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No te apures Carablanca

Music by Roberto Garza, lyrics by Carlos Bahr. 3 recordings in our catalogue, 1942–1960.

Who recorded it

Every version3

Earliest we hold: Aníbal Troilo, 1942

  1. Aníbal TroiloFrancisco Fiorentino1942
  2. Lucio DemareJuan Carlos Miranda1942
  3. Armando PontierJulio Sosa1960

Versions of No te apures Carablanca recorded 1942–1960

No te apures Carablanca was composed by Roberto Garza.

No te apures Carablanca is a tango.

No te apures Carablanca was published in 1942.

The lyrics of No te apures Carablanca are by Carlos Bahr.

The song

The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.

3 orchestras recorded it

63 Dances filmed to it

Who wrote it

Music
Roberto Garza
Words
Carlos Bahr
Written
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First played
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Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Lyrics

Español

No te apures, Carablanca Que no tengo quien me espere, Nadie extraña mi retardo Para mí siempre es temprano Para llegar. No te apures, Carablanca Que al llegar me quedo solo, Y la noche va cayendo Y en las sombras los recuerdos Lastiman más. Me achica el corazón Salir del corralón Porque me sé perdido. Me tienta la ilusión Que ofrece el bodegón Con su copa de olvido. Caña en la pena Llama que me abrasa, Mal que no remedia Pena que se agranda. Siempre lo mismo: Voy, para olvidarla Y entre caña y caña La recuerdo más. No te apures, Carablanca Que aquí arriba del pescante, Mientras ando traqueteando Voy soñando, como cuando La conocí. No te apures, Carablanca Que no tengo quien me espere, Como entonces, cuando iba Compadreando la alegría De ser feliz.

English · machine translation

Don't hurry, Carablanca I have no one to wait for me, No one misses my delay For me it's always early To arrive. Don't hurry, Carablanca That when I arrive I'm alone, And the night is falling And in the shadows the memories Hurt more. It shrinks my heart To leave the corral Because I know I'm lost. I'm tempted by the illusion That the still life offers With its cup of oblivion. Cane in sorrow Flame that burns me, Evil that does not remedy Sorrow that enlarges. Always the same: I go, to forget her And between cane and cane I remember her more. Don't hurry, Carablanca That up here on the davit, While I'm rattling around I'm dreaming, like when I met her. Don't hurry, Carablanca I have no one to wait for me, Like then, when I was Compadreando la alegría Of being happy.

Every version

Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone

The catalogue holds 3 recordings of this song by 3 orchestras, 1942 to 1960.
1940’50’60
Recordings of No te apures Carablanca by year, taller the more they are danced · 3 of 3 recordings carry a year · read Nov 2, 2026

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

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

The leader is Lucio Demare, 1942, with 94% of the 63 filmed dances matched to a version of this song.

“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. Lucio DemareMost dancedNo te apures CarablancaLucio DemareJuan Carlos MirandatangoOdeon
    59 dances · 94%
    1942
  2. Aníbal TroiloEarliest we holdNo te apures CarablancaAníbal TroiloFrancisco FiorentinotangoRCA Victor
    4 dances · 6%
    1942
  3. Armando PontierNo te apures CarablancaArmando PontierJulio SosatangoCBS Columbia
    No match yet
    1960
  4. Roberto GarzaNot in our catalogueIgnacio Corsini1942
  5. Ignacio CorsiniNot in our catalogueOct 81942
  6. Alberto Di PauloNot in our catalogueNelly Omar1983
  7. Ignacio CorsiniNot in our catalogue
  8. -unspecified guitars-Not in our catalogueIgnacio Corsini
All recordings of No te apures Carablanca

One recording

A dated take, with its sound and the couples dancing it.

Lucio Demare

No te apures CarablancaLucio DemareJuan Carlos MirandatangoOdeon

Couples filmed dancing this recording · 60 Performances

Julio Robles2026 · 0:43

Danced to it

Music from 1942–1960 · danced on film 2009–2026

20092026
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

2009: 1, 2010: 1, 2011: 1, 2012: 3, 2013: 3, 2014: 3, 2015: 2, 2016: 4, 2017: 2, 2018: 2, 2019: 4, 2020: 2, 2021: 1, 2022: 7, 2023: 5, 2024: 1, 2025: 1, 2026: 1

Where it is danced

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

  1. Club Social y Deportivo Fulgor de Villa CrespoVilla Crespo
    1 performance
  2. Salón CanningPalermo
    1 performance

Filmed sets

One Couple dancing three or four songs at one Occasion, every song known. What was danced on film, not what a DJ played.

2 of 2 complete sets on film

  1. Sercan Yigit and Zeynep Aktar

    Belgrade Tango Encuentro, 2015 · In the order danced: the video titles number them

    1. 1Volvamos a empezarAlfredo De Angelis, 1953
    2. 2Milonga del recuerdoJuan D'Arienzo, 1939
    3. 3No te apures CarablancaLucio Demare, 1942
    Watch it on TangoTube
  2. Aldana Figueroa and Ariel Manzanares

    2023 · In the order danced: the video titles number them

    1. 1No te apures CarablancaLucio Demare, 1942
    2. 2Con tus besosEdgardo Donato, 1938
    3. 3Seguime si podésJuan D'Arienzo, 1945
    Watch it on TangoTube

Read more

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Data: recordings, facts and sources

Composer1

Composed by Roberto Garza

In other catalogues4

TodoTango · tema/340

tango.info · T0370190365

MusicBrainz · 8e6378f0-9fdc-4bbb-a0f8-33502e3278f2source

ISWC · T-037.019.036-5source

Is a1

Is a Tango

Published1

Published 1942

Lyricist1

Lyrics by Carlos Bahr

Listen

  1. No te apures CarablancaAníbal TroiloFrancisco FiorentinotangoRCA Victor
  2. No te apures CarablancaLucio DemareJuan Carlos MirandatangoOdeon
  3. No te apures CarablancaArmando PontierJulio SosatangoCBS Columbia

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