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Valsecito amigo · Floreal Ruiz · 1976

Floreal RuizFloreal Ruizvals
Music by Aníbal Troilo, lyrics by José María Contursi. 3 recordings in our catalogue, 1943–1965.

Pinned at 1976 · Nuevo 1955–1984

The song

The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.

3 orchestras recorded it

61 Dances filmed to it

Who wrote it

Music
Aníbal Troilo
Words
José María Contursi
Written
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Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Lyrics

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Vals sentimental de nuestras viejas horas, ¡nunca te escuché tan triste como ahora! Llegas hasta mi para aumentar mi queja, tiene tu rondín sabor a cosa vieja... Vals sentimental, ingenuo y ondulante, vuelvo a recordar aquellos tiempos de antes. Una voz lejana me acusa en tu canción, ¡valcesito!... ¡y envuelve mi emoción! Vuelca tu nostalgia febril, tu musiquita sensual, se que no es posible seguir oyéndote sin llorar. Valcesito amigo, no ves esta incertidumbre tenaz que no hace más que remover y conmover mi soledad... Unos ojos verdes de mar más grandes que su ilusión, unas ansias grandes de amar... después... llorando una voz... Valcesito amigo, no ves que tu musiquita sensual no sabe más que atormentar y atormentar mi corazón... Cuando llegue el fin de mi oración postrera, quiero imaginarla así, como ella era... Juntaré mi voz a aquellos labios suyos, mientras tu canción nos servirá de arrullo. Vals sentimental de nuestras horas, ya no me verán tan triste como ahora. Lentamente tus notas amigas cantaré, valsecito... ¡y entonces moriré!

English · machine translation

Sentimental waltz of our old times, I never heard you so sad as now! You come to me to increase my complaint, your roundness tastes like an old thing... Sentimental waltz, naive and undulating, I remember again those times of yesteryear. A distant voice accuses me in your song, Valcesito!... and it envelops my emotion! Pour out your feverish nostalgia, your sensual little music, I know it's not possible to go on listening to you without crying. Valcesito friend, don't you see this tenacious uncertainty that does nothing more but stir and move my loneliness... Green eyes of the sea bigger than their illusion, a great desire to love... then... crying a voice... Valcesito friend, don't you see that your sensual music knows nothing more than to torment and torment my heart... When the end of my last prayer comes, I want to imagine her like that, as she was... I will join my voice to those lips of hers.., while your song will serve us as a lullaby. Sentimental waltz of our hours, I will no longer be seen as sad as I am now. Slowly I'll sing your friendly notes, little waltz... and then I'll die!

Every version

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The catalogue holds 3 recordings of this song by 3 orchestras, 1943 to 1965.
1940’50’60
Recordings of Valsecito amigo · Floreal Ruiz · 1976 by year, taller the more they are danced · 3 of 3 recordings carry a year · read Nov 1, 2026

3 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 Aníbal Troilo, 1943, with 97% of the 61 filmed dances matched to a version of this song.

3 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. Aníbal TroiloEarliest we holdMost dancedValsecito amigoAníbal TroiloFrancisco FiorentinovalsRCA Victor
    59 dances · 97%
    1943
  2. Francisco CanaroValsecito amigoFrancisco CanaroEduardo AdrianvalsOdeon
    2 dances · 3%
    1943
  3. Reynaldo NicheleValsecito amigoReynaldo Nichelesinger unknownvalsMicrofon
    No match yet
    1965
  4. Ernesto BaffaNot in our catalogue1967
  5. Horacio Salgán, Ubaldo Aquiles De LioNot in our catalogueJan 191996
  6. Floreal RuízNot in our catalogue

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  1. Valsecito amigoAníbal TroiloFrancisco Fiorentino

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