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A quién le puede importar

Music by Mariano Mores, lyrics by Enrique Cadícamo. 3 recordings in our catalogue, 1939–1945.
1939: 1 · danced 0 times1940: 1 · danced 1 times1945: 1 · danced 30 times
1939’401945
records madedanced on film, by the record’s year· our catalogue

1939: 1, 0; 1940: 1, 1; 1945: 1, 30

A quién le puede importar was composed by Mariano Mores.†† The lyrics of A quién le puede importar are by Enrique Cadícamo.†

Credit

Music
Mariano Mores
Lyrics
Enrique Cadícamo

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Every recording

3 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 2 more we know of

1930’40

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

  1. Ángel D'AgostinoMost dancedÁngel Vargas · RCA Victor · Aug 7
    30 dances
    1945
  2. Francisco CanaroErnesto Famá · Odeon · Jan 26
    1 dance
    1940
  3. Francisco LomutoEarliest we holdFernando Díaz · RCA Victor · Dec 19
    Not danced on film yet
    1939
  4. Raúl Miguel GarelloNot in our catalogueFloreal Ruíz1973
  5. Floreal RuízNot in our catalogue

Lyrics

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Gime, bandoneón, grave y rezongón en la nocturna verbena. En mi corazón tu gangoso son hace más honda mi pena. Con tu viruta sentimental vas enredando mi viejo mal, un viejo mal que me ha dejado enamorado, arrinconado, y olvidado para siempre. Sin una sola caricia que mi tristeza mitigue su risa mala me persigue y me persigue, mientras sigue tu responso, ¡bandoneón! A quién le puede importar ¡ bandoneón! que he sido bueno. A quién le puede importar el novelón del mal ajeno. Si a ella que fue mi querer no le importó mi abatimiento. A quién le puede importar ¡ bandoneón! mi sufrimiento. Suena menos gris tango, para mí. Sé que jamás la encontraré. Te saldré a bailar para disfrazar el drama que llevo adentro. En otros brazos me engañaré, en otras bocas me aturdiré aunque sus ojos y su risa me persigan y me sigan y me digan que la quiero. Iré a borrar el fantasma de aquel amor siempre atento, así termina este lamento y el tormento de este cruento sufrimiento... ¡Bandoneón !

English · machine translation

Gime, bandoneon, grave and rezongón in the nightly verbena. In my heart your gangly sound deepens my sorrow. With your sentimental chip you are tangling my old evil, an old evil that has left me in love, cornered, and forgotten forever. Without a single caress to mitigate my sadness his evil laughter haunts me and haunts me, while it follows your response, bandoneon! Who can care bandoneon! that I've been good. Who can care the soap opera of someone else's evil. If she who was my love did not care about my despondency. Who could care my suffering. It sounds less gray tango, for me. I know I'll never find it. I'll go out dancing for you to disguise the drama I carry inside. In other arms I'll deceive myself, in other mouths I'll be dazed though your eyes and your laughter chase me and follow me and tell me that I love her. I will go to erase the ghost of that ever-attentive love, thus ends this lament and the torment of this bloody suffering... Bandoneon !

Danced to it

Music from 1939–1945 · danced on film 2010–2026

20102026
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

2010: 1, 2011: 2, 2013: 1, 2015: 1, 2016: 2, 2018: 2, 2019: 2, 2020: 4, 2021: 2, 2022: 3, 2023: 7, 2024: 4, 2025: 2, 2026: 3

Where it is danced

The places our videos show it danced, by performances filmed there.

  1. Club GricelSan Cristóbal
    1 performance
  2. Club Social y Deportivo Glorias ArgentinasMataderos
    1 performance
  3. Espacio Riobamba (Club Castel)Balvanera
    1 performance
  4. Salón CanningPalermo
    1 performance
  5. Sunderland ClubVilla Urquiza
    1 performance

What we don't know yet3 of 4 known

The year it was written.

Data: recordings, facts and sources

Composer1

Composed by Mariano Mores

Supported · 2

In other catalogues2

tango.info · T0370073134

Single source

TodoTango · tema/325

Single source

Lyricist1

Lyrics by Enrique Cadícamo

Single source

Listen

  1. A quién le puede importarFrancisco Lomuto · Fernando Díaz1939
  2. A quién le puede importarFrancisco Canaro · Ernesto Famá1940
  3. A quién le puede importarÁngel D'Agostino · Ángel Vargas1945

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