Ojos negros que fascinan
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Overview
Ojos negros que fascinan
Tango
C: Manuel Salina (Manuel G. Salinger) A: Florián Rey (Antonio Martínez del Castillo)
Not found in SADAIC.
Performances
Orquesta Típica Francisco Canaro
Vocalist: Roberto Maida
Recorded: 1935-04-25
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Feedback 2014-01-02
I noticed that the Composer and Lyricist fields remain blank here, so I thought you might appreciate the following info:
This song is actually a translation of a very, very famous Russian romance (as in ballad) Ochi Chernye / Dark Eyes.
Here's the Russian wikipedia page on it: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Очи_чёрные
(the English version is slightly less informative, but here it is for completeness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Eyes_(song)
The Russian lyrics were originally a poem written by a Ukrainian writer Evgeny Grebenka (1843). The poem was then set to a waltz by Florian Hermann, ed. S. Gerdel, first published in 1884.
I am guessing that Canaro must have reworked the melody in 4/4 time from the original 3/4 time (I actually have no idea how his version came about, sorry).