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Volvió una noche · Hugo Diaz · 1975

Music by Carlos Gardel, lyrics by Alfredo Le Pera. 5 recordings in our catalogue, 1935–1975.
1935: 1 · danced 0 times1946: 1 · danced 1 times1961: 1 · danced 0 times1969: 1 · danced 0 times1975: 1 · danced 5 times
1935’40’50’60’701975
records madedanced on film, by the record’s year· our catalogue

1935: 1, 0; 1946: 1, 1; 1961: 1, 0; 1969: 1, 0; 1975: 1, 5

Credit

Music
Carlos Gardel
Lyrics
Alfredo Le Pera

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Every recording

5 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 12 more we know of

1930’40’50’60’70

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

  1. Miguel CalóInstrumental · Odeon · Sep 15
    Not danced on film yet
    1961
  2. Francisco CanaroArgentino Ledesma · Odeon · Nov 27
    Not danced on film yet
    1969
  3. Francisco LomutoEarliest we holdJorge Omar · RCA Victor · Jul 19
    Not danced on film yet
    1935
  4. Hugo DiazMost danced
    5 dances
    1975
  5. Francisco FiorentinoMar 20
    1 dance
    1946
  6. Nelly OmarNot in our catalogue1934
  7. Terig TucciNot in our catalogueCarlos Gardel · Mar 201935
  8. Astor PiazzollaNot in our catalogueFrancisco Fiorentino · Mar 201946
  9. Leopoldo FedericoNot in our catalogueJulio Sosa · Dec 61962
  10. Carlos GardelNot in our catalogue
  11. Rubén JuárezNot in our catalogue
  12. Jorge FalcónNot in our catalogue
  13. Malena MuyalaNot in our catalogue
  14. Nelly OmarNot in our catalogue
  15. Roberto GoyenecheNot in our catalogue
  16. Ernesto Baffa, Osvaldo BerlingieriNot in our catalogueRoberto Goyeneche
  17. -unspecified orchestra-Not in our catalogueJorge Sareli

Lyrics

Español

Volvió una noche, no la esperaba, había en su rostro tanta ansiedad que tuve pena de recordarle lo que he sufrido con su impiedad. Me dijo humilde: 'Si me perdonas, el tiempo viejo otra vez vendrá. La primavera es nuestra vida, verás que todo nos sonreirá' Mentira, mentira, yo quise decirle, las horas que pasan ya no vuelven más. Y así mi cariño al tuyo enlazado es sólo una mueca del viejo pasado que ya no se puede resucitar. Callé mi amargura y tuve piedad. Sus ojos azules, muy grandes se abrieron, mi pena inaudita pronto comprendieron y con una mueca de mujer vencida me dijo: 'Es la vida'. Y no la vi más. Volvió esa noche, nunca la olvido, con la mirada triste y sin luz. Y tuve miedo de aquel espectro que fue locura en mi juventud. Se fue en silencio, sin un reproche, busqué un espejo y me quise mirar. Había en mi frente tantos inviernos que también ella tuvo piedad.

English · machine translation

She came back one night, I wasn't expecting her, there was so much anxiety in her face that I was sorry to remind her what I have suffered with her impiety. She said to me humbly: 'If you forgive me, the old time will come again. Spring is our life, you will see that everything will smile on us'. Lie, lie, I wanted to tell him, the hours that pass will never come again. And so my affection to yours linked is only a grimace of the old past that can no longer be resurrected. I silenced my bitterness and had pity. Her blue eyes, very large opened, my unheard-of sorrow they soon understood and with a grimace of a defeated woman she said to me: 'It's life'. And I saw her no more. She returned that night, I never forget her, with a sad look and without light. And I was afraid of that specter that was madness in my youth. He left in silence, without a reproach, I looked for a mirror and I wanted to look at myself. There were so many winters on my forehead that she also had pity.

Danced to it

Music from 1975 · danced on film 2018–2022

20182022
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

2018: 1, 2022: 1

From TangoTube's videos · our data

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Videos danced in

What we don't know yet3 of 5 known

The day it was recorded, the record label.

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  1. Volvió una nocheFrancisco Lomuto · Jorge Omar · no clip yet1935

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