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La última curda · Aníbal Troilo · 1963

Aníbal TroiloRoberto GoyenechetangoRCA Victor
Music by Aníbal Troilo, lyrics by Catulo Castillo. 9 recordings in our catalogue, 1956–1982.

Who recorded it

Every version9

Earliest we hold: Aníbal Troilo, 1956

  1. Aníbal TroiloEdmundo Rivero · Roberto Goyeneche195619631969
  2. Armando PontierRoberto Goyeneche1966
  3. Alfredo GobbiTito Lando1957
  4. Horacio SalganEdmundo Rivero19571965
  5. Astor PiazzollaRoberto Goyeneche1982
  6. Hugo Diaz1972

Pinned at 1963 · Nuevo 1955–1984 · Aníbal Troilo recordings indexed 1938–1971 · gold: Late years, 1961–1975

La última curda · Aníbal Troilo · 1963 was sung by Roberto Goyeneche.†† La última curda · Aníbal Troilo · 1963 is a tango.† La última curda · Aníbal Troilo · 1963 lasts 03:31.†

The song

The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.

6 orchestras recorded it

100 Dances filmed to it

Who wrote it

Music
Aníbal Troilo
Words
Catulo Castillo
Written
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First played
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Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Lyrics

Español

Lastima, bandoneón, mi corazon tu ronca maldición maleva... Tu lágrima de ron me lleva hasta el hondo bajo fondo donde el barro se subleva. ¡Ya sé, no me digás! ¡Tenés razón! La vida es una herida absurda, y es todo tan fugaz que es una curda, ¡nada más! mi confesión. Contame tu condena, decime tu fracaso, ¿no ves la pena que me ha herido? Y hablame simplemente de aquel amor ausente tras un retazo del olvido. ¡Ya sé que te lastimo! ¡Ya se que te hago daño llorando mi sermón de vino! Pero es el viejo amor que tiembla, bandoneón, y busca en el licor que aturde, la curda que al final termine la función corriéndole un telón al corazón. Un poco de recuerdo y sinsabor gotea tu rezongo lerdo. Marea tu licor y arrea la tropilla de la zurda al volcar la última curda. Cerrame el ventanal que arrastra el sol su lento caracol de sueño, ¿no ves que vengo de un país que está de olvido, siempre gris, tras el alcohol?...

English · machine translation

Too bad, bandoneon, my heart your hoarse evil curse... Your rum tear takes me to the deepest depths where the mud revolts. I know, don't tell me! You're right! Life is an absurd wound and it's all so fleeting that it's a cure, nothing more! my confession. Tell me your condemnation, tell me your failure, don't you see the sorrow that has wounded me? And tell me simply of that absent love behind a remnant of oblivion. I know I hurt you! I know I hurt you by crying my wine sermon! But it is the old love that trembles, bandoneon, and searches in the liquor that stuns, the cure that at the end ends the show by pulling back a curtain to the heart. A little bit of memory and flavorlessness drips your slow gossip. Tide your liquor and plough the left-handed troop when overturning the last curda. Close the window that drags the sun its slow snail of sleep, don't you see that I come from a country that is in oblivion, always gray, after alcohol...

Every version

Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone

The catalogue holds 9 recordings of this song by 6 orchestras, 1956 to 1982.
1950’60’70’80
Recordings of La última curda · Aníbal Troilo · 1963 by year, taller the more they are danced · 9 of 9 recordings carry a year · read Nov 2, 2026

9 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 14 more we know of

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

The leader is Aníbal Troilo, with 75% of the 100 filmed dances matched to a version of this song.

2 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. Astor PiazzollaLa última curdaAstor PiazzollaRoberto Goyenechetango
    17 dances · 17%
    1982
  2. Hugo DiazLa última curdaHugo Diaztango
    6 dances · 6%
    1972
  3. Alfredo GobbiLa última curdaAlfredo GobbiTito Landotango
    1 dance · 1%
    1957
  4. Armando PontierLa última curdaArmando PontierRoberto Goyenechetango
    1 dance · 1%
    1966
  5. Mercedes SimoneNot in our catalogue1932
  6. Mercedes SimoneNot in our catalogue1940
  7. Alfredo J. GobbiNot in our catalogueTito Landó · Jun 181957
  8. Emilio BrameriNot in our catalogueMercedes Simone1966
  9. Orquesta Matos RodríguezNot in our catalogueRicardo Olivera2005
  10. Cacho CastañaNot in our catalogue
  11. Susana RinaldiNot in our catalogue
  12. Alberto MarinoNot in our catalogue
  13. Anibal Arias, Osvaldo José MontesNot in our catalogue
  14. Esteban MorgadoNot in our catalogue
  15. Alba SolísNot in our catalogue
  16. Ensemble HyperionNot in our catalogueDiego Hernan
  17. Orquesta Típica PorteñaNot in our catalogueRoberto Goyeneche
  18. -unspecified male-Not in our catalogue

One recording

A dated take, with its sound and the couples dancing it.

Aníbal Troilo

La última curdaAníbal TroiloRoberto GoyenechetangoRCA Victor

Couples filmed dancing this recording · 1 Performance

Recorded the same day

What else Aníbal Troilo recorded on May 7, 1963.

  1. MaríaAníbal TroiloRoberto RufinotangoRCA Victor

Danced to it

Music from 1963 · danced on film 2010

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.

The one complete set on film

  1. Gaston Torelli and Moira Castellano

    2010 · In upload order: nobody has said the order danced

    1. 1En esta tarde grisAníbal Troilo, 1971
    2. 2La última curdaAníbal Troilo, 1963
    3. 3Sangre de mi sangreRodolfo Biagi, 1954
    4. 4Viejo portónRodolfo Biagi, 1938
    Watch it on TangoTube

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Data: recordings, facts and sources

Singers1

Sung by Roberto GoyenecheMay 7, 1963

In other catalogues11

tango.info · 00743214129029-1-8

tango.info · 00743216249121-1-15

tango.info · 00743218887024-1-14

tango.info · 00828765442923-1-9

tango.info · 00828766334227-1-1

tango.info · 00828766424928-1-6

tango.info · 02480002028437-1-5

tango.info · 02480002102335-1-8

tango.info · 02480002330578-2-4

tango.info · 00743217050320-4-5

tango.info · 00743217136727-1-3

Is a1

Is a tango

Duration1

Duration 03:31

Vocal1

Vocal sung

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  1. La última curdaAníbal TroiloEdmundo Rivero

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