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Una lágrima · Horacio Salgan · 1969

Horacio SalganEdmundo RiverotangoPhilips
Music by Nicolás Verona, lyrics by Eugenio Cárdenas. 3 recordings in our catalogue, 1946–1969.

Who recorded it

Every version3

Earliest we hold: Ricardo Tanturi, 1946

  1. Osvaldo PuglieseAbel Córdoba1967
  2. Ricardo TanturiOsvaldo Ribo1946
  3. Horacio SalganEdmundo Rivero1969

Pinned at 1969 · Nuevo 1955–1984 · Horacio Salgan recordings indexed 1950–1969

The song

The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.

3 orchestras recorded it

0 Dances filmed to it

Who wrote it

Music
Nicolás Verona
Words
Eugenio Cárdenas
Written
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First played
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Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Lyrics

Read the lyrics on Ricardo Tanturi’s 1946 recording in TangoCloud

Every version

Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone

The catalogue holds 3 recordings of this song by 3 orchestras, 1946 to 1969.
1940’50’60
Recordings of Una lágrima · Horacio Salgan · 1969 by year, taller the more they are danced · 3 of 3 recordings carry a year · read Nov 2, 2026

3 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 3 more we know of

Choose A and B on two recordings to hear them one after the other.

  1. Osvaldo PuglieseUna lágrimaOsvaldo PuglieseAbel CórdobatangoPhilips1967
  2. Ricardo TanturiEarliest we holdUna lágrimaRicardo TanturiOsvaldo RibotangoRCA Victor1946
  3. Horacio SalganUna lágrimaHoracio SalganEdmundo RiverotangoPhilips1969
  4. Guillermo Barbieri, José RicardoNot in our catalogueCarlos Gardel1926
  5. Ángel Domingo Riverol, Guillermo Barbieri, José María AguilarNot in our catalogueCarlos Gardel · May 201930
  6. Carlos GardelNot in our catalogue

One recording

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

Horacio Salgan

Una lágrimaHoracio SalganEdmundo RiverotangoPhilips

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  1. Una lágrimaRicardo TanturiOsvaldo Ribo

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