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Tabaco · Orquesta Típica Fernández Fierro · 2004

Orquesta Típica Fernández FierroEl Chino Labordetango
Music by Armando Pontier, lyrics by José María Contursi. 5 recordings in our catalogue, 1944–2004.

Pinned at 2004 · Electronic and festival era 2000– · Orquesta Típica Fernández Fierro recordings indexed 2001–2017

The work

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Music
Armando Pontier
Lyrics
José María Contursi

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Recordings

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The catalogue holds 5 recordings of this song by 4 orchestras, 1944 to 2004.

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1940’50’60’70’80’90’00
Recordings of Tabaco · Orquesta Típica Fernández Fierro · 2004 by year, taller the more they are danced · 5 of 5 recordings carry a year · read Nov 1, 2026

5 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 6 more we know of

The leader is Miguel Caló, 1944, with 56% of the 36 filmed dances matched to a version of this song.

10 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. Miguel CalóMost dancedTabacoMiguel CalóRaúl IriartetangoOdeon
    20 dances · 56%
    1944
  2. Armando PontierTabacoArmando PontierHéctor Dariotango
    10 dances · 28%
    1963
  3. Aníbal TroiloEarliest we holdTabacoAníbal TroiloFrancisco FiorentinotangoRCA Victor
    6 dances · 17%
    1944
  4. Orquesta Típica Fernández FierroTabacoOrquesta Típica Fernández FierroEl Chino Labordetango
    No match yet
    2003
  5. Orquesta Típica Fernández FierroTabacoOrquesta Típica Fernández FierroEl Chino Labordetango
    No match yet
    2004
  6. Mario MauranoNot in our catalogueLibertad Lamarque · May 211944
  7. Leopoldo FedericoNot in our catalogueJulio Sosa · Apr 231963
  8. Atilio StamponeNot in our catalogueRoberto Goyeneche1966
  9. Libertad LamarqueNot in our catalogue
  10. Roberto GoyenecheNot in our catalogue
  11. Atilio StamponeNot in our catalogueRoberto Goyeneche

Lyrics

Español

Tu voz surgió de las sombras como un lejano reproche; tu voz que llora y me nombra mientras más aún se asombran los fantasmas de esta noche. Están mis ojos cerrados por el terror del silencio; mi corazón, desgarrado porque no me he perdonado todo el mal que te causé. Más, muchísimo más extrañan mis manos tus manos amantes... Más, muchísimo más me aturdo al saberte tan cerca y tan distante... Y mientras fumo forma el humo tu figura y en el aroma del tabaco tu fragancia me conversa de distancias, de tu olvido y mi locura... Tú que vives feliz tal vez esta noche te acuerdes de mí. Parece un sueño de angustias del que despierto temblando y están tiradas y mustias las violetas de esa angustia y mis ojos sollazando. Los pobres siguen cerrados por el terror del silencio... Mi corazón, desgarrado porque no me he perdonado todo el mal que te causé.

English · machine translation

Your voice came out of the shadows like a distant reproach; your voice that cries and names me while still more the ghosts of this night the ghosts of this night. My eyes are closed by the terror of silence; my heart, torn apart because I have not forgiven myself all the evil I caused you. More, much, much more my hands miss your loving hands... The more, the more I am stunned to know you so close and yet so distant... And while I smoke, your figure forms the smoke and in the aroma of tobacco your fragrance speaks to me of distances, of your oblivion and my madness... You who live happily perhaps tonight you will remember me. It seems like a dream of anguish from which I wake up trembling and the violets of that anguish the violets of that anguish and my eyes are drooping. The poor ones are still closed by the terror of silence... My heart, torn apart because I have not forgiven myself all the evil I caused you.

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