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Por una cabeza · Hugo Diaz · 1975

Hugo Diazsinger unknowntango
Music by Carlos Gardel, lyrics by Alfredo Le Pera. 6 recordings in our catalogue, 1935–2006.

Pinned at 1975 · Nuevo 1955–1984 · Hugo Diaz recordings indexed 1972–1975

The song

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6 orchestras recorded it

13 Dances filmed to it

Who wrote it

Music
Carlos Gardel
Words
Alfredo Le Pera
Written
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Lyrics

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Por una cabeza de un noble potrillo que justo en la raya afloja al llegar, y que al regresar parece decir: No olvidés, hermano, vos sabés, no hay que jugar. Por una cabeza, de un día de aquella coqueta y burlona mujer, que al jurar sonriendo el amor que está mintiendo, quema en una hoguera todo mi querer. Por una cabeza, todas las locuras. Su boca que besa, borra la tristeza, calma la amargura. Por una cabeza, si ella me olvida qué importa perderme mil veces la vida, para qué vivir. Cuántos desengaños, por una cabeza. Yo juré mil veces, no vuelvo a insistir. Pero si un mirar me hiere al pasar, sus labios de fuego otra vez quiero besar. Basta de carreras, se acabó la timba. ¡Un final reñido ya no vuelvo a ver! Pero si algún pingo llega a ser fija el domingo, yo me juego entero. ¡Qué le voy a hacer..!

English · machine translation

For a head of a noble colt that right at the line loosens on arrival, and when returning seems to say: Don't forget, brother, you know, don't play. For a head, one day's metejon of that flirtatious and mocking woman who, while swearing smiling the love she's lying, burns in a bonfire all my love. For a head, all the follies. Her kissing mouth erases sadness, soothes bitterness. For a head, if she forgets me what does it matter to lose me a thousand times life, why live. How many disappointments, for one head. I swore a thousand times, I will not insist again. But if a glance wounds me as I pass by, her fiery lips I want to kiss again. No more running, the game is over. A close finish I'll never see again! But if any pingo becomes fixed on Sunday, I'll bet the whole thing. What can I do!

Every version

Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone

The catalogue holds 6 recordings of this song by 6 orchestras, 1935 to 2006.
1930’40’50’60’70’80’90’00
Recordings of Por una cabeza · Hugo Diaz · 1975 by year, taller the more they are danced · 6 of 6 recordings carry a year · read Nov 1, 2026

6 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 17 more we know of

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

  1. Miguel CalóPor una cabezaMiguel CalóCarlos BarbétangoOdeon
    No match yet
    1953
  2. Francisco CanaroPor una cabezaFrancisco CanaroArgentino LedesmatangoOdeon
    No match yet
    1969
  3. Francisco LomutoEarliest we holdPor una cabezaFrancisco LomutoJorge OmartangoRCA Victor
    3 dances
    1935
  4. Hugo DiazMost dancedPor una cabezaHugo Diazsinger unknowntango
    10 dances
    1975
  5. Atilio StamponePor una cabezaAtilio StamponeRoberto Goyenechetango
    No match yet
    1972
  6. Orquesta Típica ImperialPor una cabezaOrquesta Típica ImperialJulio César Fernántango
    No match yet
    2006
  7. Terig TucciNot in our catalogueCarlos Gardel · Mar 191935
  8. Donato RacciattiNot in our catalogueCarlos Roldán1960
  9. Alfredo De AngelisNot in our catalogueCarlos Aguirre · Sep 241976
  10. QuinTangoNot in our catalogue1998
  11. Orquesta Matos RodríguezNot in our catalogueDaniel Cortés2005
  12. Emilio RamilNot in our catalogue
  13. Alberto Di PauloNot in our catalogueJorge Valdez
  14. Donato RacciattiNot in our catalogue
  15. Esteban MorgadoNot in our catalogue-unspecified male-, -choir-
  16. -unspecified female-Not in our catalogue
  17. Juanjo DomínguezNot in our catalogue
  18. Trio PantangoNot in our catalogue
  19. Conjunto Los cosos de al laoNot in our catalogue
  20. Muzet RoyalNot in our catalogueCaio Rodríguez

One recording

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Hugo Diaz

Por una cabezaHugo Diazsinger unknowntango

Couples filmed dancing this recording · 10 Performances

Danced to it

Music from 1975 · danced on film 2013–2024

20132024
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

2013: 1, 2024: 3

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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. 1Milonga del 83Juan D'Arienzo, 1940 · danced together in 2 Performances
  2. 2RecuerdoOsvaldo Pugliese, 1944 · danced together in 2 Performances

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  1. Por una cabezaFrancisco LomutoJorge Omar

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