Song
Organito de la tarde · Carlos Di Sarli · 1942
Carlos Di SarliinstrumentaltangoRCA VictorWho recorded it
Every version17Earliest we hold: Francisco Canaro, 1925
Pinned at 1942 · Golden Age 1935–1954 · Carlos Di Sarli recordings indexed 1928–1960 · gold: Melodic, 1942–1949
Organito de la tarde · Carlos Di Sarli · 1942 is a tango.† Organito de la tarde · Carlos Di Sarli · 1942 lasts 02:41.†
The song
The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.
12 orchestras recorded it
90 Dances filmed to it
Who wrote it
- Music
- Cátulo Castillo
- Words
- José González Castillo
- Written
- not yet cited · help fill it
- First played
- not yet cited · help fill it
Source: TangoCloud catalogue
Lyrics
These are the song’s words. This take is instrumental.
Español
Al paso tardo de un pobre viejo puebla de notas el arrabal, con un concierto de vidrios rotos, el organito crepuscular. Dándole vueltas a la manija un hombre rengo marcha detrás mientras la dura pata de palo marca del tango el compás. En las notas de esa musiquita hay no sé qué de vaga sensación que el barrio parece impregnarse todo de emoción. Y es porque son tantos los recuerdos que a su paso despertando va que llena las almas con un gran deseo de llorar. Y al triste son de esa su canción sigue el organito lerdo como sembrando a su paso más pesar en el recuerdo, más calor en el ocaso. Y allá se va de su tango al son como buscando la noche que apagará su canción. Cuentan las viejas que todo saben y que el pianito junta a charlar que aquel viejito tuvo una hija que era la gloria del arrabal. Cuentan que el rengo era su novio y que en el corte no tuvo igual... Supo con ella, y en las milongas, con aquel tango reinar. Pero vino un día un forastero, bailarín, buen mozo y peleador que en una milonga compañera y pierna le quitó. Desde entonces es que padre y novio van buscando por el arrabal la ingrata muchacha al compás de aquel tango fatal.
English · machine translation
At the slow pace of a poor old man populates the suburb with notes, with a concert of broken glass, the twilight organ. Turning the handle a lame man marches behind while the hard wooden leg marks the tango beat. In the notes of that little music there is some vague sensation that the neighborhood seems to be impregnated with emotion. And it is because there are so many memories that in its wake it awakens that fills the souls with a great desire to cry. And to the sad sound of that song of hers follows the little slow organ as if sowing in its wake more sorrow in the memory, more warmth in the sunset. And there it goes of its tango to the sound as if searching for the night that will extinguish his song. The old women tell that they know everything and that the little piano brings them together to chat that that old man had a daughter who was the glory of the suburb. They say that the lame man was her boyfriend and that in the court she had no equal... He knew with her, and in the milongas, with that tango to reign. But one day a stranger came, dancer, handsome and a fighter who in a milonga and leg he took away his partner and his leg. Since then, father and boyfriend have been looking for the ungrateful girl the ungrateful girl to the beat of that fatal tango.
Every version
Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone
17 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 28 more we know of
a version people dance tono Dances matched yet: something to listen to
The leader is Carlos Di Sarli, with 97% of the 90 filmed dances matched to a version of this song.
8 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.
- Rodolfo BiagiOrganito de la tardeRodolfo BiagiinstrumentaltangoOdeon1 dance · 1%1956
- Quinteto Real (Horacio Salgán)Organito de la tardeQuinteto Real (Horacio Salgán)tangoColumbia1 dance · 1%1960
- Alberto MarinoOrganito de la tardeAlberto MarinosungtangoNo match yet1947
- Ricardo PedevillaOrganito de la tardeRicardo PedevillatangoPampaNo match yet1950
- Puglia-PedrozaOrganito de la tardePuglia-PedrozatangoNo match yet1951
- Juan D'ArienzoOrganito de la tardeJuan D'ArienzoinstrumentaltangoRCA VictorNo match yet1967
- José BassoOrganito de la tardeJosé BassotangoNo match yet1970
- Orquesta El ArranqueOrganito de la tardeOrquesta El ArranquetangoNo match yet2002
- Orquesta Escuela de TangoOrganito de la tardeOrquesta Escuela de TangotangoNo match yet2003
- Roberto FirpoNot in our catalogue1924
- Guillermo Barbieri, José RicardoNot in our catalogueCarlos Gardel1925
- Roberto FirpoNot in our catalogue1937
- -unspecified orchestra-Not in our catalogueNelly Omar1945
- Gabriel ClausiNot in our catalogueChito Faró1946
- Emilio BalcarceNot in our catalogueAlberto Marino · Apr 91947
- Luis Nicolas ViscaNot in our catalogue1950
- Luis Nicolas ViscaNot in our catalogue1951
One recording
A dated take, with its sound and the couples dancing it.
