Artist: Carlos Gardel
Author: Carlos Gardel/Alfredo Le Pera
Year: 1935
In film El Dia Que Me Quieras (The Day You Love Me), shortly before his tragic death.
Covers:
Julio Iglesias [on cd Tango]
Gloria Estefan [Spanish and English version, as The Day You Say You Love Me]
Le Pera's lyrics were a remake of a Mexican poem by Amado Nervo (1915). Copyrights straightened with his heirs. That same poem (El Dia Que Me Quieras) had been set to an earlier melody by pianist Raul Brujis.
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Arnold Rypens
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