EL CHOCLO The ear of corn (1903) LYRICS by: Juan Carlos Marambio Catan (1930) and Enrique Santos Discepolo (1946 MUSIC by: Angel Villoldo TRANSLATION by: Alberto Paz Last updated on: 3/27/12 Return to Index Sing along with ELBA VERON with SEXTETO MAYOR Sing along with ANGEL VARGAS with ANGEL D’AGOSTINO On November 3, 1905, the [...]

ESTA NOCHE ME EMBORRACHO Tonight I’m getting drunk (1927) LYRICS by: Enrique Santos Discepolo MUSIC by: Enrique Santos Discepolo TRANSLATION by: Ramon Peñalva Last updated on: 3/9/12 Return to Index Sing along with GUESS WHO with GUESS WHO This is the story of a man who casually runs into an old sweetheart after ten years [...]

MALEVAJE Hoodlums LYRICS by: Enrique Santos Discepolo MUSIC by: Juan de Dios Filiberto TRANSLATION by: Alberto Paz Last updated on: 1/11/12 Return to Index Sing along with TANIA with ORQUESTA ARMANDO LACAVA Discepolo explores the changes that the love for a woman produce in a tough macho man. Somehow falling in love is equated with [...]

INFAMIA Infamy (1941) LYRICS by: Enrique Santos Discepolo MUSIC by: Enrique Santos Discepolo TRANSLATION by: Alberto Paz Last updated on: 1/10/12 Return to Index Sing along with TANIA with ORQUESTA DONATO RACCIATTI Discepolo’s childhood and adolescence seem to justify many of his verses, but who is responsible for his many verses about unhappy love? Discépolo [...]

CAFETIN DE BUENOS AIRES Small tavern of Buenos Aires (1948) LYRICS by: Enrique Santos Discepolo MUSIC by: Mariano Mores TRANSLATION by: Ramon Peñalva Last updated on: 12/25/11 Return to Index Sing along with ROBERTO GOYENECHE with ORQUESTA TIPICA PORTENA A “cafetín” was a small tavern, in the first half of this century. It was the [...]

TORMENTA Storm (1939) LYRICS by: Enrique Santos Discepolo Enrique Santos Discepolo by: Composer TRANSLATION by: Alberto Paz Last updated on: 6/17/11 Return to Index Sing along with Mario Pomar and Carlos Di Sarli God, faith and religious themes are present on 11 of 44 tangos written by Enrique Santos Discepolo. CASTELLANO ENGLISH ¡Aullando entre relámpagos, [...]

CAMBALACHE Bazaar (1935) LYRICS by: Enrique Santos Discepolo MUSIC by: Enrique Santos Discepolo TRANSLATION by: Alberto Paz Last updated on: 12/25/11 Return to Index Sing along with JULIO SOSA Several times in the twentieth century, self-appointed monitors of good taste and manners have used censorship to silence the people’s voice in Argentina. In one notorious [...]