Carlos Di Sarli
Organito de la tardeCarlos Di SarliinstrumentaltangoRCA VictorCouples filmed dancing this recording · 92 Performances
Recorded the same day
What else Carlos Di Sarli recorded on Nov 30, 1942.
Danced to it
Music from 1942 · danced on film 2006–2026
2006: 1, 2008: 1, 2009: 1, 2010: 1, 2011: 2, 2013: 3, 2014: 5, 2015: 2, 2016: 10, 2017: 9, 2018: 10, 2019: 5, 2022: 2, 2023: 5, 2024: 2, 2025: 4, 2026: 5
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.
3 of 12 complete sets on film
Fabián Peralta and Josefina Bermúdez
2014 · In the order danced: the video titles number them
- 1Organito de la tardeCarlos Di Sarli, 1942
- 2RecuerdoOsvaldo Pugliese, 1944
- 3AmarrotoJuan D'Arienzo, 1951
- 4La espuelaJuan D'Arienzo, 1946
Fatima Vitale and Javier Rodríguez
2023 · In the order danced: the video titles number them
- 1Al verla pasarPedro Laurenz, 1942
- 2CatuzoOsvaldo Pugliese, 1949
- 3La espuelaJuan D'Arienzo, 1946
- 4Organito de la tardeCarlos Di Sarli, 1942
Claudia Cavagnini and Marco Nodari
In upload order: nobody has said the order danced
- 1Organito de la tardeCarlos Di Sarli, 1942
- 2No me lo digasJuan D'Arienzo, 1939
- 3MalezaOsvaldo Pugliese, 1945
- 4Amor mioRodolfo Biagi, 1958
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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.
- 1Desde el almaOsvaldo Pugliese, 1985 · danced together in 4 Performances
- 2Viejo portónRodolfo Biagi, 1938 · danced together in 4 Performances
- 3La espuelaJuan D'Arienzo, 1946 · danced together in 3 Performances
- 4RecuerdoOsvaldo Pugliese, 1944 · danced together in 3 Performances
- 5Todos te quierenÁngel D'Agostino, 1944 · danced together in 3 Performances
- 6Milonga queridaJuan D'Arienzo, 1938 · danced together in 2 Performances
- 7El fleteJuan D'Arienzo, 1936 · danced together in 2 Performances
- 8AmarrotoJuan D'Arienzo, 1951 · danced together in 2 Performances
- 9RawsonJuan D'Arienzo, 1936 · danced together in 2 Performances
- 10Flor de linoAníbal Troilo, 1947 · danced together in 2 Performances
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Danced by
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- Josefina Bermúdez7 videos
- Fabián Peralta7 videos
- Javier Rodríguez5 videos
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- Oscar Mandagaran4 videos
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- Georgina Vargas4 videos
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Data: recordings, facts and sources
In other catalogues7
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tango.info · 02480002336259-1-8
tango.info · 02480002102755-1-27
tango.info · 04011222317599-4-4
tango.info · 00828766032925-1-19
tango.info · 02480002333708-1-1
tango.info · 02480002718697-2-1
Is a1
Is a tango
Duration1
Duration 02:41
Audio feature15
Audio feature 120.2
Audio feature 0.946
Audio feature G
Audio feature major
Audio feature 0.779
Audio feature -23.1
Audio feature 0.311
Audio feature 0.267
Audio feature 0.009
Audio feature 0.001
Audio feature 0.0
Audio feature 0.99
Audio feature 121.0
Audio feature 60.5
Audio feature step
Vocal1
Vocal instrumental
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