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…
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1940s
The backtracking, repeating lyrics of this 1942 hit make use of those staccato rhythmic figures that have characterized tango melodies from the earliest days through the Golden Age of the ’40s and beyond.