Song
Loca · Juan D'Arienzo · 1955
Juan D'ArienzoinstrumentaltangoRCA VictorWho recorded it
Every version10Earliest we hold: Quinteto Don Pancho (Francisco Canaro), 1938
Pinned at 1955 · Nuevo 1955–1984 · Juan D'Arienzo recordings indexed 1928–1975 · gold: Salamanca in the 50s, 1950–1957
The song
The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.
8 orchestras recorded it
349 Dances filmed to it
Who wrote it
- Music
- Manuel Jovés
- Words
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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
Loca me llaman mis amigos, que sólo son testigos de mi liviano amor. Loca, ¿qué saben lo que siento, ni qué remordimiento se oculta en mi interior? Yo tengo, con alegrías, que disfrazar mi tristeza, y que hacen de mi cabeza las pesadillas huir. Yo tengo que ahogar en vino la pena que me devora. Cuando mi corazón llora, mis labios deben reír. Yo, si a un hombre lo desprecio, tengo que fingirle amores; y admiración, cuando es necio; y si es cobarde, temores. Yo que no he pertenecido al ambiente en que ahora estoy, he de olvidar lo que he sido y he de olvidar lo que soy. Loca me dicen mis amigos, que sólo son testigos de mi liviano amor. Loca, ¿qué saben lo que siento, ni qué remordimiento se oculta en mi interior? Allá muy lejos, muy lejos, donde el sol cae cada día, un tranquilo hogar había y en el hogar unos viejos. La vida y su encanto era una muchacha que huyó sin decirles dónde fuera, y esa muchacha soy yo. Hoy no existe ya la casa, hoy no existen ya los viejos hoy la muchacha muy lejos, sufriendo la vida pasa. Y al caer todos los días en aquella tierra el sol, caen con él mis alegrías y muere mi corazón.
English · machine translation
Crazy my friends call me, who are only witnesses of my light love. Crazy, what do they know what I feel, nor what remorse is hidden inside me? I have, with joys to disguise my sadness, and that make from my head the nightmares flee. I have to drown in wine the sorrow that devours me. When my heart cries my lips must laugh. I, if I despise a man, I must pretend to love him; and admiration, when he is foolish; and if he is a coward, fears. I who have not belonged to the environment in which I am now, I must forget what I have been and I must forget what I am. My friends tell me I'm crazy, who are only witnesses of my light love. Crazy, what do they know what I feel, nor what remorse is hidden inside me? Far, far away, far away where the sun falls every day, there was a quiet home and in the home some old people. Life and its charm was a girl who ran away without telling them where she went, and that girl is me. Today the house no longer exists, today the old people no longer exist today the girl is far away, suffering life goes by. And as the sun sets every day on that land the sun my joys fall with it and my heart dies.
Every version
Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone
10 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 7 more we know of
a version people dance tono Dances matched yet: something to listen to
The leader is Juan D'Arienzo, with 50% of the 349 filmed dances matched to a version of this song.
180 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.
- Tango BardoLocaTango Bardotango170 dances · 49%2015
- Quinteto Don Pancho (Francisco Canaro)Earliest we holdLocaQuinteto Don Pancho (Francisco Canaro)tangoOdeon2 dances · <1%1938
- Los Solistas De D'ArienzoLocaLos Solistas De D'ArienzotangoMusic Hall2 dances · <1%1975
- Típica VictorLocaTípica VictorinstrumentaltangoRCA VictorNo match yet1941
- Enrique MoraLocaEnrique MoraAmanda VidaltangoNo match yet1950
- Alfredo De AngelisLocaAlfredo De AngelisJuan Carlos GodoytangoOdeonNo match yet1964
- Orquesta Típica Fervor de Buenos AiresLocaOrquesta Típica Fervor de Buenos AirestangoNo match yet2006
- Guillermo Barbieri, José RicardoNot in our catalogueCarlos Gardel1922
- -unspecified orchestra-Not in our catalogue1924
- Quinteto Don Pancho, dir. Francisco CanaroNot in our catalogueJun 201938
- Juan CanaroNot in our catalogue-unspecified female- · Oct 41954
- Maria De La FuenteNot in our catalogue
- Ernesto FrancoNot in our catalogue
- Los Autenticos ReyesNot in our catalogue
One recording
A dated take, with its sound and the couples dancing it.
Juan D'Arienzo
LocaJuan D'ArienzoinstrumentaltangoRCA VictorCouples filmed dancing this recording · 6 Performances
Recorded the same day
What else Juan D'Arienzo recorded on Dec 22, 1955.
Danced to it
Music from 1955 · danced on film 2014–2026
2014: 1, 2018: 1, 2026: 1
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- EntryLoca · Juan D'Arienzo · 1946Recording
- EntryLoca · Juan D'Arienzo · 1942Recording
- EntryJueves · Juan D'Arienzo · 1955Recording
- EntryLoca · Los Solistas De D'Arienzo · 1975Recording
- EntryHomero · Juan D'Arienzo · 1950Recording
- EntryHomero · Juan D'Arienzo · 1954Recording
- EntryDon Juan · Juan D'Arienzo · 1950Recording
- EntryViento sur · Juan D'Arienzo · 1955Recording
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- Pablito Greco1 video
- Müller Dantas1 video
- Sebastián Arce1 video
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- Mariana Montes1 video
- Carlos Paredes1 video
- Mirta Burgos1 video
- Miguel Poiman1 video
- Vivían Arenas1 video
- Efi Voulgaroudi1 video
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Is a1
Is a tango
Duration1
Duration 02:38
Audio feature12
Audio feature 129.2
Audio feature 0.966
Audio feature E
Audio feature minor
Audio feature 0.893
Audio feature -23.2
Audio feature 0.45
Audio feature 0.557
Audio feature 0.031
Audio feature 0.128
Audio feature 0.003
Audio feature 0.838
Vocal1
Vocal instrumental
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