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“Qué bien te queda” by Osvaldo Pugliese y su Orquesta Típica with Roberto Chanel in vocals, 1943 (with English translation of the lyrics).

“Qué bien te queda” by Osvaldo Pugliese y su Orquesta Típica with Roberto Chanel in vocals, 1943 (with English translation of the lyrics).

Vinyl record of the Argentine Tango

Qué bien te queda (Cómo has cambiado)

Music: Vicente Salerno. Lyrics: Juan Mazaroni.

Brother, modernism has defeated you,
your figure from yesterday also changed,
It only remains in your melodious bars
the past heart to heart.

You already walked away from the suburb that saw you
under the throbbing light of a lantern,
that outlined your whimsical figure
dancing to the chords, from a little organ to the beat.

How good it fits you, how much you have changed,
and in this framework of distinction,
you are entangling the hearts
between laments of a bandoneon.

The skyscrapers full of wonder
wearing tuxedo, they see you coming.

How good it looks for you, Argentine Tango,
soul song, immortal song…

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  • Now they started a new project that addresses the dancers and the website is https://en.mytango.online
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“Viva el Tango” by Raúl Garello y su Orquesta Típica with Roberto Goyeneche in vocals, 1991 (with English translation of the lyrics).

“Viva el Tango” by Raúl Garello y su Orquesta Típica with Roberto Goyeneche in vocals, 1991 (with English translation of the lyrics).

Roberto Goyeneche, Astor Piazzolla & Horacio Ferrer. Argentine Tango music and poetry.

Viva el Tango

Music: Raúl Garello. Lyrics: Horacio Ferrer

English translation:

So you don’t like Gotán (Tango), che?
I’m sorry, too bad for you.

Don Campoamor already announce it:
“Everything is according to the glass…”

Our Tango as the “laurel
that we knew how to achieve” (verse from Argentine anthem),
pucha! how good!, how cute is it
what I feel here.

Long live Tango, long live Tango!
brave mix of passion and thought,
Long live tango, which is played
with modesty of laughter at a burial.

Long live Tango, which is a fresco
of madonas, casanovas and cornelios (cuckolds),
human comedy that to the bad and the good,
the cute and ugly
scribbled it from its real look.

Do you see eternity going
with the phrasing of a sensual Tango?:
taria ta tara ta
taria ta tara ta,
classical music of today.

With the ritual dimmed light
and the bar chairs turned upside down,
in two by four drink
slowly and get out
fatiguing sidewalks.
Two, that by disappearing
at dawn
they make love tangos.

So you don’t like Gotán, che?
that it’s a crybaby and is from yesterday? so what?
you have to know if the one who suffered
is not the one who laughs afterwards.

Not a Gotán knew that wise man
who died of so much knowledge
and to the drawer (coffin) went without knowing
that his wife did not love him.

Long live Tango, long live Tango!
with its rhythm of blows against the wind,
Long live the Tango that is danced
with sex in poetic suspense.

Long live Tango, who is a friend
for every loneliness and every encounter,
Long live Tango, all Tango,
God bless our Tango every day.

“Sur, Qué noche, Percal, La Yumba,
Silbando, Adiós Nonino, El choclo,
Divina, El Marne, Uno, El andariego,
Milonguita, Vida mía, A fuego lento,
El motivo, Bahía Blanca, La bordona,
Flores negras, Che papusa, La Tablada,
Mala junta, Suerte loca, La mariposa,
Volver.”

For all the Tango
goes this toast of my soul
and with the Río de la Plata
I get drunk with emotion.

And long live Tango
and this love with which I sing it,
because I, I am Tango,
Long live Tango, and long live me!

Original en castellano:

¿Que el Gotán no le gusta, che?
Siento mucho, peor pa’ usted.
Ya lo batió don Campoamor:
“Todo es según el cristal…”

Tango nuestro como el laurel
que supiéramos conseguir,
pucha ¡qué bien!, qué lindo es
esto que aquí siento yo.

Viva el Tango, ¡viva el Tango!
mezcla brava de pasión y pensamiento,
viva el tango, que se toca
con pudor de carcajada en un entierro.

Viva el Tango, que es un fresco
de madonas, casanovas y cornelios,
comedia humana que a lo malo y a lo bueno,
que a lo lindo y a lo feo
lo escrachó del natural.

¿Ves que va la eternidad
al frasear de un tanguito sensual?:
taria ta tara ta
taria ta tara ta,
música clásica de hoy.

Con la media luz ritual
y las sillas del bar dadas vuelta,
en dos por cuatro beber
lerdamente y salir
fatigando veredas.
Dos, que al desaparecer
por el amanecer
hacen tangos de amor.

¿Que el Gotán no le gusta, che?
que es llorón y es de ayer ¿y qué?
hay que saber si el que penó
no es el que ríe después.

Ni un Gotán supo el sabio aquel
que de tanto saber murió
y pa’l cajón fue sin saber
que su mujer no lo amó.

Viva el Tango, ¡viva el Tango !
con su ritmo de trompadas contra el viento,
viva el Tango que se baila
con el sexo en un poético suspenso.

Viva el Tango, que es compinche
para cada soledad y cada encuentro,
viva el Tango, todo el Tango,
Dios bendiga cada día el Tango nuestro.

Sur, Qué noche, Percal, La Yumba,
Silbando, Adiós Nonino, El choclo,
Divina, El Marne, Uno, El andariego,
Milonguita, Vida mía, A fuego lento,
El motivo, Bahía Blanca, La bordona,
Flores negras, Che papusa, La Tablada,
Mala junta, Suerte loca, La mariposa,
Volver.

Por todo el Tango
va este brindis de mi alma
y con el Río de la Plata
me emborracho de emoción.

