This week’s tango “Por la vuelta” represents a sweet little corner of the songbook, where things are not tragic but ironic, even urbane. The story is of a casual romance, only the song leaves most of it out…
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Enrique Cadícamo
Enrique Cadícamo’s 1930 tango “Anclao en París” was a hit for Carlos Gardel (one of whose regular guitarists, Guillermo Barbieri, supplied the music). The song delves into the Bohemian themes of the early tangos…
Taking its place in the tradition between “Milonguita” and “Griseta,” two formative tangos of the 1920s, Cadícamo’s “Madame Ivonne” adds another name to the memorable list of tragic young women portrayed in the tango songbook.
The great lyricist Enrique Cadícamo seemingly had every style at his fingertips, and by the 1940s his songbook was already becoming a resource for more material.
With lyrics by Enrique Cadícamo and music by the great singer Charlo—who wrote a handful of sophisticated tunes, including “Fueye” and “El viejo vals”—the song was not only a tango hit in the 1940s, but became popular throughout Latin America in a variety of other stylings.
Like some other lyrics of the 1940s penned by the great Enrique Cadícamo, these words for Juan Carlos Cobián’s tune “Shusheta” turn back to the characters, images, and themes of the early days of the tango, showing a tender irony along with a certain ambivalence.
This 1937 tango from the Cadícamo-Cobián duo—the songwriters who also joined forces for “Nostalgias” and “Los Mareados,” among others—conjures up a melancholy scene of the docks shrouded in mist…
Composed by songwriter duo Juan Carlos Cobián and Enrique Cadicamo, who would later produce “Los mareados” without even conferring with each other, “Nostalgias” has become a big hit with singers and dancers alike. Its memorable lyrics carry the tune perfectly…
The famous tango “Los mareados” is the result of a string of creative rewritings. Originally composed as an instrumental tune called “Clarita” by Juan Carlos Cobián in the early 1920s, the song was adapted for the stage under the new title “Los dopados,” and decades later would be adapted again by lyricist Enrique Cadícamo…
Called by some fans a distillation of the tango’s theme of lost love, this text by Enrique Cadícamo captures the experience of longing and the burning of inward regret—reminding us that the tango is not just a melancholy outpouring of emotion, but a song tradition that centers on conscience.