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El cantor de Buenos Aires

Music by Juan Carlos Cobián. 4 recordings in our catalogue, 1955–2002.
1955: 1 · danced 1 times1968: 1 · danced 2 times2000: 1 · danced 0 times2002: 1 · danced 0 times
1955’60’70’80’902002
records madedanced on film, by the record’s year· our catalogue

1955: 1, 1; 1968: 1, 2; 2000: 1, 0; 2002: 1, 0

  1. Orquesta El Arranque recorded it in 2000 and 2002.

    How we know

    Takes in our catalogue by the same orchestra in different years; the canon’s first orchestra is named.

Credit

Music
Juan Carlos Cobián

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Every recording

4 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube

1950’60’70’80’90’00

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

  1. Aníbal TroiloEarliest we holdCarlos Olmedo · TK
    1 dance
    1955
  2. Orquesta El ArranqueAriel Ardit · Sep 1
    Not danced on film yet
    2000
  3. Orquesta El ArranqueAriel Ardit · Oct 30
    Not danced on film yet
    2002
  4. Roberto GoyenecheMost dancedInstrumental · Mar 14
    2 dances
    1968

Lyrics

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Voy mirando atrás y al comprobar que el tiempo nuevo se llevó la franja, el taco militar... Yo voy notando aquí en la zurda que el corazón me hace una burla. Nada duele tanto como ver desenrollar del carretel el hilo.de la juventud. Adiós glicinas, emparrados y malvones... Todo, todo ya se fue... Dónde estarán los puntos del aquel, en el que yo cantaba mi primer canción. Y aquellos patios donde pronto conquisté aplausos tauras, los primeros que escuché. Dónde estarán Traverso, el Cordobés y el Noy, el Pardo Augusto, Flores y el Morocho Aldao. Así empezó mi vuelo de zorzal... Los guapos del Abasto rimaron mi canción. Soy aquel cantor del arrabal, jilguero criollo que pulsó la humilde musa de percal. Me acuerdo de hace veinte abriles, de aquellos bailes a candiles... Cuando en una oreja iba colgao como un hachazo en el costao la mancha roja de un clavel. Muchachos, todo lo ha llevado el almanaque. Todo, todo ya se fue.

English · machine translation

I look back and see that the new time that the new time has taken away the stripe, the military heel... I'm noticing here in my left hand that my heart makes a mockery of me. Nothing hurts as much as seeing unwinding from the spool the thread of youth. Farewell wisteria, bower and mallow... Everything, everything is gone... Where are the dots of that bowling alley where I sang my first song. And those patios where I soon conquered taura applause, the first I heard. Where will Traverso, el Cordobés and el Noy be? Pardo Augusto, Flores and Morocho Aldao. That's how my thrush flight began... The handsome men of Abasto rhymed my song. I am that singer of the suburbs, Creole goldfinch that pulsed the humble muse of calico. I remember twenty years ago, of those candlelight dances... When in one ear I was hanging like an axe on the coast the red stain of a carnation. Boys, the almanac has taken everything away. Everything, everything is gone.

What we don't know yet3 of 4 known

The year it was written.

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