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El último café

Music by Héctor Stamponi, lyrics by Catulo Castillo. 6 recordings in our catalogue, 1963–2019.
1963: 2 · danced 0 times1964: 1 · danced 113 times1968: 1 · danced 0 times1974: 1 · danced 0 times2019: 1 · danced 0 times
1963’70’80’90’00’102019
records madedanced on film, by the record’s year· our catalogue

1963: 2, 0; 1964: 1, 113; 1968: 1, 0; 1974: 1, 0; 2019: 1, 0

  1. Juan D'Arienzo’s 1964 version holds 100% of its dancing (113 of 113).

    How we know

    Of the dances to its 6 recordings in our catalogue. Dances count filmed Occasions on TangoTube.

El último café was composed by Héctor Stamponi.

El último café is a tango.

The lyrics of El último café are by Catulo Castillo.

every sentence cites a published fact

Credit

Music
Héctor Stamponi
Lyrics
Catulo Castillo

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Every recording

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

1960’70’80’90’00’10

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

  1. Juan D'ArienzoMost dancedJorge Valdez · RCA Victor · Sep 25
    113 dances
    1964
  2. José BassoJorge Durán · Music Hall
    Not danced on film yet
    1963
  3. Fulvio SalamancaEarliest we holdJulio Rodolfo · Dec 19
    Not danced on film yet
    1963
  4. Sexteto TangoJorge Maciel · May 23
    Not danced on film yet
    1974
  5. Baffa-BerlingieriRoberto Goyeneche · rca camden
    Not danced on film yet
    1968
  6. Matilde VitulloJul 1
    Not danced on film 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

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!

Danced to it

Music from 1963–2019 · danced on film 2014–2026

20142026
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

2014: 8, 2015: 2, 2016: 3, 2017: 10, 2018: 17, 2019: 15, 2021: 2, 2022: 4, 2023: 10, 2024: 6, 2025: 3, 2026: 3

Where it is danced

The places our videos show it danced, by performances filmed there.

  1. Salón El Pial (La Baldosa)Flores
    1 performance

What we don't know yet3 of 4 known

The year it was written.

Data: recordings, facts and sources

Composer1

Composed by Héctor Stamponi

Supported · 2

In other catalogues2

TodoTango · tema/87

Single source

tango.info · T0370675005

Single source

Is a1

Is a Tango

Single source

Lyricist1

Lyrics by Catulo Castillo

Single source

Notes1

Raúl Lavié premieres El último café in 1963 at the first Odol song contest.1963

Single source

Listen

  1. El último caféFulvio Salamanca · Julio Rodolfo · no clip yet1963
  2. El último caféJosé Basso · Jorge Durán · no clip yet1963
  3. El último caféJuan D'Arienzo · Jorge Valdez1964
  4. El último caféBaffa-Berlingieri · Roberto Goyeneche · no clip yet1968
  5. El último caféSexteto Tango · Jorge Maciel1974
  6. El último caféMatilde Vitullo · no clip yet2019

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