CHOCLO, EL

Created on 21/10/2002
Latest update on 17/11/2023

Artist: Angel Villoldo
Author: Angel Gregorio Villoldo
Year: 1907

Tango milonga (means The Corncob). Written in 1903, cut four years later with a guitar in Paris on wax roll. Definitive lyrics by Juan Carlos Marambio Catán in '47.

Covers:

1926:

Banda Española

1929:

Orquesta Tipica Victor

1940:

Roberto Firpo

1942:

Stan Kenton

1948:

Francisco Canaro [vocal: Alberto Arenas; lyrics by Enrique Santos Discépolo]

1948:

Mantovani

1952:

Georgia Gibbs [as Kiss Of Fire n°1 US]

1952:

Tony Martin [idem]

1952:

Billy Eckstine [idem]

1952:

Louis Armstrong [idem]

1952:

Guy Lombardo [idem]

1952:

Anne Shelton [idem]

1952:

Victor Silvester [idem]

1953:

Xavier Cugat

1953:

Francisco Carlos [Brasilian as Aventureira]

1956:

Michel Legrand

1958:

Caterina Valente [as Kiss Of Fire]

1959:

Astor Piazzolla

1960:

Connie Francis [as Beso De Fuego]

1962:

Trio Los Panchos

1963:

Jumping Jewels

1989:

Snooks Eaglin [as Kiss Of Fire]

1991:

José Garcia

1996:

Julio Iglesias [on cd Tango]

1998:

Giora Feidman [klezmer version on cd Clarinetango]

1999:

Delinquent Habits [brass sample throughout Return of the Tres]

2000:

Helmut Lotti

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