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Chiqué · Astor Piazzolla · 1950

Music by Ricardo Luis Brignolo, lyrics by Ricardo Luis Brignolo. 28 recordings in our catalogue, 1927–2020.

Chiqué · Astor Piazzolla · 1950: A very old, much-recorded tango chosen so listeners can compare Piazzolla's own 1947 instrumental to the Troilo 1944 version he arranged.†

Credit

Music
Ricardo Luis Brignolo
Lyrics
Ricardo Luis Brignolo

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Every recording

28 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 34 more we know of

  1. Roberto FirpoNot in our catalogueInstrumental · tango.info1921
  2. Francisco LomutoEarliest we holdInstrumental · Odeon · Jul 191927
  3. Roberto FirpoInstrumental · Odeon · Mar 151928
  4. -unspecified guitars-Not in our catalogueIgnacio Corsini · Jul 13 · tango.info1928
  5. Francisco CanaroInstrumental · Odeon · Nov 619291 dance
  6. Manuel PizarroNot in our catalogueInstrumental · tango.info1929
  7. Cátulo CastilloNot in our catalogueInstrumental · tango.info1929
  8. Ricardo Luis BrignoloNot in our catalogueInstrumental · tango.info1929
  9. Trío ArgentinoNot in our catalogueInstrumental · tango.info1929
  10. José SolerNot in our catalogueInstrumental · tango.info1930
  11. Pedro MaffiaNot in our catalogueInstrumental · tango.info1930
  12. Julio De CaroNot in our catalogueInstrumental · Nov 6 · tango.info1930
  13. Pedro MaffiaNot in our catalogueInstrumental · Mar 21 · tango.info1931
  14. Edgardo DonatoInstrumental · RCA Victor · Jan 171936
  15. Ciriaco OrtizNot in our catalogueInstrumental · Jan 5 · tango.info1939
  16. Roberto ZerrilloNot in our catalogueInstrumental · tango.info1940
  17. Juan D'ArienzoInstrumental · RCA Victor · Dec 2219422 dances
  18. Aníbal TroiloNot in our catalogueInstrumental · tango.info1942
  19. Aníbal TroiloInstrumental · RCA Victor · Mar 3194415 dances
  20. Ciriaco OrtizNot in our catalogueInstrumental · tango.info1945

Lyrics

Español · Underlined words are lunfardo: tap one for its meaning.

Ya me estoy poniendo mal de verte así con las pilchas tan de bute y ese que un de mucho te compró para tenerte a su lado. Si supiera que mañana te fugás para la vieja querencia, aquel donde los viejos recuerdos y alegrías que vivistes te hicieron tan feliz. Recuerdo que eras más linda que una guinda y un pelpa de cien, y venías paseando tarde a tarde con una piel de zorro y un encantador vaivén... Y la barra de muchachitos te acechaba por doquier... Te batían muchas cosas que te dije yo también. Y hoy que el tiempo aquel ya se ha fugado y sin grupo te amaré, porque manyo como te has portado y conmigo nunca empleastes un chiqué. Es por eso que te he respondido en todas las rachas de la vida… Mi encantito, mi querida, soy de línea, soy de línea yo también.

English · machine translation

I'm already getting sick to see you like this with the pilchas so bute and that little berretín that a very vento guy bought for you to have you by his side. If I knew that tomorrow you'd run away for the old querencia, that bulín where the old memories and joys that you lived made you so happy. I remember you were prettier than a cherry and a hundred times more beautiful than a cherry, and you came strolling around evening after evening with a fox fur and a charming sway... And the bar of little boys stalked you everywhere... They beat you with many things that I told you too. And today that time has already gone away and without a group I will love you because manyo as you have behaved and with me you have never used a child. That's why I have answered you in all the spells of life... My darling, my dearest girl, I'm a line, I'm a line too.

Danced to it

Music from 1950 · danced on film 2017–2021

20172021
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

2017: 1, 2021: 1

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What we don't know yet3 of 5 known

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Data: recordings, facts and sources

Recordings by year

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

19272020

1927: 1, 1928: 1, 1929: 1, 1936: 1, 1942: 1, 1944: 1, 1946: 2, 1950: 1, 1951: 1, 1952: 1, 1953: 2, 1957: 1, 1960: 1, 1965: 1, 1970: 2, 1973: 2, 1985: 1, 1988: 1, 1998: 1, 2003: 1, 2013: 1, 2014: 1, 2017: 1, 2020: 1

Recordings1

Recorded in 1950

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Notes1

A very old, much-recorded tango chosen so listeners can compare Piazzolla's own 1947 instrumental to the Troilo 1944 version he arranged.

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  1. ChiquéFrancisco Lomuto1927

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