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Organito de la tarde · Orquesta Escuela de Tango · 2003

Orquesta Escuela de Tangosinger unknowntango
Music by Cátulo Castillo, lyrics by José González Castillo. 17 recordings in our catalogue, 1925–2003.

Pinned at 2003 · Electronic and festival era 2000– · Orquesta Escuela de Tango recordings indexed 2000–2013

The song

The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.

12 orchestras recorded it

90 Dances filmed to it

Who wrote it

Music
Cátulo Castillo
Words
José González Castillo
Written
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Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Lyrics

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Al paso tardo de un pobre viejo puebla de notas el arrabal, con un concierto de vidrios rotos, el organito crepuscular. Dándole vueltas a la manija un hombre rengo marcha detrás mientras la dura pata de palo marca del tango el compás. En las notas de esa musiquita hay no sé qué de vaga sensación que el barrio parece impregnarse todo de emoción. Y es porque son tantos los recuerdos que a su paso despertando va que llena las almas con un gran deseo de llorar. Y al triste son de esa su canción sigue el organito lerdo como sembrando a su paso más pesar en el recuerdo, más calor en el ocaso. Y allá se va de su tango al son como buscando la noche que apagará su canción. Cuentan las viejas que todo saben y que el pianito junta a charlar que aquel viejito tuvo una hija que era la gloria del arrabal. Cuentan que el rengo era su novio y que en el corte no tuvo igual... Supo con ella, y en las milongas, con aquel tango reinar. Pero vino un día un forastero, bailarín, buen mozo y peleador que en una milonga compañera y pierna le quitó. Desde entonces es que padre y novio van buscando por el arrabal la ingrata muchacha al compás de aquel tango fatal.

English · machine translation

At the slow pace of a poor old man populates the suburb with notes, with a concert of broken glass, the twilight organ. Turning the handle a lame man marches behind while the hard wooden leg marks the tango beat. In the notes of that little music there is some vague sensation that the neighborhood seems to be impregnated with emotion. And it is because there are so many memories that in its wake it awakens that fills the souls with a great desire to cry. And to the sad sound of that song of hers follows the little slow organ as if sowing in its wake more sorrow in the memory, more warmth in the sunset. And there it goes of its tango to the sound as if searching for the night that will extinguish his song. The old women tell that they know everything and that the little piano brings them together to chat that that old man had a daughter who was the glory of the suburb. They say that the lame man was her boyfriend and that in the court she had no equal... He knew with her, and in the milongas, with that tango to reign. But one day a stranger came, dancer, handsome and a fighter who in a milonga and leg he took away his partner and his leg. Since then, father and boyfriend have been looking for the ungrateful girl the ungrateful girl to the beat of that fatal tango.

Every version

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The catalogue holds 17 recordings of this song by 12 orchestras, 1925 to 2003.
1920’30’40’50’60’70’80’90’00
Recordings of Organito de la tarde · Orquesta Escuela de Tango · 2003 by year, taller the more they are danced · 17 of 17 recordings carry a year · read Nov 1, 2026

17 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 28 more we know of

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

The leader is Carlos Di Sarli, with 97% of the 90 filmed dances matched to a version of this song.

8 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. Rodolfo BiagiOrganito de la tardeRodolfo BiagiinstrumentaltangoOdeon
    1 dance · 1%
    1956
  2. Quinteto Real (Horacio Salgán)Organito de la tardeQuinteto Real (Horacio Salgán)singer unknowntangoColumbia
    1 dance · 1%
    1960
  3. Alberto MarinoOrganito de la tardeAlberto Marinosinger unknowntango
    No match yet
    1947
  4. Ricardo PedevillaOrganito de la tardeRicardo Pedevillasinger unknowntangoPampa
    No match yet
    1950
  5. Puglia-PedrozaOrganito de la tardePuglia-Pedrozasinger unknowntango
    No match yet
    1951
  6. Juan D'ArienzoOrganito de la tardeJuan D'ArienzoinstrumentaltangoRCA Victor
    No match yet
    1967
  7. José BassoOrganito de la tardeJosé Bassosinger unknowntango
    No match yet
    1970
  8. Orquesta El ArranqueOrganito de la tardeOrquesta El Arranquesinger unknowntango
    No match yet
    2002
  9. Orquesta Escuela de TangoOrganito de la tardeOrquesta Escuela de Tangosinger unknowntango
    No match yet
    2003
  10. Roberto FirpoNot in our catalogue1924
  11. Guillermo Barbieri, José RicardoNot in our catalogueCarlos Gardel1925
  12. Roberto FirpoNot in our catalogue1937
  13. -unspecified orchestra-Not in our catalogueNelly Omar1945
  14. Gabriel ClausiNot in our catalogueChito Faró1946
  15. Emilio BalcarceNot in our catalogueAlberto Marino · Apr 91947
  16. Luis Nicolas ViscaNot in our catalogue1950
  17. Luis Nicolas ViscaNot in our catalogue1951

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Orquesta Escuela de Tango

Organito de la tardeOrquesta Escuela de Tangosinger unknowntango

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  1. Organito de la tardeFrancisco Canarosinger unknown

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