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Torrente · Libertad Lamarque · 1944

Libertad LamarqueLibertad Lamarquetango
Music by Hugo Gutiérrez, lyrics by Homero Manzi. 6 recordings in our catalogue, 1944–2019.

Pinned at 1944 · Golden Age 1935–1954

Torrente · Libertad Lamarque · 1944: Closed the night with a female singer not yet heard, on a song several orchestras recorded that year.†

The song

The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.

6 orchestras recorded it

219 Dances filmed to it

Who wrote it

Music
Hugo Gutiérrez
Words
Homero Manzi
Written
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First played
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Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Lyrics

Español

Solloza mi ansiedad... También mi soledad quisiera llorar cobardemente. Angustia de jugar y de repente, sin querer, perder el corazón en el torrente. Se queja nuestro ayer... Se queja con un tono de abandono que recuerda con dolor la noche del adiós... la noche que encendimos de reproches y el amor pasó. Adiós... la triste y la más gris canción de amor. Ayer... el último y fatal ayer final. Fue mi desprecio, mi desprecio necio. Fue tu amargura, tu amargura oscura. Nuestro egoísmo nos lanzó al abismo y nos vimos de repente en el torrente más atroz. Torrente de rencor brutal y cruel que ya no ofrece salvación. Se queja el corazón... Se queja con razón al ver lo que quedó de aquel pasado. Perfume de rosal rumor callado de cristal y todo es un nidal abandonado. Solloza el corazón... solloza como un niño sin cariño, sin abrigo ni ilusión. Y vuelve del adiós la tarde en que los dos fuimos cobardes y el amor pasó.

English · machine translation

My anxiety sobs... Also my loneliness I would like to cry cowardly. Anguish of playing and suddenly, without wanting to, to lose my heart in the torrent. Our yesterday complains... It complains with a tone of abandonment that recalls with pain the night of goodbye... the night we lit up with reproaches and love passed. Farewell... the saddest and grayest song of love. Yesterday... the last and fatal final yesterday. It was my contempt, my foolish contempt. It was your bitterness, your dark bitterness. Our selfishness threw us into the abyss and we saw ourselves suddenly in the torrent most atrocious torrent. Torrent of rancor brutal and cruel that no longer offers salvation. The heart complains... It complains with reason when it sees what is left of that past. Perfume of rosebush silent murmur of crystal and everything is an abandoned nest. The heart sobs... it sobs like a child without affection without shelter or illusion. And it returns from the goodbye the afternoon when we were both cowards and love passed.

Every version

Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone

The catalogue holds 6 recordings of this song by 6 orchestras, 1944 to 2019.
1940’50’60’70’80’90’00’10
Recordings of Torrente · Libertad Lamarque · 1944 by year, taller the more they are danced · 6 of 6 recordings carry a year · read Nov 1, 2026

6 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 3 more we know of

a version people dance tono Dances matched yet: something to listen to

The leader is Lucio Demare, 1944, with 55% of the 219 filmed dances matched to a version of this song.

17 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. Lucio DemareMost dancedTorrenteLucio DemareHoracio QuintanatangoOdeon
    121 dances · 55%
    1944
  2. Aníbal TroiloEarliest we holdTorrenteAníbal TroiloAlberto MarinotangoRCA Victor
    97 dances · 44%
    1944
  3. Francisco CanaroTorrenteFrancisco CanaroCarlos RoldántangoOdeon
    1 dance · <1%
    1944
  4. Quintin VerduTorrenteQuintin VerduRoberto Rodrigueztango
    No match yet
    1944
  5. Osvaldo Manzi Y El Octeto MarabúTorrenteOsvaldo Manzi Y El Octeto Marabúsinger unknowntangoMicrofon
    No match yet
    1969
  6. Orquesta Romantica MilongueraTorrenteOrquesta Romantica MilongueraHache De Huilentango
    No match yet
    2019
  7. Alfredo MalerbaNot in our catalogueLibertad Lamarque · Oct 31944
  8. Orquesta Típica PorteñaNot in our catalogueRoberto Goyeneche · Jul 21976
  9. Roberto GoyenecheNot in our catalogue

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Data: recordings, facts and sources

Notes1

Closed the night with a female singer not yet heard, on a song several orchestras recorded that year.

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  1. TorrenteAníbal TroiloAlberto Marino

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