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Bajo un cielo de estrellas · Orquesta Típica Sans Souci · 2003

Orquesta Típica Sans SouciEl Chino Labordevals
Music by Enrique Francini, Héctor Stamponi, lyrics by José María Contursi. 4 recordings in our catalogue, 1941–2021.

Pinned at 2003 · Electronic and festival era 2000– · Orquesta Típica Sans Souci recordings indexed 2003–2020

The song

The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.

4 orchestras recorded it

207 Dances filmed to it

Who wrote it

Music
Enrique Francini, Héctor Stamponi
Words
José María Contursi
Written
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Lyrics

Español

Mucho tiempo después de alejarme, vuelvo al barrio que un día dejé... con el ansia de ver por sus calles mis viejos amigos, el viejo café. En la noche tranquila y oscura hasta el aire parece decir: "No te olvides que siempre fui tuya y sigo esperando que vuelvas a mí". En esta noche vuelvo a ser aquel muchacho soñador que supo amarte y con sus versos te brindó sus penas... Hay una voz que me dice al oído : "Yo sé que has venido por ella... por ella !". Qué amable y qué triste es a la vez la soledad del arrabal con sus casitas y los árboles que pintan sombras. Sentir que todo... que todo la nombra, ¡qué ganas enormes me dan de llorar! Bajo el cielo cubierto de estrellas una sombra parezco al pasar... No he de verme jamás con aquella ¡qué tanto mi quiso... y hoy debo olvidar! En la noche tranquila y oscura hasta el aire parece decir: "Para qué recordar que fui tuya si yo ya no espero que vuelvas a mí!".

English · machine translation

A long time after moving away, I return to the neighborhood I once left... with the longing to see in its streets my old friends, the old café. In the quiet and dark night even the air seems to say: "Don't forget that I was always yours and I'm still waiting for you to come back to me". In this night I am again that dreamer boy who knew how to love you and with his verses gave you his sorrows... There is a voice that says in my ear: "I know that you have come for her... for her". How kind and how sad it is at the same time the solitude of the suburb with its little houses and the trees that paint shadows. To feel that everything... everything names her, what a great desire to cry! Under the sky covered with stars I look like a shadow as I pass by... I will never see myself with the one Who loved me so much... and today I must forget! In the quiet and dark night even the air seems to say: "Why remember that I was yours if I no longer expect you to come back to me!

Every version

Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone

The catalogue holds 4 recordings of this song by 4 orchestras, 1941 to 2021.
1940’50’60’70’80’90’00’10’20
Recordings of Bajo un cielo de estrellas · Orquesta Típica Sans Souci · 2003 by year, taller the more they are danced · 4 of 4 recordings carry a year · read Nov 1, 2026

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

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

The leader is Miguel Caló, 1941, with 86% of the 207 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. Miguel CalóEarliest we holdMost dancedBajo un cielo de estrellasMiguel CalóAlberto PodestávalsOdeon
    178 dances · 86%
    1941
  2. Francisco LomutoBajo un cielo de estrellasFrancisco LomutoFernando DíazvalsRCA Victor
    18 dances · 9%
    1941
  3. Orquesta Típica Sans SouciBajo un cielo de estrellasOrquesta Típica Sans SouciEl Chino Labordevals
    11 dances · 5%
    2003
  4. Orquesta Romantica MilongueraBajo un cielo de estrellasOrquesta Romantica MilongueraRoberto Minondivals
    No match yet
    2021
  5. Aníbal TroiloNot in our catalogueFrancisco Fiorentino1941
  6. Leopoldo FedericoNot in our catalogueAlberto Podestá1973
  7. Adriana VarelaNot in our catalogue
  8. Aníbal TroiloNot in our catalogue
  9. Quinteto VentarrónNot in our catalogue
  10. Sexteto MilongueroNot in our catalogue
  11. Walter LabordeNot in our catalogue

One recording

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

Orquesta Típica Sans Souci

Bajo un cielo de estrellasOrquesta Típica Sans SouciEl Chino Labordevals

Couples filmed dancing this recording · 12 Performances

Danced to it

Music from 2003 · danced on film 2009–2022

20092022
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

2009: 1, 2015: 2, 2017: 1, 2022: 2

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Danced alongside it

Our data: the recordings most often danced in the same filmed Performance as this one (one Couple dancing one to eight songs). Nearer the middle, more Performances.

  1. 1La última curdaAníbal Troilo, 1956 · danced together in 2 Performances

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