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| (Gerardo Matos Rodriguez) |
| (o): | Roberto Firpo (1916) | label: Odeon |
| | In café La Giralda in Montevideo. Uruguayan tango (means The Small Carnival Parade). To Matos Rodriguez' melody, Firpo added elements from Verdi's Miserere and a piece of his own tango La Gaucha Manuela. Lyrics (as Si Supieras) added in '24 by Pascual Contursi and Enrique Maroni. Later better known as Hernando's Hideaway (see there). |
| (c): | Orquesta Alonso-Minotto (1917) , Carlos Gardel (1924) [as Si Supieras; Parisian success; in '27 as La Cumparsita (for Decca in Argentina)], Francisco Canaro (1924) [idem], Tito Schipa (1930) [with other words], Orquesta Criolla Argentina (1930) , Hal Kemp (1933) , Solistas De D'Arienzo (1937) , Xavier Cugat (1939) [vocal: Dinah Shore], Desi Arnaz (1947) [instrumental], Malando (1958) , Astor Piazzolla (1960s) , Brave Combo (1981) , José Garcia (1991) , Julio Iglesias (1996) , Danny Malando (2000) [Malando's grandson], |
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