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El último organito

Music by Acho Manzi, lyrics by Homero Manzi. 3 recordings in our catalogue, 1949–1957.

El último organito was composed by Acho Manzi and Homero Manzi.†† The lyrics of El último organito are by Homero Manzi and Acho Manzi.†

Credit

Music
Acho Manzi
Lyrics
Homero Manzi

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Every recording

3 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube

  1. Aníbal TroiloEarliest we holdMost dancedEdmundo Rivero · RCA Victor · Mar 3119495 dances
  2. Francisco CanaroAlberto Arenas · Odeon · Oct 131949
  3. Héctor GranéCarlos Marco19571 dance

Lyrics

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Las ruedas embarradas del último organito vendrán desde la tarde buscando el arrabal, con un caballo flaco y un rengo y un monito y un coro de muchachas vestidas de percal. Con pasos apagados elegirá la esquina donde se mezclan luces de luna y almacén para que bailen valses detrás de la hornacina la pálida marquesa y el pálido marqués. El último organito irá de puerta en puerta hasta encontrar la casa de la vecina muerta, de la vecina aquella que se cansó de amar; y allí molerá tangos para que llore el ciego, el ciego inconsolable del verso de Carriego, que fuma, fuma y fuma sentado en el umbral. Tendrá una caja blanca el último organito y el asma del otoño sacudirá su son, y adornarán sus tablas cabezas de angelitos y el eco de su piano será como un adiós. Saludarán su ausencia las novias encerradas abriendo las persianas detrás de su canción, y el último organito se perderá en la nada y el alma del suburbio se quedará sin voz.

English · machine translation

The muddy wheels of the last little organ will come from the afternoon looking for the suburb, with a skinny horse and a lame man and a little monkey and a chorus of girls dressed in percale. With muffled steps he will choose the corner where moonlight and warehouse mingle so that waltzes dance behind the niche the pale marquise and the pale marquis. The last little organ will go from door to door until it finds the house of the dead neighbor, of the neighbor who got tired of loving; and there it will grind tangos for the blind man to cry, the inconsolable blind man of Carriego's verse, who smokes, smokes and smokes sitting on the threshold. The last little organ will have a white box and the asthma of autumn will shake its sound, and its boards will adorn the heads of little angels and the echo of its piano will be like a goodbye. The locked-up brides will greet his absence opening the blinds behind his song, and the last little organ will be lost in nothingness and the soul of the suburb will be voiceless.

Danced to it

Music from 1949–1957 · danced on film 2006–2017

20062017
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

2006: 1, 2015: 1, 2016: 3, 2017: 2

What we don't know yet3 of 4 known

The year it was written.

Data: recordings, facts and sources

Recordings by year

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

19491957

1949: 2, 1957: 1

Composer2

Composed by Acho Manzi

Sources disagree · 2

Composed by Homero Manzi

Sources disagree

In other catalogues3

tango.info · T0370065761

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TodoTango · tema/276

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MusicBrainz · 09d04fe7-216f-4b34-9a76-a8f2365d4051source

Single source

Lyricist2

Lyrics by Homero Manzi

Single source

Lyrics by Acho Manzi

Single source

Listen

  1. El último organitoAníbal Troilo · Edmundo Rivero1949
  2. El último organitoFrancisco Canaro · Alberto Arenas1949
  3. El último organitoHéctor Grané · Carlos Marco · no clip yet1957

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