Neo-neocon has a tango post, Tango: by a horse’s head, and she links to Al Pacino’s tango in Scent of a Woman:
Neo also located the lyrics to that tango, and the original version by Carlos Gardel.
Since I spent five hours at tango yesterday and had previously posted the Pacino tango, here’s another one:
and another:
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A neoneocon? Would that be the son or daughter of a ex-Jewish socialist?
Que hermoso che.
Of all the versions of Por una cabeza, Gardel’s is still the best.
And to think I was listening to him sing Madreselva as I surfed in to type this.
Have you ever thought that the first bars of Gardel’s “Arrabanero” sounds like the same melody as “My name is Captain Spaulding, the African explorer…” as sung by Groucho Marx?