Y viva el Tango
y este amor con que lo canto,
porque yo, yo soy el Tango,
¡viva el Tango, y viva yo!

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“Tres amigos” by Anibal Troilo y su Orquesta Tipica with Alberto Marino in vocals, 1944 (English translation of the lyrics).

“Tres amigos” by Anibal Troilo y su Orquesta Tipica with Alberto Marino in vocals, 1944 (English translation of the lyrics).

Néstor Pellicciaro, Blas Catrenau and Marcelo Solís at Milonga Parakultural in Buenos Aires.

Tres amigos

Music and lyrics: Enrique Cadícamo.

De mis páginas vividas, siempre llevo un gran recuerdo
mi emoción no las olvida, pasa el tiempo y más me acuerdo.

Tres amigos siempre fuimos
en aquella juventud…
Era el trío más mentado
que pudo haber caminado
por esas calles del sur.

¿Dónde andarás, Pancho Alsina?
¿Dónde andarás, Balmaceda?
Yo los espero en la esquina
de Suárez y Necochea…
Hoy… ninguno acude a mi cita.
Ya… mi vida toma el desvío.
Hoy… la guardia vieja me grita:
“¿Quién… ha dispersado aquel trío?”
Pero yo igual los recuerdo
mis dos amigos de ayer…

Una vez, allá en Portones, me salvaron de la muerte.
Nunca faltan encontrones cuando un pobre se divierte.
Y otra vez, allá en Barracas,
esa deuda les pagué…
Siempre juntos nos veían…
Esa amistad nos tenía
atados siempre a los tres.

English translation:

From my lived pages, I always carry a great memory
my emotion does not forget them, time passes and I remember more.

Three friends always went
in that youth …
It was the most talked about trio
who could have walked
through those southern streets.

Where will you go, Pancho Alsina?
Where will you go, Balmaceda?
I wait for you in the corner
from Suárez and Necochea …
Today … no one keeps this appointment.
Already … my life takes the detour.
Today … the old guard yells at me:
“Who … has scattered that trio?”
But I still remember them
my two friends yesterday …

Once, back in Portones, they saved me from death.
Encounters are never lacking when a poor person has fun.
And again, back in Barracas,
I paid them that debt …
They always saw us together …
That friendship had us
always tied to all three.

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“El trompito” by Ángel D’Agostino y su Orquesta Típica with Ángel Vargas in vocals, 1943; (English translation of the lyrics).

“El trompito” by Ángel D’Agostino y su Orquesta Típica with Ángel Vargas in vocals, 1943; (English translation of the lyrics).

Blas Clemente Catrenau at the milonga, showing of his great style of Argentine Tango dancing.

“El Trompito”

Music & Lyrics: Enrique Cadícamo.

“The little top”

I was born in a remote neighborhood,
back in the slaughterhouses,
and since I was only a child,
I danced Tango well milonguero.

The bandoneon was my godfather
in my distant childhood
and in the humble crowded dancings
I saw the cart drivers dance.
And that’s why I have a good sense for Tango,
because in the fandango
I saw it, and I learned it.

The “corrida” sideways
it is necessary, guys,
like the drink to the drunk,
like the knife to the barbecue.
The “ocho”, che! has to braid
rocking the girl
and provocatively
the “sentada” must be lead.

I am for Tango like a spinning top,
I am a skillful dancer.
When I go out to the milonga
they try to copy
my way of dancing.
In the “cortes” I play lame
and in the turns, with care,
for the dexterity I have
they call me “The Oiled”.

I’m for Tango like a spinning top
because the bellows is a thread.

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Letra original en castellano

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We are happy to have a collaboration with the people from tangotunes.com from whom some of you may have heard, they do high-quality transfers from original tango shellacs.

It is the number 1 source for professional Tango DJs all over the world.

  • Now they started a new project that addresses the dancers and the website is https://en.mytango.online
    You will find two compilations at the beginning, one tango and one vals compilation in amazing quality.
    The price is 50€ each (for 32 songs each compilation) and now the good news!

If you enter the promo code 8343 when you register at this site you will get a 20% discount!

Thanks for supporting this project, you will find other useful information on the site, a great initiative.

We have lots more music and history

Learn to dance Argentine Tango

“El Tango es una historia” by Osvaldo Pugliese y su Orquesta Típica with Roberto Chanel in vocals, 1944 with English translation of the lyrics.

“El Tango es una historia” by Osvaldo Pugliese y su Orquesta Típica with Roberto Chanel in vocals, 1944; with English translation of the lyrics.

El Tango es una historia- Disco

Music: Roberto Chanel. Lyrics: Reinaldo Yiso.

In cress leaves, with a crying feather,
the old suburb wrote his story.
Then a bohemian with the soul of a saint,
gave it harmony, made it immortal.
Like the humble grass of the sidewalks,
that are born a day without cause and reason,
that’s how tango was born, and today it’s a star
that shines in the sky of every emotion.

Tango is a story,
Every sentence is a memory,
each part is a life with a hidden grief
and all the tango is what belongs to us.
Emotion that becomes a complain
in the voice of the bandoneon.
Tango is always a story
which has in all its pages
words from the heart.

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We are happy to have a collaboration with the people from tangotunes.com from whom some of you may have heard, they do high-quality transfers from original tango shellacs.

It is the number 1 source for professional Tango DJs all over the world.

  • Now they started a new project that addresses the dancers and the website is https://en.mytango.online
    You will find two compilations at the beginning, one tango and one vals compilation in amazing quality.
    The price is 50€ each (for 32 songs each compilation) and now the good news!

If you enter the promo code 8343 when you register at this site you will get a 20% discount!

Thanks for supporting this project, you will find other useful information on the site, a great initiative.

Ver este artículo en español

We have lots more music and history

Learn to dance Argentine Tango