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Alguien

Music by Héctor Stamponi. 2 recordings in our catalogue, 1956–1956.

Alguien was composed by Héctor Stamponi.††

Credit

Music
Héctor Stamponi

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Every recording

2 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube

1950

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

  1. Rodolfo BiagiMost dancedHugo Duval · Odeon · Mar 24
    28 dances
    1956
  2. Enrique FranciniEarliest we holdAlberto Podestá · RCA Victor · Jan 19
    16 dances
    1956

Lyrics

Español

¿De sal?... ¿de miel?... ¿de qué? mi boca se impregnó, tentada por tus besos. ¿De sal?... ¿de miel?... ¡no sé!, lo nuestro se quebró, ¡fetiche, al fin, de yeso! Duele pensar que Dios nos llamará, que el tiempo se nos va... ¡cortón, igual que un rezo! ¡Amar... sufrir... rodar; no hallar el buen amor y hastiarse de esperar! La calle me dio tu vida, ¡pasabas sola y herida!... ¡No sé por qué te amé... no sé por qué!; acaso, porque en alguien busqué encontrarme... ¡En alguien... que me quisiera! ¡En alguien... que me creyera! ¡Hubo una esquina, tú pasabas con tu mal; te quise y fue mi amor... fatal! Ya ves, recién... tú y yo rasgamos ese tul tan triste como vano. Ya ves, recién voló la mariposa azul del sueño más cercano. Fue torpe y cruel la juventud tirar, y en el ocaso ya, buscar dos blancas manos. ¡Vivir... soñar... sentir el barro a nuestros pies, y en él los pies hundir!

English · machine translation

Of salt... of honey... of what? my mouth was impregnated, tempted by your kisses. Salt? Honey? I don't know! our thing broke, a plaster cast at last! It hurts to think that God will call us, that time is running out... Short, just like a prayer! To love... to suffer... to roll away; not finding good love and get tired of waiting! The street gave me your life, you were alone and wounded!... I don't know why I loved you, I don't know why! perhaps because I sought to find myself in someone... In someone... who loved me! In someone... who believed me! There was a corner, you were passing by with your evil; I loved you and it was my love... fatal! You see, just now... you and I tore that tulle as sad as vain. You see, just now flew the blue butterfly of the nearest dream. It was clumsy and cruel youth to throw away, and in the sunset already, to look for two white hands. To live... to dream... to feel... to feel the mud at our feet, and in it sink our feet!

Danced to it

Music from 1956 · danced on film 2010–2025

20102025
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

2010: 1, 2011: 1, 2012: 1, 2013: 4, 2015: 4, 2016: 4, 2017: 1, 2018: 1, 2019: 5, 2020: 1, 2021: 1, 2022: 3, 2023: 1, 2025: 1

Where it is danced

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

  1. Salón CanningPalermo
    1 performance

What we don't know yet3 of 4 known

The year it was written.

Data: recordings, facts and sources

Composer1

Composed by Héctor Stamponi

Supported · 2

In other catalogues2

tango.info · T0370353095

Single source

TodoTango · tema/1402

Single source

Listen

  1. AlguienEnrique Francini · Alberto Podestá1956
  2. AlguienRodolfo Biagi · Hugo Duval1956

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