MI NOCHE TRISTE
Created on 20/06/2002Latest update on 20/06/2002
Artist: Pascual Contursi
Author: Pascual Contursi/Samuel Castriota
Year: 1916
In cabaret Moulin Rouge in Montevideo. The first sentimental tango with a vocal story line (Tango canción). Contursi wrote new words to an existing Castriota tango (Lita), which was routine. Lyrics in Lunfardo, the street lingo of BsAs.
Covers:
- 1917:
Carlos Gardel [first recording (Odeon Nacional) with guitarist José Ricardo]
- 1960s:
- 1992:
- 1997:
- 1998:
Pascual Contursi cowrote La Cumparsita (see there). In the early thirties Cuban singer Principe Cubano (real name: Angel Sanchez Carenno) sued both writers for copying music and words of his own composition Rosa, a song he was rewarded for in Paris in 1914.
