Song
Ventanita de arrabal · Carlos Gardel · 1927
1927: 3, 0; 1950: 3, 7; 1952: 1, 0; 1965: 1, 0; 1974: 1, 0
Aníbal Troilo recorded it in 1952 and 1965.
How we know
Takes in our catalogue by the same orchestra in different years; the canon’s first orchestra is named.
Credit
- Music
- Antonio Scatasso
- Lyrics
- Pascual Contursi
Source: TangoCloud catalogue
Every recording
9 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 8 more we know of
Choose A and B on two recordings to hear them one after the other.
- Aníbal TroiloJorge Casal · TKNot danced on film yet1952
- Aníbal TroiloTito Reyes · RCA Victor · Sep 24Not danced on film yet1965
- Osvaldo PuglieseMost dancedJorge Vidal · Odeon · Mar 77 dances1950
- Francisco CanaroEarliest we holdInstrumental · Odeon · Jun 22Not danced on film yet1927
- Francisco LomutoInstrumental · Odeon · Jul 6Not danced on film yet1927
- Ricardo PedevillaOscar Serpa · Pampa · Nov 28Not danced on film yet1950
- Sexteto TangoJorge Maciel · Jun 19Not danced on film yet1974
- Eduardo Del PianoÁngel Vargas · RCA Victor · Oct 20Not danced on film yet1950
- Orquesta Típica de Juan Maglio "Pacho"InstrumentalNot danced on film yet1927
- -unspecified guitars-Not in our catalogueIgnacio Corsini1927
- Juan Félix MaglioNot in our catalogueInstrumental · Jul 51927
- Ignacio CorsiniNot in our catalogueJul 61927
- Guillermo Barbieri, José RicardoNot in our catalogueCarlos Gardel · Jul 81927
- Joaquín Do ReyesNot in our catalogueHoracio Deval1950
- Ignacio CorsiniNot in our catalogue
- Antonio De MayoNot in our catalogueInstrumental
- Ismael SpitalnikNot in our catalogueInstrumental
Lyrics
Español · Underlined words are lunfardo: tap one for its meaning.
En el barrio Caferata en un viejo conventillo, con los pisos de ladrillo, minga de puerta cancel, donde van los organitos su lamento rezongando, está la esperando que pase el muchacho aquel. Aquel que solito entró al conventillo, echao a los ojos el marrón; botín enterizo, el cuello con brillo, pidió una guitarra y pa'ella cantó. Aquel que, un domingo, bailaron un tango; aquel que le dijo: 'Me muero por vos'; aquel que su almita arrastró por el fango, aquel que a la reja más nunca volvió. Ventanita del donde sólo hay flores secas, vos también abandonada de aquel día... se quedó. El rocío de sus hojas, las garúas de la ausencia, con el dolor de un suspiro tu tronquito destrozó.
English · machine translation
In the Caferata neighborhood in an old tenement, with brick floors, minga de puerta cancel, where the little organs go their wailing wailing, there's the girl waiting for that boy to pass by. The one who alone entered the tenement, with the brown funyi brown funyi; full booty, the neck with glitter, he asked for a guitar and sang for her. The one who, one Sunday danced a tango; the one who said to her: 'I'm dying for you'; the one whose soul dragged through the mud, the one who never returned but never returned. Little window of the parrot where there are only dry flowers, you also abandoned of that day... remained. The dew of its leaves, the drizzle of absence, with the pain of a sigh your trunk shattered.
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