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La cachila

Music by Eduardo Arolas. 16 recordings in our catalogue, 1927–2019.
1927: 1 · danced 0 times1931: 1 · danced 0 times1941: 1 · danced 56 times1945: 1 · danced 4 times1952: 2 · danced 86 times1956: 1 · danced 0 times1957: 2 · danced 0 times1958: 1 · danced 2 times1967: 1 · danced 0 times1970: 1 · danced 0 times1979: 1 · danced 1 times1987: 1 · danced 0 times1998: 1 · danced 31 times2019: 1 · danced 0 times
1927’40’50’60’70’80’90’00’102019
records madedanced on film, by the record’s year· our catalogue

1927: 1, 0; 1931: 1, 0; 1941: 1, 56; 1945: 1, 4; 1952: 2, 86; 1956: 1, 0; 1957: 2, 0; 1958: 1, 2; 1967: 1, 0; 1970: 1, 0; 1979: 1, 1; 1987: 1, 0; 1998: 1, 31; 2019: 1, 0

  1. Osvaldo Pugliese’s 1952 version holds 46% of its dancing (83 of 180).

    How we know

    Of the dances to its 16 recordings in our catalogue. Dances count filmed Occasions on TangoTube.

  2. Carlos Di Sarli recorded it in 1941 and 1952. 2 other orchestras recorded it more than once.

    How we know

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

La cachila was composed by Eduardo Arolas.

La cachila is a tango.

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Credit

Music
Eduardo Arolas

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Every recording

16 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 19 more we know of

1920’30’40’50’60’70’80’90’00’10

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

  1. Carlos Di SarliInstrumental · RCA Victor · Mar 6
    56 dances
    1941
  2. Carlos Di SarliInstrumental · Music Hall · Jun 10
    3 dances
    1952
  3. Osvaldo PuglieseInstrumental · Odeon · Sep 24
    4 dances
    1945
  4. Osvaldo PuglieseMost dancedInstrumental · Odeon · Nov 24
    83 dances
    1952
  5. Lucio DemareInstrumental · Disc Jockey
    Not danced on film yet
    1957
  6. Osvaldo FresedoEarliest we holdInstrumental · Odeon · Nov 15
    Not danced on film yet
    1927
  7. Osvaldo FresedoInstrumental · Brunswick
    Not danced on film yet
    1931
  8. Osvaldo FresedoInstrumental · Columbia · Oct 31
    1 dance
    1979
  9. Armando PontierInstrumental · Aug 15
    Not danced on film yet
    1956
  10. José BassoInstrumental
    Not danced on film yet
    1970
  11. Héctor VarelaInstrumental · May 16
    Not danced on film yet
    1967
  12. Horacio SalganInstrumental · Antar-Telefunken (Montevideo) · Jul 17
    Not danced on film yet
    1957
  13. Color Tango (Roberto Alvarez)Instrumental
    31 dances
    1998
  14. Los Astros Del TangoInstrumental · Music Hall
    2 dances
    1958
  15. Los Solistas De D'ArienzoInstrumental · Music Hall
    Not danced on film yet
    1987
  16. Matilde VitulloInstrumental · Jul 1
    Not danced on film yet
    2019
  17. Los ProvincianosNot in our catalogueInstrumental · Feb 71931
  18. Osvaldo FresedoNot in our catalogueInstrumental1932
  19. Roberto CalóNot in our catalogueInstrumental1952
  20. Oscar CastagniaroNot in our catalogueInstrumental1953

Lyrics

Español

Yo también en otros tiempos, que nunca olvido, con mi amor y tu bondad, igual que la cachila, hice mi nido. En tu amor calmé mi sed mi sed y mi locura en tu agua pura y mi sangre con ternura gota a gota te ofrendé. Pero una noche un viento malo, fatal un vendaval sin compasión a nuestro hogar destruyó. Jamás pensé, ¡ay!, jamás creí sufrir así la fatalidad. La congoja y la aflicción en soledad con sus espinas desgarran más. De aquel amor, sol de juventud, que fue un altar hoy sólo quedó esta angustia sin final desolación del corazón. Nunca más mis ojos tristes verán tu aurora y mi pobre corazón, igual que la cachila, de pena llora. Mi tremenda soledad se ahoga con el llanto de mi desvelo desde el día que hasta el cielo el Supremo te llevó.

English · machine translation

Me too in other times, that I never forget, with my love and your kindness, just like the cachila, I made my nest. In your love I quenched my thirst my thirst and my madness in your pure water and my blood with tenderness drop by drop I offered you. But one night an evil, fatal wind a gale without compassion destroyed our home. I never thought, alas, I never thought to suffer fatality. Sorrow and affliction in solitude with their thorns tear more. Of that love, sun of youth, that was an altar today only remains this anguish without end desolation of the heart. Never again will my sad eyes will see your dawn and my poor heart, like the cachila, cries with sorrow. My tremendous loneliness is drowned with the cry of my sleeplessness since the day that up to heaven the Supreme took you.

Danced to it

Music from 1927–2019 · danced on film 1999–2026

19992026
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

1999: 1, 2004: 1, 2006: 1, 2008: 1, 2009: 1, 2010: 2, 2011: 4, 2012: 5, 2013: 9, 2014: 9, 2015: 4, 2016: 6, 2017: 12, 2018: 13, 2019: 9, 2020: 4, 2021: 14, 2022: 21, 2023: 28, 2024: 14, 2025: 16, 2026: 4

Where it is danced

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

  1. Salón El Pial (La Baldosa)Flores
    3 performances
  2. Club Sin RumboVilla Urquiza
    2 performances
  3. Espacio Riobamba (Club Castel)Balvanera
    2 performances
  4. Salón CanningPalermo
    2 performances
  5. Club GricelSan Cristóbal
    1 performance
  6. Cátulo TangoBalvanera
    1 performance

What we don't know yet3 of 4 known

The year it was written.

Data: recordings, facts and sources

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