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Poema · Color Tango (Roberto Alvarez) · 2009

Color Tango (Roberto Alvarez)Roberto Decarretango
Music by Eduardo Bianco, Mario Melfi, lyrics by Mario Melfi. 6 recordings in our catalogue, 1935–2016.

Who recorded it

Every version6

Earliest we hold: Francisco Canaro, 1935

  1. Francisco CanaroRoberto Maida1935
  2. Color Tango (Roberto Alvarez)Roberto Decarre2009
  3. Orquesta Romantica MilongueraMarisol Martínez2016
  4. Héctor GranéJean Raphaël19571957
  5. René PesentiAlberto1937

Pinned at 2009 · Electronic and festival era 2000– · Color Tango (Roberto Alvarez) recordings indexed 1994–2014

The song

The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.

5 orchestras recorded it

189 Dances filmed to it

Who wrote it

Music
Eduardo Bianco, Mario Melfi
Words
Mario Melfi
Written
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First played
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Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Lyrics

Español

Fue un ensueño de dulce amor, horas de dicha y de querer. Fue el poema de ayer, que yo soñé de dorado color. Vanas quimeras que el corazón no logrará descifrar jamás. ¡Nido tan fugaz, fue un sueño de amor, de adoración!... Cuando las flores de tu rosal vuelvan más bellas a florecer, recordarás mi querer y has de saber todo mi intenso mal... De aquel poema embriagador ya nada queda entre los dos. ¡Con mi triste adiós sentirás la emoción de mi dolor!...

English · machine translation

It was a dream of sweet love, hours of joy and love. It was yesterday's poem that I dreamed of golden color. Vain chimeras that the heart will never be able to decipher. So fleeting a dream, it was a dream of love, of adoration!... When the flowers of your rosebush come back to bloom more beautifully, you will remember my love and you will know all my intense evil... Of that intoxicating poem nothing remains between the two of us. With my sad goodbye you will feel the emotion of my pain!...

Every version

Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone

The catalogue holds 6 recordings of this song by 5 orchestras, 1935 to 2016.
1930’40’50’60’70’80’90’00’10
Recordings of Poema · Color Tango (Roberto Alvarez) · 2009 by year, taller the more they are danced · 6 of 6 recordings carry a year · read Nov 2, 2026

6 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 11 more we know of

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

The leader is Francisco Canaro, 1935, with 80% of the 189 filmed dances matched to a version of this song.

“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. Francisco CanaroEarliest we holdMost dancedPoemaFrancisco CanaroRoberto MaidatangoOdeon
    152 dances · 80%
    1935
  2. Orquesta Romantica MilongueraPoemaOrquesta Romantica MilongueraMarisol Martíneztango
    36 dances · 19%
    2016
  3. Color Tango (Roberto Alvarez)PoemaColor Tango (Roberto Alvarez)Roberto Decarretango
    1 dance · <1%
    2009
  4. René PesentiPoemaRené PesentiAlbertotango
    No match yet
    1937
  6. A. J. PesentiNot in our catalogue1932
  7. Imperio ArgentinaNot in our catalogue1932
  8. Eduardo BiancoNot in our catalogue1932
  9. Imperio ArgentinaNot in our catalogue1933
  10. Eduardo BiancoNot in our catalogue1933
  11. Orquesta Típica TokioNot in our catalogueRanko Fujisawa1952
  12. Juan Sánchez GorioNot in our catalogueLuis Mendoza1954
  13. Juan Sánchez GorioNot in our catalogueLuis Mendoza1955
  14. Héctor PachecoNot in our catalogue
  15. MilvaNot in our catalogue
  16. A. J. PesentiNot in our catalogue

One recording

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

Color Tango (Roberto Alvarez)

PoemaColor Tango (Roberto Alvarez)Roberto Decarretango

Couples filmed dancing this recording · 1 Performance

Alberto Sendra & Fernanda Japas3:06

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What we don't know yet3 of 5 known

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  1. PoemaFrancisco CanaroRoberto Maida

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