda ilusión y un prisma es el corazón.
English · machine translation
We meet, you and I, and to talk we stopped. There was something strange about you when you were silent, when you laughed... Sentimental fencing finally emerged that afternoon. Afterwards... how little was left! The wind carried it all away... The light of a match was our fleeting love. It lasted as little... I know... as the glow of a star... The light of a match was, nothing more, our idyll. Another illusion that leaves from the heart and never comes back. In everything, always the color is of the glass with which you look at it. In pink, I saw you when you were silent, when you laughed. Later, with a different glass, the color changed and you were no longer... Life is all illusion and a prism is the heart.
Every version
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2 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 7 more we know of
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- Aníbal TroiloEarliest we holdMost dancedLa luz de un fósforoAníbal TroiloAlberto MarinotangoRCA Victor21 dances1943
- Horacio SalganLa luz de un fósforoHoracio SalganEdmundo RiverotangoPhilipsNo match yet1969
- Ruth DuranteNot in our catalogue1965
- Orquesta Típica PorteñaNot in our catalogueRoberto Goyeneche · May 71970
- Horacio SalgánNot in our catalogueMar 71981
- Floreal RuízNot in our catalogue
- Roberto GoyenecheNot in our catalogue
- Ruth DuranteNot in our catalogue
- María VolontéNot in our catalogue
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Horacio Salgan
La luz de un fósforoHoracio SalganEdmundo RiverotangoPhilipsNo couple filmed dancing this recording yet
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