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Desencuentro · Osvaldo Pugliese · 1962

Osvaldo PuglieseAlfredo BelusitangoPhilips
Music by Aníbal Troilo, lyrics by Catulo Castillo. 5 recordings in our catalogue, 1962–2006.

Who recorded it

Every version5

Earliest we hold: Aníbal Troilo, 1962

  1. Aníbal TroiloElba Berón · Roberto Rufino19621963
  2. Osvaldo PuglieseAlfredo Belusi1962
  3. Baffa-BerlingieriRoberto Goyeneche1968
  4. Orquesta Típica ImperialOmar Garré2006

Pinned at 1962 · Nuevo 1955–1984 · Osvaldo Pugliese recordings indexed 1943–1986 · gold: Maciel shines, 1954–1967

Desencuentro · Osvaldo Pugliese · 1962 was sung by Alfredo Belusi.†

The song

The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.

4 orchestras recorded it

119 Dances filmed to it

Who wrote it

Music
Aníbal Troilo
Words
Catulo Castillo
Written
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First played
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Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Lyrics

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

Estás desorientado y no sabés qué 'trole' hay que tomar para seguir. Y en este desencuentro con la fe querés cruzar el mar y no podés. La araña que salvaste te picó -¡qué vas a hacer!- y el hombre que ayudaste te hizo mal -¡dale nomás!- Y todo el carnaval gritando pisoteó la mano fraternal que Dios te dio. ¡Qué desencuentro! ¡Si hasta Dios está lejano! Llorás por dentro, todo es cuento, todo es vil. En el corso a contramano un trampeó a Jesús... No te fíes ni de tu hermano, se te cuelgan de la cruz... Quisiste con ternura, y el amor te devoró de atrás hasta el riñón. Se rieron de tu abrazo y ahí nomás te hundieron con rencor todo el arpón Amargo desencuentro, porque ves que es al revés... Creiste en la honradez y en la moral... ¡qué estupidez! Por eso en tu total fracaso de vivir, ni el tiro del final te va a salir.

English · machine translation

You are disoriented and don't know which 'trolley' to take to go on. And in this misunderstanding with faith you want to cross the sea and you cannot. The spider you saved has bitten you -what are you going to do? and the man you helped did you wrong -And the whole carnival And the whole carnival shouting trampled the brotherly hand that God gave you. What a misunderstanding! Even God is far away! You cry inside, all is fairy tale, all is vile. In the corso on the wrong side of the road a groupie cheated Jesus... Don't even trust your brother, they hang you from the cross... You loved with tenderness, and love devoured you from the back to the kidney. They laughed at your embrace and right there and then they sank you with rancor all the harpoon Bitter misunderstanding, because you see that it's the other way around... You believed in honesty and in morality... what a stupidity! That's why in your total failure to live, not even the final shot is not going to come out.

Every version

Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone

The catalogue holds 5 recordings of this song by 4 orchestras, 1962 to 2006.
1960’70’80’90’00
Recordings of Desencuentro · Osvaldo Pugliese · 1962 by year, taller the more they are danced · 5 of 5 recordings carry a year · read Nov 2, 2026

5 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 Aníbal Troilo, with 94% of the 119 filmed dances matched to a version of this song.

43 more dances name this song but not which version, so no share counts them. “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. Osvaldo PuglieseDesencuentroOsvaldo PuglieseAlfredo BelusitangoPhilips
    7 dances · 6%
    1962
  2. Baffa-BerlingieriDesencuentroBaffa-BerlingieriRoberto Goyenechetangorca camden
    No match yet
    1968
  3. Orquesta Típica ImperialDesencuentroOrquesta Típica ImperialOmar Garrétango
    No match yet
    2006
  4. Susana RinaldiNot in our catalogue
  5. Alberto MarinoNot in our catalogue
  6. Ernesto Baffa, Osvaldo BerlingieriNot in our catalogueRoberto Goyeneche
  7. Osvaldo PiroNot in our catalogue
  8. Sexteto CanyengueNot in our catalogueFabián Russo

One recording

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

Osvaldo Pugliese

DesencuentroOsvaldo PuglieseAlfredo BelusitangoPhilips

Couples filmed dancing this recording · 7 Performances

Danced to it

Music from 1962 · danced on film 2015–2019

20152019
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

2015: 1, 2016: 3, 2019: 1

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Data: recordings, facts and sources

Singers1

Sung by Alfredo BelusiAug 1, 1962

Vocal1

Vocal sung

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  1. DesencuentroAníbal TroiloElba Berón

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