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El último café · José Basso · 1963

José BassoJorge DurántangoMusic Hall
Music by Héctor Stamponi, lyrics by Catulo Castillo. 6 recordings in our catalogue, 1963–2019.

Who recorded it

Every version6

Earliest we hold: Fulvio Salamanca, 1963

  1. Juan D'ArienzoJorge Valdez1964
  2. José BassoJorge Durán1963
  3. Fulvio SalamancaJulio Rodolfo1963
  4. Sexteto TangoJorge Maciel1974
  5. Baffa-BerlingieriRoberto Goyeneche1968
  6. Matilde Vitullo2019

Pinned at 1963 · Nuevo 1955–1984 · José Basso recordings indexed 1948–1986

The song

The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.

6 orchestras recorded it

115 Dances filmed to it

Who wrote it

Music
Héctor Stamponi
Words
Catulo Castillo
Written
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First played
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Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Lyrics

Español

Llega tu recuerdo en torbellino, vuelve en el otoño a atardecer miro la garúa, y mientras miro, gira la cuchara de café. Del último café que tus labios con frío, pidieron esa vez con la voz de un suspiro. Recuerdo tu desdén, te evoco sin razón, te escucho sin que estés. 'Lo nuestro terminó', dijiste en un adiós de azúcar y de hiel... ¡Lo mismo que el café, que el amor, que el olvido! Que el vértigo final de un rencor sin porqué... Y allí, con tu impiedad, me vi morir de pie, medí tu vanidad y entonces comprendí mi soledad sin para qué... Llovía y te ofrecí, ¡el último café!

English · machine translation

Your memory arrives in a whirlwind, returns in the autumn at sunset I look at the drizzle, and while I look, the coffee spoon turns. From the last coffee that your lips coldly asked for that time with the voice of a sigh. I remember your disdain, I evoke you without reason, I listen to you without you being there. It's over between us, you said in a goodbye of sugar and gall... The same as coffee, as love, as oblivion! Than the final vertigo of a rancor without a reason... And there, with your impiety I saw myself die on my feet, I measured your vanity and then I understood my loneliness without what for... It was raining and I offered you, the last coffee!

Every version

Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone

The catalogue holds 6 recordings of this song by 6 orchestras, 1963 to 2019.
1960’70’80’90’00’10
Recordings of El último café · José Basso · 1963 by year, taller the more they are danced · 6 of 6 recordings carry a year · read Nov 2, 2026

6 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 14 more we know of

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

The leader is Juan D'Arienzo, 1964, with 100% of the 115 filmed dances matched to a version of this song.

16 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. Juan D'ArienzoMost dancedEl último caféJuan D'ArienzoJorge ValdeztangoRCA Victor
    115 dances · 100%
    1964
  2. Fulvio SalamancaEarliest we holdEl último caféFulvio SalamancaJulio Rodolfotango
    No match yet
    1963
  3. José BassoEl último caféJosé BassoJorge DurántangoMusic Hall
    No match yet
    1963
  4. Baffa-BerlingieriEl último caféBaffa-BerlingieriRoberto Goyenechetangorca camden
    No match yet
    1968
  5. Sexteto TangoEl último caféSexteto TangoJorge Macieltango
    No match yet
    1974
  6. Matilde VitulloEl último caféMatilde Vitullotango
    No match yet
    2019
  7. Leopoldo FedericoNot in our catalogueJulio Sosa · Dec 201963
  8. Fulvio SalamancaNot in our catalogueJulio Rodolfo1964
  9. Hugo del CarrilNot in our catalogue1969
  10. Rosanna FalascaNot in our catalogue1982
  11. Hugo del CarrilNot in our catalogue
  12. Susana RinaldiNot in our catalogue
  13. Ernesto Baffa, Osvaldo BerlingieriNot in our catalogueRoberto Goyeneche
  14. Esteban MorgadoNot in our catalogue
  15. Héctor StamponiNot in our catalogue
  16. María VolontéNot in our catalogue
  17. Miguel CalóNot in our catalogueHéctor De Rosas
  18. Osvaldo PiroNot in our catalogue
  19. Walter RíosNot in our catalogue
  20. Trio PantangoNot in our catalogue

One recording

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José Basso

El último caféJosé BassoJorge DurántangoMusic Hall

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