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Mozo guapo

Music by Ricardo Tanturi. 1 recordings in our catalogue, 1941–1941.

Mozo guapo was composed by Ricardo Tanturi.††

Credit

Music
Ricardo Tanturi

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Every recording

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

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

  1. Ricardo TanturiEarliest we holdMost dancedAlberto Castillo · RCA Victor · Feb 19
    167 dances
    1941
  2. Juanjo DomínguezNot in our catalogueInstrumental
  3. Miguel VillasboasNot in our catalogueInstrumental

Lyrics

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Con un pucho prepotente acariciando sus labios, el chambergo levantado, muy porteño el caminar; la mirada sobradora, negra y revuelta melena, mozo guapo del suburbio con su pinta sin igual. Campeón entre las pebetas por su verbo tan florido, terror entre los malevos por su puñal cimbreador; varón de los empedrados, conocido en los balcones derecho sin vuelta de hoja con alma de . Cuando la noche rodea las callecitas del barrio cruza la estampa del guapo, como un rey del arrabal; pronto una sombra se acera, hay un temblor en los labios y un beso vibra en el alma del de aquel lugar.

English · machine translation

With an overbearing fag caressing his lips, his chamfer lifted, very porteño in his walk; the sober look, black and disheveled hair, handsome suburban boy with his peerless look. Champion among the pebetas for his flowery words, terror among the malevos for his cresting dagger; man of the cobblestones, known on the balconies straight without turning a leaf with the soul of a payador. When the night surrounds the little streets of the neighborhood crosses the stamp of the handsome, like a king of the suburb; soon a shadow is on the sidewalk, there's a tremor on the lips and a kiss vibrates in the soul of the taita of that place.

Danced to it

Music from 1941 · danced on film 2006–2026

20062026
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

2006: 1, 2007: 1, 2008: 1, 2009: 1, 2010: 1, 2011: 1, 2012: 8, 2013: 1, 2014: 5, 2015: 5, 2016: 9, 2017: 15, 2018: 7, 2019: 7, 2020: 5, 2021: 3, 2022: 7, 2023: 8, 2024: 6, 2025: 7, 2026: 8

Where it is danced

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

  1. Salón CanningPalermo
    3 performances
  2. Sociedad Friulana de Buenos AiresVilla Devoto
    1 performance
  3. 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 Ricardo Tanturi

Supported · 2

In other catalogues3

tango.info · T0370166996

Single source

MusicBrainz · 79f69e98-ccbe-48ac-8961-dd62753490adsource

Single source

TodoTango · tema/1902

Single source

Listen

  1. Mozo guapoRicardo Tanturi · Alberto Castillo1941

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