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Solo de bandoneón

Music by Enrique Cadícamo, lyrics by Enrique Cadícamo. 1 recordings in our catalogue, 1952–1952.

Who recorded it

Every version1

Earliest we hold: Osvaldo Fresedo, 1952

  1. Osvaldo FresedoHéctor Pacheco1952

Versions of Solo de bandoneón recorded 1952

Solo de bandoneón was composed by Enrique Cadícamo.†† The lyrics of Solo de bandoneón are by Enrique Cadícamo.†

The song

The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.

1 orchestra recorded it

12 Dances filmed to it

Who wrote it

Music
Enrique Cadícamo
Words
Enrique Cadícamo
Written
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First played
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Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Lyrics

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Desde una pieza fulera de un fueye se escucha su voz lastimera. Sus notas, son notas de un tema de tango. De un tango que late como un corazón. El barrio duerme tranquilo y un hombre en el fueye traduce su pena y se oye en la noche tan tibia y serena un 'solo' muy triste de su bandoneón. (recitado) Interpreto tu tristeza porque yo sufrí por una... Al oírte me trabaja tu fraseo ... ¡Scruchante de la noche...! Con un rayo de la luna vos hacés una ganzúa y te entrás al corazón... (cantado) Por ella sufro por ella bebo todo le he dado nada le debo. Y hoy, bandoneón, la busco en vano yo no sé que hacer, ¡hermano! si matarla o perdonar. La pena que arrastra el fueye del fondo del alma le sube a los ojos. Y solo en su pieza su lírico enojo se funde en un tango de gris emoción... Y al contemplar un retrato su cuarto bohemio de sombras, se viste, por eso es que suena más hondo y más triste el fúnebre acento de su bandoneón.

English · machine translation

From an ugly little room you can hear the mournful voice of a bandoneón. Its notes are the notes of a tango theme. Of a tango that beats like a heart. The neighborhood sleeps peacefully and a man at the bellows translates his sorrow and you hear in the night so mild and serene a very sad solo from his bandoneón. (recited) I read your sadness because I suffered over a woman too... Hearing you, that swaggering phrasing of yours works on me... Burglar of the night...! With a ray of the moon you make yourself a picklock and let yourself into the heart... (sung) For her I suffer for her I drink I've given her everything I owe her nothing. And today, bandoneón, I look for her in vain I don't know what to do, brother! whether to kill her or forgive her. The sorrow the bellows drag out rises from the bottom of his soul up to his eyes. And alone in his room his lyrical anger melts into a tango of grey feeling... And as he looks at a photograph his bohemian room dresses itself in shadows, and that's why the funereal note of his bandoneón sounds deeper and sadder.

Every version

Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone

The catalogue holds 1 recordings of this song by 1 orchestras, 1952 to 1952.

1 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube

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  1. Osvaldo FresedoEarliest we holdMost dancedSolo de bandoneónOsvaldo FresedoHéctor PachecotangoColumbia
    12 dances
    1952
All recordings of Solo de bandoneón

One recording

A dated take, with its sound and the couples dancing it.

Osvaldo Fresedo

Solo de bandoneónOsvaldo FresedoHéctor PachecotangoColumbia

Couples filmed dancing this recording · 6 Performances

Natsuki Nishihara3:54

In their words

  • Tengo otro que capaz está más lindo, pero este me gusta porque, en el medio del tema, mi papá tiene un solo de bandoneón.

    Fabián Belmonte · CHHA1610AM - interview a "Roxana & Fabián Belmonte"

    open at 18:40
  • Y no solo el bandoneón: en aquellos tiempos se tocaban los dos géneros, se hacía típica y jazz.

    Roberto Álvarez · ROBERTO ÁLVAREZ Tengo una pregunta para vos (by Pepa Palazón) with ENGLISH subtitles

    open at 5:48

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What we don't know yet3 of 4 known

The year it was written.

Data: recordings, facts and sources

Composer1

Composed by Enrique Cadícamo

In other catalogues2

tango.info · T0370295832

TodoTango · tema/991

Lyricist1

Lyrics by Enrique Cadícamo

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  1. Solo de bandoneónOsvaldo FresedoHéctor PachecotangoColumbia

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