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Valsecito de antes

Music by Antonio Sureda, lyrics by Homero Manzi. 2 recordings in our catalogue, 1937–1952.
1937: 1 · danced 65 times1952: 1 · danced 0 times
1937’40’501952
records madedanced on film, by the record’s year· our catalogue

1937: 1, 65; 1952: 1, 0

Valsecito de antes was composed by Antonio Sureda.

Valsecito de antes is a vals.

The lyrics of Valsecito de antes are by Homero Manzi.

every sentence cites a published fact

Credit

Music
Antonio Sureda
Lyrics
Homero Manzi

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Every recording

2 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 4 more we know of

1930’40’50

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

  1. Juan D'ArienzoEarliest we holdMost dancedInstrumental · RCA Victor · Aug 31
    65 dances
    1937
  2. Domingo FedericoArmando Moreno · RCA Victor · Sep 11
    Not danced on film yet
    1952
  3. Juan Bautista GuidoNot in our catalogueJoaquina Carreras · Oct 81929
  4. Dante RessiaNot in our catalogue1954
  5. -unspecified guitars-Not in our catalogueDante Ressia · Sep 71954
  6. -unspecified guitars-Not in our catalogueRoberto Díaz

Lyrics

Español · Underlined words are lunfardo: tap one for its meaning.

Valsecito que traes el perfume de los bailes debajo del parral, y el recuerdo del gringo organista que sonaba por el arrabal. La poesía del barrio de entonces se despierta en tu viejo compás, y la mente dibuja el paisaje de un patio estrellado detrás de un portal. Para llorar tu sentir te enredás en el violín, y acollarás el matungo de tu son al bajo del bandoneón. Y si sopla un vendaval en la huella del querer, en la guitarra gentil del sos el lamento mejor. Los muchachos te rezan silbando y las pibas te cantan también. Y el trovero gangoso del barrio en tus notas diluye un desdén. Y si junto a la reja en tus sones se perfuma la voz de un cantor, un par de ojos borrachos de ensueño te dicen las gracias con un lagrimón. Si en la esquina pintada del barrio se destrenza tu humilde canción de ternuras las noches plateadas prenden una estrellita de amor. Porque fuiste el primer cancionero para el alma del barrio cantor, sos la contra del tango malevo y si él es guapeza, vos sos todo amor.

English · machine translation

Valsecito you bring the perfume of the dances under the grapevine, and the memory of the gringo organist that sounded in the suburbs. The poetry of the neighborhood of that time awakens in your old compass, and the mind draws the landscape of a starry courtyard behind a doorway. To mourn your feelings you will entangle yourself in the violin and you will cushion the matungo of your son to the bass of the bandoneon. And if a gale blows in the footprint of love, in the gentle guitar of the payador you are the best lament. The boys pray to you whistling and the girls sing to you too. And the neighborhood's trovero gangoso in your notes dilutes a disdain. And if next to the grille in your sounds the voice of a singer is perfumed, a pair of drunken dreamy eyes say thank you with a tear. If in the painted corner of the neighborhood your humble song is untrenched of tenderness the silver nights light a little star of love. Because you were the first songbook for the soul of the singing neighborhood, you are the counter of the malevo tango and if he is guapeza, you are all love.

Danced to it

Music from 1937–1952 · danced on film 2009–2026

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

2009: 1, 2010: 2, 2011: 4, 2012: 4, 2013: 3, 2014: 4, 2015: 7, 2016: 3, 2018: 1, 2019: 6, 2022: 1, 2023: 2, 2024: 4, 2025: 5, 2026: 2

Where it is danced

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

  1. El Yeite Tango ClubVilla Crespo
    2 performances
  2. Club Sin RumboVilla Urquiza
    1 performance
  3. La Viruta (Centro Armenio)Palermo
    1 performance
  4. 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 Antonio Sureda

Supported · 2

In other catalogues3

TodoTango · tema/573

Single source

tango.info · T0370029483

Single source

MusicBrainz · 45a1bd44-9203-42a9-8da0-6dabdb92e297source

Single source

Is a1

Is a Vals

Single source

Lyricist1

Lyrics by Homero Manzi

Single source

Listen

  1. Valsecito de antesJuan D'Arienzo1937
  2. Valsecito de antesDomingo Federico · Armando Moreno1952

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