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Loca · Juan D'Arienzo · 1955

Juan D'ArienzoinstrumentaltangoRCA Victor
Music by Manuel Jovés. 10 recordings in our catalogue, 1938–2015.

Who recorded it

Every version10

Earliest we hold: Quinteto Don Pancho (Francisco Canaro), 1938

  1. Juan D'Arienzo194219461955
  2. Alfredo De AngelisJuan Carlos Godoy1964
  3. Típica Victor1941
  4. Tango Bardo2015
  5. Orquesta Típica Fervor de Buenos Aires2006
  6. Los Solistas De D'Arienzo1975

Pinned at 1955 · Nuevo 1955–1984 · Juan D'Arienzo recordings indexed 1928–1975 · gold: Salamanca in the 50s, 1950–1957

Loca · Juan D'Arienzo · 1955 is a tango.† Loca · Juan D'Arienzo · 1955 lasts 02:38.†

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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Written
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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

The catalogue holds 10 recordings of this song by 8 orchestras, 1938 to 2015.
1930’40’50’60’70’80’90’00’10
Recordings of Loca · Juan D'Arienzo · 1955 by year, taller the more they are danced · 10 of 10 recordings carry a year · read Nov 2, 2026

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.

  1. Tango BardoLocaTango Bardotango
    170 dances · 49%
    2015
  2. Quinteto Don Pancho (Francisco Canaro)Earliest we holdLocaQuinteto Don Pancho (Francisco Canaro)tangoOdeon
    2 dances · <1%
    1938
  3. Los Solistas De D'ArienzoLocaLos Solistas De D'ArienzotangoMusic Hall
    2 dances · <1%
    1975
  4. Típica VictorLocaTípica VictorinstrumentaltangoRCA Victor
    No match yet
    1941
  5. Enrique MoraLocaEnrique MoraAmanda Vidaltango
    No match yet
    1950
  6. Alfredo De AngelisLocaAlfredo De AngelisJuan Carlos GodoytangoOdeon
    No match yet
    1964
  7. Orquesta Típica Fervor de Buenos AiresLocaOrquesta Típica Fervor de Buenos Airestango
    No match yet
    2006
  8. Guillermo Barbieri, José RicardoNot in our catalogueCarlos Gardel1922
  9. -unspecified orchestra-Not in our catalogue1924
  10. Quinteto Don Pancho, dir. Francisco CanaroNot in our catalogueJun 201938
  11. Juan CanaroNot in our catalogue-unspecified female- · Oct 41954
  12. Maria De La FuenteNot in our catalogue
  13. Ernesto FrancoNot in our catalogue
  14. 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 Victor

Couples filmed dancing this recording · 6 Performances

Recorded the same day

What else Juan D'Arienzo recorded on Dec 22, 1955.

  1. Eras como la florJuan D'ArienzoArmando LabordetangoRCA Victor
  2. Avivate pipistreloJuan D'ArienzoAlberto EchagüetangoRCA Victor
  3. Bien jaileifeJuan D'ArienzoAlberto EchagüetangoRCA Victor

Danced to it

Music from 1955 · danced on film 2014–2026

20142026
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

2014: 1, 2018: 1, 2026: 1

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Cite this

From TangoTube's videos · our data

Data: recordings, facts and sources

In other catalogues8

tango.info · 00743217137229-1-17

tango.info · 00828766934724-1-2

tango.info · 02480002003243-1-14

tango.info · 02480002027485-1-3

tango.info · 02480002027805-1-14

tango.info · 00743212755022-1-27

tango.info · 00743213541624-1-17

tango.info · 00828765218221-1-20

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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  1. LocaQuinteto Don Pancho (Francisco Canaro)

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