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Jack Campin	El Cambalache (4)	El Cambalache	21 Jul 17
I came across a description of this tango song in Brian Winter's book Long After Midnight at the Niño Bien, but only just got around to looking it up. It would make a great anthem for Theresa May's England. Written by Enrique Santos Discépolo in 1935. I think it was first sung by Julio Sosa, whose film performance in this clip is a great piece of dramatic song delivery - unlike Gardel, who was compulsively charming, Sosa threatens to punch you in the face straight through the screen. It's like a scene out of the best Hollywood cinema of the era. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0kTiKCC3UI Lyrics here, with literal translation. It would be nice to have a singable English-language version but those extraordinary tonguetwisters would be a bugger to do in any other language. Somebody like Ian Dury might have pulled it off. https://letrasdetango.wordpress.com/2011/02/15/cambalache/ Score: http://anclasol.com/AS/Prog/BDalm_docs/images/99002600_1331300455.pdf

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