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La noche que te fuiste · Armando Pontier · 1979

Armando PontierRoberto Goyenechetango
Music by Osmar Maderna, lyrics by José María Contursi. 4 recordings in our catalogue, 1945–2014.

Who recorded it

Every version4

Earliest we hold: Miguel Caló, 1945

  1. Aníbal TroiloFloreal Ruiz1945
  2. Miguel CalóRaúl Iriarte1945
  3. Armando PontierRoberto Goyeneche1979
  4. Orquesta Típica Sans SouciEl Chino Laborde2014

Pinned at 1979 · Nuevo 1955–1984 · Armando Pontier recordings indexed 1955–1979

La noche que te fuiste · Armando Pontier · 1979 was sung by Roberto Goyeneche.† La noche que te fuiste · Armando Pontier · 1979 is a tango.† La noche que te fuiste · Armando Pontier · 1979 lasts 03:41.†

The song

The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.

4 orchestras recorded it

53 Dances filmed to it

Who wrote it

Music
Osmar Maderna
Words
José María Contursi
Written
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First played
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Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Lyrics

Español

A veces, cuando en sueños tu imagen aparece, radiante y fugaz como un rayo de sol, siento que tus manos entibian las mías trémulas y frías... ¡y hablas de tu amor ! Entonces lentamente mi espíritu adormeces, arrullo sutil de una vieja canción, aquélla que cantabas cuando tú eras mía, fantasma febril que se aleja burlón. La noche que te fuiste (más triste que ninguna) palideció la luna y se tornó más gris la soledad... La lluvia castigando mi angustia en el cristal y el viento murmurando : Ya no vendrá más. La noche que te fuiste nevó sobre mi hastío y un hálito de frío las cosas envolvió... Mis sueños y mi juventud cayeron muertos con tu adiós... La noche que te fuiste se fue mi corazón... Más fuerte que tu olvido, el tiempo y la distancia, se ensaña, tenaz con mi desolación, el remordimiento de todo el pasado ¡todo mi pasado trágico y burlón ! Por eso cuando en sueños tu imagen se agiganta y entonas sutil esa vieja canción, yo vuelvo a ser entonces el de aquellos días, radiante y feliz como un rayo de sol.

English · machine translation

Sometimes, when in dreams your image appears, radiant and fleeting like a ray of sunshine, I feel your hands warm mine trembling and cold... and you speak of your love! Then you slowly lull my spirit to sleep, subtle cooing of an old song, the one you used to sing when you were mine, feverish phantom that mockingly moves away. The night you left (sadder than any other) the moon paled and the loneliness became grayer... The rain punishing my anguish on the glass and the wind murmuring: He won't come anymore. The night you left it snowed on my boredom and a breath of cold enveloped things... My dreams and my youth fell dead with your goodbye... The night you left my heart was gone... Stronger than your oblivion, time and distance, it rages, tenacious with my desolation, the remorse of all the past all my tragic and mocking past! That's why when in dreams your image is agigantic and you subtly intone that old song I then become again the man of those days, radiant and happy as a ray of sunshine.

Every version

Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone

The catalogue holds 4 recordings of this song by 4 orchestras, 1945 to 2014.
1940’50’60’70’80’90’00’10
Recordings of La noche que te fuiste · Armando Pontier · 1979 by year, taller the more they are danced · 4 of 4 recordings carry a year · read Nov 2, 2026

4 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 6 more we know of

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

The leader is Aníbal Troilo, 1945, with 55% of the 53 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. Aníbal TroiloMost dancedLa noche que te fuisteAníbal TroiloFloreal RuiztangoRCA Victor
    29 dances · 55%
    1945
  2. Miguel CalóEarliest we holdLa noche que te fuisteMiguel CalóRaúl IriartetangoOdeon
    19 dances · 36%
    1945
  3. Orquesta Típica Sans SouciLa noche que te fuisteOrquesta Típica Sans SouciEl Chino Labordetango
    5 dances · 9%
    2014
  4. Armando PontierLa noche que te fuisteArmando PontierRoberto Goyenechetango
    No match yet
    1979
  5. Malena MuyalaNot in our catalogue
  6. María GrañaNot in our catalogue
  7. Ernesto FrancoNot in our catalogue
  8. -unspecified male-Not in our catalogue
  9. Lidia BordaNot in our catalogue
  10. Orlando VerriNot in our catalogue

One recording

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

Armando Pontier

La noche que te fuisteArmando PontierRoberto Goyenechetango

No couple filmed dancing this recording yet

Recorded the same day

What else Armando Pontier recorded on Jun 5, 1979.

  1. TemblandoArmando PontierRoberto Goyenechevals
  2. No aflojésArmando PontierRoberto Goyenechetango
  3. Preparate pa'l domingoArmando PontierRoberto Goyenechetango

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Cite this

What we don't know yet4 of 5 known

The record label.

Data: recordings, facts and sources

In other catalogues1

tango.info · 00743216335220-1-9

Singers1

Is a1

Is a tango

Duration1

Duration 03:41

Vocal1

Vocal sung

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  1. La noche que te fuisteMiguel CalóRaúl Iriarte

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