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Organito de la tarde · Carlos Di Sarli · 1942

Carlos Di SarliinstrumentaltangoRCA Victor
Music by Cátulo Castillo, lyrics by José González Castillo. 17 recordings in our catalogue, 1925–2003.

Who recorded it

Every version17

Earliest we hold: Francisco Canaro, 1925

  1. Juan D'Arienzo1967
  2. Carlos Di Sarli194219511954
  3. Rodolfo Biagi1956
  4. Francisco Canaro192519271961
  5. Ricardo Pedevilla1950
  6. José Basso1970

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
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First played
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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

The catalogue holds 17 recordings of this song by 12 orchestras, 1925 to 2003.
1920’30’40’50’60’70’80’90’00
Recordings of Organito de la tarde · Carlos Di Sarli · 1942 by year, taller the more they are danced · 17 of 17 recordings carry a year · read Nov 2, 2026

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.

  1. Rodolfo BiagiOrganito de la tardeRodolfo BiagiinstrumentaltangoOdeon
    1 dance · 1%
    1956
  2. Quinteto Real (Horacio Salgán)Organito de la tardeQuinteto Real (Horacio Salgán)tangoColumbia
    1 dance · 1%
    1960
  3. Alberto MarinoOrganito de la tardeAlberto Marinosungtango
    No match yet
    1947
  4. Ricardo PedevillaOrganito de la tardeRicardo PedevillatangoPampa
    No match yet
    1950
  5. Puglia-PedrozaOrganito de la tardePuglia-Pedrozatango
    No match yet
    1951
  6. Juan D'ArienzoOrganito de la tardeJuan D'ArienzoinstrumentaltangoRCA Victor
    No match yet
    1967
  7. José BassoOrganito de la tardeJosé Bassotango
    No match yet
    1970
  8. Orquesta El ArranqueOrganito de la tardeOrquesta El Arranquetango
    No match yet
    2002
  9. Orquesta Escuela de TangoOrganito de la tardeOrquesta Escuela de Tangotango
    No match yet
    2003
  10. Roberto FirpoNot in our catalogue1924
  11. Guillermo Barbieri, José RicardoNot in our catalogueCarlos Gardel1925
  12. Roberto FirpoNot in our catalogue1937
  13. -unspecified orchestra-Not in our catalogueNelly Omar1945
  14. Gabriel ClausiNot in our catalogueChito Faró1946
  15. Emilio BalcarceNot in our catalogueAlberto Marino · Apr 91947
  16. Luis Nicolas ViscaNot in our catalogue1950
  17. 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 Victor

Couples filmed dancing this recording · 92 Performances

Recorded the same day

What else Carlos Di Sarli recorded on Nov 30, 1942.

  1. Nido gauchoCarlos Di SarliAlberto PodestátangoRCA Victor

Danced to it

Music from 1942 · danced on film 2006–2026

20062026
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

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.

  1. Espacio Riobamba (Club Castel)Balvanera
    2 performances
  2. Club Sin RumboVilla Urquiza
    1 performance
  3. El Yeite Tango ClubVilla Crespo
    1 performance
  4. Sunderland ClubVilla Urquiza
    1 performance

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

  1. Fabián Peralta and Josefina Bermúdez

    2014 · In the order danced: the video titles number them

    1. 1Organito de la tardeCarlos Di Sarli, 1942
    2. 2RecuerdoOsvaldo Pugliese, 1944
    3. 3AmarrotoJuan D'Arienzo, 1951
    4. 4La espuelaJuan D'Arienzo, 1946
    Watch it on TangoTube
  2. Fatima Vitale and Javier Rodríguez

    2023 · In the order danced: the video titles number them

    1. 1Al verla pasarPedro Laurenz, 1942
    2. 2CatuzoOsvaldo Pugliese, 1949
    3. 3La espuelaJuan D'Arienzo, 1946
    4. 4Organito de la tardeCarlos Di Sarli, 1942
    Watch it on TangoTube
  3. Claudia Cavagnini and Marco Nodari

    In upload order: nobody has said the order danced

    1. 1Organito de la tardeCarlos Di Sarli, 1942
    2. 2No me lo digasJuan D'Arienzo, 1939
    3. 3MalezaOsvaldo Pugliese, 1945
    4. 4Amor mioRodolfo Biagi, 1958
    Watch it on TangoTube

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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. 1Desde el almaOsvaldo Pugliese, 1985 · danced together in 4 Performances
  2. 2Viejo portónRodolfo Biagi, 1938 · danced together in 4 Performances
  3. 3La espuelaJuan D'Arienzo, 1946 · danced together in 3 Performances
  4. 4RecuerdoOsvaldo Pugliese, 1944 · danced together in 3 Performances
  5. 5Todos te quierenÁngel D'Agostino, 1944 · danced together in 3 Performances
  6. 6Milonga queridaJuan D'Arienzo, 1938 · danced together in 2 Performances
  7. 7El fleteJuan D'Arienzo, 1936 · danced together in 2 Performances
  8. 8AmarrotoJuan D'Arienzo, 1951 · danced together in 2 Performances
  9. 9RawsonJuan D'Arienzo, 1936 · danced together in 2 Performances
  10. 10Flor de linoAníbal Troilo, 1947 · danced together in 2 Performances

Cite this

Data: recordings, facts and sources

In other catalogues7

tango.info · 02480002005070-1-8

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

Listen

  1. Organito de la tardeFrancisco Canaro

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