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Igual que una sombra · Ricardo Tanturi · 1945

Ricardo TanturiEnrique CampostangoRCA Victor
Music by Osvaldo Pugliese, lyrics by Enrique Cadícamo. 2 recordings in our catalogue, 1945–1945.

Who recorded it

Every version2

Earliest we hold: Miguel Caló, 1945

  1. Miguel CalóRaúl Iriarte1945
  2. Ricardo TanturiEnrique Campos1945

Pinned at 1945 · Golden Age 1935–1954 · Ricardo Tanturi recordings indexed 1937–1965 · 1 applied periods in gold

Igual que una sombra · Ricardo Tanturi · 1945 was sung by Enrique Campos.†† Igual que una sombra · Ricardo Tanturi · 1945 is a tango.† Igual que una sombra · Ricardo Tanturi · 1945 lasts 02:42.†

The song

The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.

2 orchestras recorded it

10 Dances filmed to it

Who wrote it

Music
Osvaldo Pugliese
Words
Enrique Cadícamo
Written
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First played
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Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Lyrics

Español

Hoy la vi después de un año, hoy se cruzó por mi herida. Iba hermosa mi muñeca mimosa, iba al lado de otro dueño, mi sueño; aquel sueño de mi vida. Pero era igual su corazón que en mi amor siempre está, y en mis noches sin estrellas ella es mi gran dolor. Ella es una sombra que nubla mi frente cuando, sin querer, la nombra. Es mi pasado, es mi presente. Y yo no puedo borrarla de mi mente. Ella en mis cuartetas, ella en mis angustias, ella en mi dolor de poeta; como raíces de tango grises, ella está en mi corazón. Otra vez llega el invierno, y mi vivir sin amores. Ya no suena su llamado esperado, y no escucho sus ternuras, tan puras. ¡Qué vacío me he quedado! Pero es igual, corazón, en mi amor siempre está, de ella son mis versos tristes tangos de dolor.

English · machine translation

Today I saw her after a year, today she crossed my wound. She was beautiful, my cuddly doll, she was next to another owner, my dream; that dream of my life. But her heart was the same that is always in my love, and in my starless nights she is my great pain. She is a shadow that clouds my forehead when, unwittingly, I name her. She is my past, she is my present. And I cannot erase her from my mind. She in my quatrains, she in my anguish, she in my poet's pain; like gray tango roots, she is in my heart. Winter comes again, and my living without love. Her long awaited call no longer sounds, and I don't hear her tenderness, so pure. How empty I am left! But it's all the same, my heart, she is always in my love, of her are my sad verses tangos of pain.

Every version

Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone

The catalogue holds 2 recordings of this song by 2 orchestras, 1945 to 1945.
1940
Recordings of Igual que una sombra · Ricardo Tanturi · 1945 by year, taller the more they are danced · 2 of 2 recordings carry a year · read Nov 2, 2026

2 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 4 more we know of

a version people dance tono Dances matched yet: something to listen to

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

  1. Miguel CalóEarliest we holdIgual que una sombraMiguel CalóRaúl IriartetangoOdeon
    2 dances
    1945
  2. Ricardo TanturiMost dancedIgual que una sombraRicardo TanturiEnrique CampostangoRCA Victor
    8 dances
    1945
  3. Osvaldo PuglieseNot in our catalogueAdrián Guida1989
  4. Oscar AlonsoNot in our catalogue
  5. Osvaldo PuglieseNot in our catalogueAdrián Guida
  6. Osvaldo PuglieseNot in our catalogue-unspecified male-

One recording

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

Ricardo Tanturi

Igual que una sombraRicardo TanturiEnrique CampostangoRCA Victor

Couples filmed dancing this recording · 10 Performances

Recorded the same day

What else Ricardo Tanturi recorded on Apr 12, 1945.

  1. La uruguayita LucíaRicardo TanturiEnrique CampostangoRCA Victor

Danced to it

Music from 1945 · danced on film 2019–2024

20192024
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

2019: 1, 2023: 3, 2024: 1

Filmed sets

One Couple dancing three or four songs at one Occasion, every song known. What was danced on film, not what a DJ played.

The one complete set on film

  1. John Zabala and Maria Filali

    In upload order: nobody has said the order danced

    1. 1IntimaTípica Victor, 1940
    2. 2Bien PulentaJuan D'Arienzo, 1950
    3. 3Igual que una sombraRicardo Tanturi, 1945
    4. 4El espianteOsvaldo Fresedo, 1933
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Singers1

Sung by Enrique CamposApr 12, 1945

In other catalogues9

tango.info · 02480002041955-1-11

tango.info · 02480002332268-1-4

tango.info · 00743216559329-1-12

tango.info · 02480002334934-1-2

tango.info · 02480002102359-1-12

tango.info · 04024236204175-1-12

tango.info · 00743214129623-1-18

tango.info · 00828766025224-1-8

tango.info · 08427328131148-1-9

Is a1

Is a tango

Duration1

Duration 02:42

Vocal1

Vocal sung

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  1. Igual que una sombraMiguel CalóRaúl Iriarte

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