Song
Sobre el pucho · Horacio Salgan · 1969
Horacio SalganEdmundo RiverotangoPhilipsWho recorded it
Every version12Earliest we hold: Francisco Canaro, 1924
Recorded 1969 · Nuevo 1955–1984 · Horacio Salgan recordings indexed 1950–1969
The song
The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.
8 orchestras recorded it
41 Dances filmed to it
Who wrote it
- Music
- Sebastián Piana
- Words
- José González Castillo
- Written
- not yet cited · help fill it
- First played
- not yet cited · help fill it
- Its words name
- Nueva Pompeya
Source: TangoCloud catalogue
Lyrics
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Un callejón de Pompeya y un farolito plateando el fango y allí un malevo que fuma, y un organito moliendo un tango; y al son de aquella milonga, más que su vida mistonga, meditando, aquel malevo recordó la canción de su dolor. Yo soy aquel que, en Corrales, -los carnavales de mis amores- hizo brillar tus bellezas con las lindezas de sus primores; pero tu inconstancia loca me arrebató de tu boca, como pucho que se tira cuando ya ni sabor ni aroma da. Tango querido que ya pa'siempre pasó, como pucho consumió las delicias de mi vida que hoy cenizas sólo son. Tango querido que ya pa'siempre calló, ¿quién entonces me diría que vos te llevarías mi única ilusión?
English · machine translation
An alley in Pompeii and a streetlamp silvering the mud and there a malevo smoking and a little organ grinding a tango; and to the sound of that milonga, more than his mistonga life, meditating, that malevo remembered the song of his pain. I am he who, in Corrales, -the carnivals of my loves- made your beauties shine with the beauty of its primors; but your crazy inconstancy snatched me from your mouth, like a fag that is thrown away when it no longer neither taste nor scent. Dear tango that's gone forever, like a cigarette consumed the delights of my life that today are only ashes. Dear tango that has fallen silent forever, who then would tell me that you would take away my only illusion?
Every version
Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone
12 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 12 more we know of
a version people dance tono Dances matched yet: something to listen to
The leader is Juan D'Arienzo, 1941, with 95% of the 41 filmed dances matched to a version of this song.
9 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.
- Juan D'ArienzoMost dancedSobre el puchoJuan D'ArienzoHéctor MaurétangoRCA Victor39 dances · 95%1941
- Carlos Di SarliSobre el puchoCarlos Di SarliErnesto FamátangoRCA VictorNo match yet1931
- Francisco RotundoSobre el puchoFrancisco RotundoFloreal RuiztangoOdeonNo match yet1951
- Aníbal TroiloSobre el puchoAníbal TroiloinstrumentaltangoRCA VictorNo match yet1968
- Horacio SalganSobre el puchoHoracio SalganEdmundo RiverotangoPhilipsNo match yet1969
- Osvaldo Manzi Y El Octeto MarabúSobre el puchoOsvaldo Manzi Y El Octeto MarabútangoMicrofonNo match yet1969
- Guillermo Barbieri, José RicardoNot in our catalogueCarlos Gardel1923
- Julio De CaroNot in our catalogue1925
- Julio De CaroNot in our catalogueSep 21925
- Cuarteto Troilo-GrelaNot in our catalogue1953
- Lita MoralesNot in our catalogueMar 211956
- Carlos FigariNot in our catalogueTita Merello1964
- Los Solistas de D'ArienzoNot in our catalogueAlberto Echagüe1983
- Tita MerelloNot in our catalogue
- Ernesto Baffa, Osvaldo BerlingieriNot in our catalogueRoberto Goyeneche
- Roberto GoyenecheNot in our catalogue
- Hugo DíazNot in our catalogue
- Julio De CaroNot in our catalogue
One recording
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Horacio Salgan
Sobre el puchoHoracio SalganEdmundo RiverotangoPhilipsNo couple filmed dancing this recording yet
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