Song
El motivo
1942: 1, 2; 1944: 1, 29; 1947: 1, 3; 1949: 1, 0; 1951: 1, 0; 1961: 1, 106; 1962: 1, 0; 1965: 4, 0; 1966: 1, 8; 1968: 1, 6; 1970: 1, 2; 1987: 1, 0
Aníbal Troilo’s 1961 version holds 67% of its dancing (106 of 156).
How we know
Of the dances to its 15 recordings in our catalogue. Dances count filmed Occasions on TangoTube.
Aníbal Troilo recorded it in 1961 and 1965.
How we know
Takes in our catalogue by the same orchestra in different years; the canon’s first orchestra is named.
El motivo is a tango.
El motivo was composed by Juan Carlos Cobian.
The lyrics of El motivo are by Pascual Contursi.
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Credit
- Music
- Juan Carlos Cobián
- Lyrics
- Pascual Contursi
Source: TangoCloud catalogue
Every recording
15 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 12 more we know of
Choose A and B on two recordings to hear them one after the other.
- Aníbal TroiloMost dancedRoberto Goyeneche · RCA Victor · Aug 23106 dances1961
- Aníbal TroiloTito Reyes · RCA Victor · Dec 1Not danced on film yet1965
- Aníbal TroiloTito Reyes · RCA Victor · Dec 16Not danced on film yet1965
- Osvaldo PuglieseInstrumental · Philips · Aug 18 dances1966
- Julio De CaroEarliest we holdInstrumental2 dances1942
- Alberto MancioneFrancisco Fiorentino · Mar 30Not danced on film yet1951
- José BassoFloreal Ruiz · Music Hall · Apr 1Not danced on film yet1962
- Horacio SalganInstrumental · PhilipsNot danced on film yet1965
- Nuevo Quinteto Real (Horacio Salgán)Instrumental · PhilipsNot danced on film yet1987
- Juan Carlos CobianInstrumental29 dances1944
- Roberto GoyenecheInstrumental · Apr 106 dances1968
- Alberto MarinoInstrumental · Nov 63 dances1947
- Aníbal Troilo y Astor PiazzollaInstrumental · RCA Victor · Aug 132 dances1970
- Eduardo Del PianoÁngel Vargas · RCA Victor · Dec 28Not danced on film yet1949
- Reynaldo NicheleInstrumental · MicrofonNot danced on film yet1965
- Roberto FirpoNot in our catalogueInstrumental1919
- José RicardoNot in our catalogueCarlos Gardel1920
- Emilio BalcarceNot in our catalogueAlberto Marino · Nov 61947
- Ciriaco Ortiz, Ubaldo Aquiles De LioNot in our catalogueInstrumental1965
- Edmundo RiveroNot in our catalogue
Lyrics
Español · Underlined words are lunfardo: tap one for its meaning.
Mina que fue en otro tiempo la más papa y en esas noches tangueras fue la reina del festín. Hoy no tiene pa' ponerse ni zapatos ni vestidos, anda enferma y el amigo no aportó para el . Ya no tienen sus ojazos esos fuertes resplandores y en su cara los colores se le ven palidecer. Está enferma, sufre y llora y manya con sentimiento de que así, enferma y sin más naide la va a querer. Pobre que ha tenido a la gente rechiflada y supo con la mirada conquistar una pasión. Hoy no tiene quien se arrime por cariño a su . ¡Pobre arrabalera que quedó sin corazón! Y cuando de los bandoneones se oyen las notas de un tango, pobre florcita de fango siente en su alma vibrar las nostalgias de otros tiempos de placeres y de amores, ¡hoy sólo son sinsabores que la invitan a llorar!
English · machine translation
Mina who was once the most papa milonguera and in those tango nights she was the queen of the feast. Today she has no shoes or dresses neither shoes nor dresses, she is sick and her friend did not contribute to the bulín. Her big eyes no longer have no longer have those strong glares and in his face the colors pale on her face. She is sick, she suffers and cries and manya with feeling that this way, sick and without wind no one will love her anymore. Poor paica who has had the people reproached and knew how to conquer a passion to conquer a passion. Today she has no one to come close for affection to her catrera. Poor little paica who was left without a heart! And when from the bandoneons the notes of a tango are heard, poor little mud flower feels in her soul vibrating the nostalgia of other times of pleasures and loves, today they are only sorrows that invite her to weep!
Danced to it
Music from 1942–1987 · danced on film 2008–2026
2008: 1, 2010: 3, 2011: 1, 2012: 3, 2013: 1, 2014: 6, 2015: 8, 2016: 5, 2017: 8, 2018: 5, 2019: 17, 2020: 3, 2021: 9, 2022: 15, 2023: 15, 2024: 11, 2025: 17, 2026: 10
Where it is danced
The places our videos show it danced, by performances filmed there.
What we don't know yet3 of 4 known
The year it was written.
Data: recordings, facts and sources
In other catalogues4
TodoTango · tema/1467
Single sourcetango.info · T0370019810
Single sourceTodoTango · tema/169
Single sourceMusicBrainz · 35683a6b-7578-486c-9785-d28ce33aa1absource
Single sourceIs a1
Is a Tango
Single sourceComposer1
Composed by Juan Carlos Cobian
Single sourceLyricist1
Lyrics by Pascual Contursi
Single sourcePremiered at1
Premiered at Teatro NacionalJul 25, 1919
Single sourceListen
- El motivoJulio De Caro1942
- El motivoJuan Carlos Cobian1944
- El motivoAlberto Marino · Alberto Marino1947
- El motivoEduardo Del Piano · Ángel Vargas · no clip yet1949
- El motivoAlberto Mancione · Francisco Fiorentino · no clip yet1951
- El motivoAníbal Troilo · Roberto Goyeneche1961
- El motivoJosé Basso · Floreal Ruiz1962
- El motivoAníbal Troilo · Tito Reyes1965
- El motivoAníbal Troilo · Tito Reyes1965
- El motivoHoracio Salgan · no clip yet1965
- El motivono clip yet1965
- El motivoOsvaldo Pugliese1966
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