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Orillas del Plata

Music by Juan Maglio, lyrics by Juan Félix Maglio. 2 recordings in our catalogue, 1928–1935.
1928: 1 · danced 0 times1935: 1 · danced 19 times
1928’301935
records madedanced on film, by the record’s year· our catalogue

1928: 1, 0; 1935: 1, 19

Orillas del Plata was composed by Juan Maglio and Juan Félix Maglio.

The lyrics of Orillas del Plata are by Juan Félix Maglio.

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Credit

Music
Juan Maglio
Lyrics
Juan Félix Maglio

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Every recording

2 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 6 more we know of

1920’30

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

  1. Juan D'ArienzoMost dancedInstrumental · RCA Victor · Dec 31
    19 dances
    1935
  2. Juan MaglioEarliest we holdFeb 3
    Not danced on film yet
    1928
  3. Juan Félix MaglioNot in our catalogueFeb 31928
  4. Juan Félix MaglioNot in our catalogueFeb 61928
  5. Juan Bautista GuidoNot in our catalogueNov 41929
  6. Juan Félix MaglioNot in our catalogueCarlos Viván · Mar 151930
  7. Adolfo PérezNot in our catalogueJul 271949
  8. Miguel VillasboasNot in our catalogue1979

Lyrics

Español

Van pasando solitarias sobre mi vida, las naves rotas de mi dolor; sin hallar un puerto sin hallar amparo sin contemplar un faro que alumbre amor. Y mientras van surcando los negros mares de mis pesares, claman por ti; que abandonaste en la ribera sin primavera de mi vivir. Solas van... por doquier y solas siguen a impulsos de las penas del corazón; no hay un alma que las contemple con las miradas de la pasión; ¿Dónde irán?... no lo sé; tal vez muy lejos a hundirse en las borrascas de la aflicción en esa noche cuando infinito resuene el grito del aguilón. Llevan tu olvido cruel y doloridos se van con el recuerdo fiel de lo que nunca olvidarán. Y así van solitarias y entristecidas mirando el cielo de mi clamor; la impulsan mis desvelos las lleva mi delirio, las conduce el martirio del sinsabor; y no encuentran un puerto ni una ribera que las acoja con caridad; los mares que atraviesan yacen desiertos como los campos de soledad.

English · machine translation

They are passing lonely over my life, the broken ships of my pain without finding a port without finding shelter without beholding a lighthouse to light up love. And as they sail the black seas of my sorrows they cry out for you; that you abandoned on the shore without spring of my life. Alone they go... everywhere and alone they go on at the impulse of the sorrows of the heart; there is no soul to behold them with the glances of passion; Where will they go... I don't know; perhaps far away to sink in the squalls of affliction in that night when infinite resound the cry of the eagle. They carry your cruel oblivion and in pain they leave with the faithful memory of what they will never forget. And so they go lonely and saddened looking at the sky of my clamor; they are driven by my sleeplessness they are driven by my delirium, they are driven by the martyrdom of the lack of taste; and they do not find a port nor a shore that welcomes them with charity; the seas they cross lie deserted like the fields of loneliness.

Danced to it

Music from 1928–1935 · danced on film 2010–2025

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

2010: 1, 2015: 1, 2017: 3, 2019: 1, 2021: 2, 2024: 1, 2025: 1

What we don't know yet3 of 4 known

The year it was written.

Data: recordings, facts and sources

Composer2

Composed by Juan Maglio

Sources disagree · 2

Composed by Juan Félix Maglio

Sources disagree

In other catalogues2

tango.info · T0370022017

Single source

MusicBrainz · 51985a16-4117-4f10-bd01-0173b28cc73csource

Single source

Lyricist1

Lyrics by Juan Félix Maglio

Single source

Listen

  1. Orillas del PlataJuan Maglio · no clip yet1928
  2. Orillas del PlataJuan D'Arienzo1935

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