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Artist: Roberto Firpo
Author: Gerardo Matos Rodriguez
Label: Odeon
Year: 1916
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).
Covers:
Carlos Gardel [as Si Supieras; Parisian success; in '27 as La Cumparsita (for Decca in Argentina)]
Francisco Canaro [idem]
Tito Schipa [with other words]
Xavier Cugat [vocal: Dinah Shore]
Desi Arnaz [instrumental]
Danny Malando [Malando's grandson]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)