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Romance de barrio · Juan José Mosalini · 2001

Music by Aníbal Troilo, lyrics by Homero Manzi. 5 recordings in our catalogue, 1947–2007.
1947: 1 · danced 114 times1960: 1 · danced 0 times2005: 1 · danced 4 times2006: 1 · danced 0 times2007: 1 · danced 0 times
1947’60’70’80’90’002007
records madedanced on film, by the record’s year· our catalogue

1947: 1, 114; 1960: 1, 0; 2005: 1, 4; 2006: 1, 0; 2007: 1, 0

  1. Aníbal Troilo’s 1947 version holds 96% of its dancing (114 of 118).

    How we know

    Of the dances to its 5 recordings in our catalogue. Dances count filmed Occasions on TangoTube.

  2. Orquesta Típica Imperial recorded it in 2006 and 2007.

    How we know

    Takes in our catalogue by the same orchestra in different years; the canon’s first orchestra is named.

Credit

Music
Aníbal Troilo
Lyrics
Homero Manzi

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Every recording

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

1940’50’60’70’80’90’00

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

  1. Aníbal TroiloEarliest we holdMost dancedFloreal Ruiz · RCA Victor · Aug 19
    114 dances
    1947
  2. Quinteto Real (Horacio Salgán)Columbia
    Not danced on film yet
    1960
  3. Orquesta Típica Silencio
    4 dances
    2005
  4. Orquesta Típica ImperialCristina De Los Angeles · Aug 1
    Not danced on film yet
    2006
  5. Orquesta Típica Imperial
    Not danced on film yet
    2007
  6. Susana RinaldiNot in our catalogue1969
  7. Los Indios TacunaoNot in our catalogue1969
  8. Carlos GarcíaNot in our catalogueOscar Alonso · Sep 101969
  9. Hernán SalinasNot in our catalogueAug 41980
  10. Anibal Arias, Osvaldo José MontesNot in our catalogue
  11. Ernesto BaffaNot in our catalogue
  12. Ernesto Baffa, Osvaldo BerlingieriNot in our catalogueRoberto Goyeneche
  13. Franco LucianiNot in our catalogue
  14. Roberto GoyenecheNot in our catalogue
  15. Hugo DíazNot in our catalogue
  16. Juan José MosaliniNot in our catalogue
  17. Rodolfo MederosNot in our catalogue
  18. Conjunto Los cosos de al laoNot in our catalogue
  19. Los muchachos de antesNot in our catalogue
  20. Muzet RoyalNot in our catalogue

Lyrics

Español

Primero la cita lejana de abril, tu oscuro balcón, tu antiguo jardín. Más tarde las cartas de pulso febril mintiendo que no, jurando que sí. Romance de barrio tu amor y mi amor. Primero un querer, después un dolor, por culpas que nunca tuvimos, por culpas que debimos sufrir los dos. Hoy vivirás despreciándome, tal vez sin soñar que lamento al no poderte tener el dolor de no saber olvidar. Hoy estarás como nunca lejos mío, lejos de tanto llorar. Fue porque sí, que el despecho te cegó como a mí, sin mirar que en el rencor del adiós castigabas con crueldad tu corazón. Fue porque sí que de pronto no supimos pensar, que es más fácil renegar y partir que vivir sin olvidar. Ceniza del tiempo la cita de abril, tu oscuro balcón, tu antiguo jardín las cartas trazadas con mano febril mintiendo que no, jurando que sí. Retornan vencidas tu voz y mi voz trayendo al volver con tonos de horror, las culpas que nunca tuvimos las culpas que debimos pagar los dos.

English · machine translation

First the distant April rendezvous, your dark balcony, your old garden. Later the letters of feverish pulse lying no, swearing yes. Neighborhood romance your love and my love. First a love, then a pain, for faults we never had, for faults we should have both suffered. Today you will live despising me, perhaps without dreaming that I regret not being able to have you the pain of not knowing how to forget. Today you will be as never far from me, far from so much crying. It was because that spite blinded you as it did me, without looking that in the rancor of goodbye you punished your heart with cruelty. It was because that suddenly we didn't know how to think, that it is easier to renege and leave than to live without forgetting. Ashes of time the date of April, your dark balcony, your old garden the letters drawn with a feverish hand lying no, swearing yes. Your voice and my voice return defeated bringing back with tones of horror the faults we never had the faults we should have paid for both of us.

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  1. Romance de barrioAníbal Troilo · Floreal Ruiz1947

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