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Como dos extraños · Francisco Canaro · 1940

Music by Pedro Laurenz, lyrics by José María Contursi. 6 recordings in our catalogue, 1940–2006.
1940: 2 · danced 58 times1960: 1 · danced 0 times1961: 1 · danced 7 times1968: 1 · danced 0 times2006: 1 · danced 1 times
1940’50’60’70’80’90’002006
records madedanced on film, by the record’s year· our catalogue

1940: 2, 58; 1960: 1, 0; 1961: 1, 7; 1968: 1, 0; 2006: 1, 1

  1. Pedro Laurenz recorded it in 1940 and 1968.

    How we know

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

Como dos extraños · Francisco Canaro · 1940 was sung by Ernesto Famá.† Como dos extraños · Francisco Canaro · 1940 is a tango.† Como dos extraños · Francisco Canaro · 1940 lasts 02:40.†

Credit

Music
Pedro Laurenz
Lyrics
José María Contursi

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Every recording

6 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 11 more we know of

1940’50’60’70’80’90’00

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

  1. Pedro LaurenzEarliest we holdMost dancedJuan Carlos Casas · RCA Victor · Jun 28
    50 dances
    1940
  2. Pedro LaurenzMicrofon · Dec 1
    Not danced on film yet
    1968
  3. Francisco CanaroErnesto Famá · Odeon · Sep 30
    8 dances
    1940
  4. Armando PontierOscar Ferrari · CBS Columbia · Jul 7
    Not danced on film yet
    1960
  5. José BassoFloreal Ruiz · Odeon · Nov 28
    7 dances
    1961
  6. Orquesta Típica ImperialJulio César Fernán · Aug 1
    1 dance
    2006
  7. Ciriaco Ortiz, Ubaldo Aquiles De LioNot in our catalogue1965
  8. Pedro LaurenzNot in our catalogue1966
  9. Adriana VarelaNot in our catalogue1998
  10. Adriana VarelaNot in our catalogue
  11. María GrañaNot in our catalogue
  12. Roberto GoyenecheNot in our catalogue
  13. Susana RinaldiNot in our catalogue
  14. Juan Carlos CáceresNot in our catalogue
  15. Juan Carlos CáceresNot in our catalogueJuan Carlos Cáceres
  16. Néstor MarconiNot in our catalogue-unspecified male-
  17. -unspecified female-Not in our catalogue

Lyrics

Español

Me acobardó la soledad y el miedo enorme de morir lejos de ti... ¡Qué ganas tuve de llorar sintiendo junto a mí la burla de la realidad! Y el corazón me suplicó que te buscara y que le diera tu querer... Me lo pedía el corazón y entonces te busqué creyéndote mi salvación... Y ahora que estoy frente a ti parecemos, ya ves, dos extraños... Lección que por fin aprendí: ¡cómo cambian las cosas los años! Angustia de saber muertas ya la ilusión y la fe... Perdón si me ves lagrimear... ¡Los recuerdos me han hecho mal! Palideció la luz del sol al escucharte fríamente conversar... Fue tan distinto nuestro amor y duele comprobar que todo, todo terminó. ¡Qué gran error volverte a ver para llevarme destrozado el corazón! Son mil fantasmas, al volver burlándose de mí, las horas de ese muerto ayer...

English · machine translation

I was cowed by loneliness and the enormous fear of dying far from you... How I wanted to cry feeling next to me the mockery of reality! And my heart begged me to look for you and to give it your love... My heart asked me to do so and then I looked for you believing you to be my salvation... And now that I am in front of you we seem, you see, two strangers... Lesson I finally learned: how the years change things! Anguish of knowing that illusion and faith illusion and faith... Forgive me if you see me cry... Memories have made me sick! The sunlight paled as I listened to you coldly conversing... Our love was so different and it hurts to see that everything, everything is over. What a great mistake to see you again to take my heart shattered! There are a thousand ghosts, coming back mocking me, the hours of that dead yesterday...

Danced to it

Music from 1940 · danced on film 2011–2022

20112022
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

2011: 1, 2022: 1

Rino Fraina & Graziella Pulvirenti3:32

Through the decades

  1. The 2010sMarko Miljevic & Maja Petrović2011
  2. The 2020sRino Fraina & Graziella Pulvirenti2022

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. 1Muñequita de ParísOsvaldo Fresedo, 1955 · danced together in 2 Performances

Connected

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Videos danced in

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In other catalogues3

tango.info · 00724385901829-1-9

Single source

tango.info · 02480002740827-1-1

Single source

tango.info · 02480002040989-1-9

Single source

Singers1

Sung by Ernesto Famá

Single source

Is a1

Is a tango

Single source

Duration1

Duration 02:40

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Vocal1

Vocal sung

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  1. Como dos extrañosPedro Laurenz · Juan Carlos Casas1940

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