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Nunca tuvo novio · Mariano Mores · 1986

Mariano Morestango
Music by Agustín Bardi, lyrics by Enrique Cadícamo. 9 recordings in our catalogue, 1930–1986.

Who recorded it

Every version9

Earliest we hold: Típica Victor, 1930

  1. Pedro LaurenzAlberto Podestá1943
  2. Lucio Demare1957
  3. Típica VictorCarlos Lafuente1930
  4. Orquesta Francini-PontierRoberto Rufino1947
  5. Troilo-Grela1962
  6. José De Alto1959

Pinned at 1986 · Revival 1985–1999 · Mariano Mores recordings indexed 1951–1986

The song

The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.

9 orchestras recorded it

56 Dances filmed to it

Who wrote it

Music
Agustín Bardi
Words
Enrique Cadícamo
Written
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First played
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Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Lyrics

Español

Pobre solterona te has quedado sin ilusión, sin fe... Tu corazón de angustias se ha enfermado, puesta de sol es hoy tu vida trunca. Sigues como entonces, releyendo el novelón sentimental, en el que una niña aguarda en vano consumida por un mal de amor. En la soledad de tu pieza de soltera está el dolor. Triste realidad es el fin de tu jornada sin amor... Lloras y al llorar van las lágrimas temblando tu emoción; en las hojas de tu viejo novelón te ves sin fuerza palpitar. Deja de llorar por el príncipe soñado que no fue junto a ti a volcar el rimero melodioso de su voz. Tras el ventanal, mientras pega la llovizna en el cristal con tus ojos más nublados de dolor soñás un paisaje de amor. Nunca tuvo novio, ¡pobrecita! ¿Por qué el amor no fue a su jardin humilde de muchacha a reanimar las flores de sus años?. ¡Yo, con mi montón de desengaños igual que vos, vivo sin luz, sin una caricia venturosa que haga olvidar mi cruz!

English · machine translation

Poor old maid you have been left without illusion, without faith... Your heart of anguish has become sick, your life is today a sunset, your life truncated. You go on as then, rereading the sentimental novel, in which a girl waits in vain. consumed by a love sickness. In the solitude of your maiden room is the pain. Sad reality is the end of your journey without love... You cry and as you cry the tears are trembling your emotion; on the pages of your old novel you see yourself without strength palpitating. Stop crying for the dreamed prince who did not go with you to pour out the melodious rhyme of his voice. Behind the window, while the drizzle hits the glass with your eyes more clouded with pain you dream a landscape of love. She never had a boyfriend, poor thing! Why didn't love go to her humble garden as a girl to revive the flowers of her years? I, with my heap of disappointments like you, I live without light, without a fortunate caress to make me forget my cross!

Every version

Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone

The catalogue holds 9 recordings of this song by 9 orchestras, 1930 to 1986.
1930’40’50’60’70’80
Recordings of Nunca tuvo novio · Mariano Mores · 1986 by year, taller the more they are danced · 9 of 9 recordings carry a year · read Nov 2, 2026

9 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 29 more we know of

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

The leader is Pedro Laurenz, 1943, with 70% of the 56 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. Pedro LaurenzMost dancedNunca tuvo novioPedro LaurenzAlberto PodestátangoRCA Victor
    39 dances · 70%
    1943
  2. Típica VictorEarliest we holdNunca tuvo novioTípica VictorCarlos LafuentetangoRCA Victor
    13 dances · 23%
    1930
  3. Lucio DemareNunca tuvo novioLucio DemaretangoDisc Jockey
    2 dances · 4%
    1957
  4. Troilo-GrelaNunca tuvo novioTroilo-GrelatangoRCA Victor
    2 dances · 4%
    1962
  5. Orquesta Francini-PontierNunca tuvo novioOrquesta Francini-PontierRoberto Rufinotango
    No match yet
    1947
  6. Los Astros del TangoNunca tuvo novioLos Astros del TangotangoMusic Hall
    No match yet
    1958
  7. José De AltoNunca tuvo novioJosé De Altotango
    No match yet
    1959
  8. Roberto GoyenecheNunca tuvo novioRoberto Goyenechesungtango
    No match yet
    1980
  9. Mariano MoresNunca tuvo novioMariano Morestango
    No match yet
    1986
  10. -unspecified guitars-Not in our catalogueAgustín Magaldi1930
  11. -unspecified orchestra-Not in our catalogueLibertad Lamarque · Nov 61930
  12. Enrique Francini, Armando PontierNot in our catalogueRoberto Rufino · Sep 241947
  13. Alberto Oscar GentileNot in our catalogue1950
  14. Cuarteto Troilo-GrelaNot in our catalogue1955
  15. -unspecified guitars-Not in our catalogueAlberto Margal1955
  16. Juan Sánchez GorioNot in our catalogueOsvaldo Bazán · Jun 281956
  17. Leo LipeskerNot in our catalogueMay 181961
  18. Leopoldo FedericoNot in our catalogueJulio Sosa · Oct 171963
  19. Lucio DemareNot in our catalogueJul 301968
  20. Fulvio SalamancaNot in our catalogue1969

One recording

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Mariano Mores

Nunca tuvo novioMariano Morestango

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  1. Nunca tuvo novioTípica VictorCarlos Lafuente

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