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Sueño de juventud

Music by Enrique Santos Discepolo, lyrics by Enrique Santos Discepolo. 7 recordings in our catalogue, 1931–2002.
1931: 2 · danced 0 times1944: 1 · danced 4 times1945: 1 · danced 0 times1952: 1 · danced 0 times1954: 1 · danced 3 times2002: 1 · danced 0 times
1931’40’50’60’70’80’902002
records madedanced on film, by the record’s year· our catalogue

1931: 2, 0; 1944: 1, 4; 1945: 1, 0; 1952: 1, 0; 1954: 1, 3; 2002: 1, 0

  1. Carlos Di Sarli recorded it in 1945, 1952 and 1954.

    How we know

    Takes in our catalogue by the same orchestra in different years; the canon’s first orchestra is named.

Sueño de juventud was composed by Enrique Santos Discepolo.

Sueño de juventud is a vals.

Sueño de juventud was published in 1931.

The lyrics of Sueño de juventud are by Enrique Santos Discepolo.

every sentence cites a published fact

Credit

Music
Enrique Santos Discepolo
Lyrics
Enrique Santos Discepolo

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Every recording

7 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 24 more we know of

1930’40’50’60’70’80’90’00

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

  1. Carlos Di SarliJorge Durán · RCA Victor · Sep 28
    Not danced on film yet
    1945
  2. Carlos Di SarliOscar Serpa · Music Hall · Jun 10
    Not danced on film yet
    1952
  3. Carlos Di SarliOscar Serpa · RCA Victor · Aug 31
    3 dances
    1954
  4. Rodolfo BiagiMost dancedCarlos Acuña · Odeon · Apr 11
    4 dances
    1944
  5. Francisco CanaroEarliest we holdCharlo · Odeon · Sep 2
    Not danced on film yet
    1931
  6. Francisco LomutoFernando Díaz · RCA Victor · Oct 8
    Not danced on film yet
    1931
  7. Orquesta Escuela de TangoNoelia Moncada · Aug 1
    Not danced on film yet
    2002
  8. Pedro MaffiaNot in our catalogueFrancisco Fiorentino1930
  9. -unspecified orchestra-Not in our catalogueAgustín Magaldi1930
  10. Carlos Di SarliNot in our catalogueMercedes Carné1931
  11. Julio De CaroNot in our catalogueTeófilo Ibáñez1931
  12. Pedro MaffiaNot in our catalogueFrancisco Fiorentino1931
  13. Alberto CastellanoNot in our catalogueTania1931
  14. Orquesta Típica VictorNot in our catalogueAlberto Gómez · Oct 91931
  15. -unspecified guitars-Not in our catalogueIgnacio Corsini · Nov 181931
  16. Carlos GardelNot in our catalogueJul 231932
  17. Emilio PellejeroNot in our catalogueEduardo Adrián1946
  18. Tito RiberoNot in our catalogueVirginia Luque1959
  19. Virginia LuqueNot in our catalogue1960
  20. Hugo DíazNot in our catalogue1973

Lyrics

Español

Sufres porque me aleja la fe de un mañana que busco afanoso tan sólo por ti. Y es un collar de estrellas que tibio desgranan tus ojos hermosos llorándome así. Sueño de juventud que muere en tu adiós, tímida remembranza que añoraré, canto de una esperanza que ambicioné acariciando tu alma en mi soledad. Mi pobre corazón no sabe pensar, y al ver que lo alejan de ti sólo sabe llorar, sólo sabe gemir, sangrando al morir en tu adiós... Lírico amor primero, caricia y tortura, castigo y dulzura de mi amanecer. Yo acunaré en un canto tu inmensa ternura buscando en mi cielo tu imagen de ayer.

English · machine translation

You suffer because I am driven away the faith of a tomorrow that I am eagerly looking for just for you. And it is a necklace of stars that your beautiful eyes your beautiful eyes crying to me like this. Dream of youth that dies in your goodbye, shy remembrance that I will long for, song of a hope that I longed for caressing your soul in my solitude. My poor heart does not know how to think, and when it sees that it is taken away from you it only knows how to cry, it only knows how to moan, bleeding to death in your goodbye... Lyrical love first, caress and torture, punishment and sweetness of my dawn. I will cradle in a song your immense tenderness searching in my sky your image of yesterday.

Danced to it

Music from 1931–2002 · danced on film 2017–2025

20172025
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

2017: 1, 2018: 1, 2023: 1, 2024: 1, 2025: 2

Gianpiero Galdi & Lorena Tarantino2025 · 3:01

Through the decades

  1. The 2010sTamara Bisceglia & Eddy Hernandez2017
  2. The 2020sGianpiero Galdi & Lorena Tarantino2025
Data: recordings, facts and sources

Composer1

Composed by Enrique Santos Discepolo

Supported · 2

In other catalogues3

TodoTango · tema/349

Single source

tango.info · T0370027636

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MusicBrainz · 79c94919-32be-4819-8612-892d2a026c35source

Single source

Is a1

Is a Vals

Single source

Published1

Published 1931

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Lyricist1

Lyrics by Enrique Santos Discepolo

Single source

Notes2

Composed by Enrique Santos Discépolo, a self-taught musician and close personal friend of Carlos Di Sarli who dictated his tunes for others to write down; Di Sarli lost his recording contract in July 1931, just before the song became a hit that September, so no Di Sarli recording exists.

Single source

Every recorded version of this waltz is unusually slow; it is not meant for dancing so much as listening, and it is not a Creole-style waltz but a more modern composition.

Single source

Listen

  1. Sueño de juventudFrancisco Canaro · Charlo · no clip yet1931
  2. Sueño de juventudFrancisco Lomuto · Fernando Díaz1931
  3. Sueño de juventudRodolfo Biagi · Carlos Acuña1944
  4. Sueño de juventudCarlos Di Sarli · Jorge Durán1945
  5. Sueño de juventudCarlos Di Sarli · Oscar Serpa1952
  6. Sueño de juventudCarlos Di Sarli · Oscar Serpa1954
  7. Sueño de juventudOrquesta Escuela de Tango · Noelia Moncada · no clip yet2002

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