Sunday, 15 February 2026

Танго и вальс

by Various Artists

Here’s another LP that my mum often asked “to put on”. I don’t know who and when bought it. By all accounts, it was a weird compilation. Only on five (of 16) tracks the performers were credited, one of them incorrectly; the rest of the songs was played by an anonymous “orchestra”. Some of the titles were translated in a funny way (how A media luz even can be «Твоё имя»?) and some not translated at all (El Choclo = «Эль чокло»). But my mum loved this album and, re-listening it now, I realise that I liked it too. What not to like? After all, it delivers what is says: a waltz after a tango and a tango after a waltz, and comes with a psychedelic cover artwork.

Side A
  1. Mama, yo quiero un novio (Ramón Collazo)
  2. Angelica (Rolf Zimmermann)
  3. Il pleut sur la route (Henry Himmel) — Yoichi Sugawara
  4. Květ Aloe (Vlastimil Kloc)
  5. La Paloma (Sebastián Iradier)
  6. La Valse à mille temps (Jacques Brel) — Jacques Brel
  7. A media luz (Edgardo Donato)
  8. It’s A Sin To Tell A Lie (Billy Mayhew)
1 сторона
  1. Мама, я люблю (Коллацо)
  2. Анжелика (Р. Циммерман)
  3. Дождь идёт (Ц. Биксио*) — Еити Сугавара
  4. Цветок алоэ (Клоц)
  5. Голубка (Ирадье)
  6. Всё о вальсе (Ж. Брель) — Жак Брель
  7. Твоё имя (Донато)
  8. Скажи мне правду (Мейхью)
Side B
  1. Gruß aus Paris (Ralph Stüwe)
  2. Tango Italiano (Walter Malgoni, Bruno Pallesi, Luciano Beretta) — Marino Marini
  3. Song of the Islands (Na Lei O Hawaii) (Charles E. King)
  4. Confesión (Enrique Santos Discépolo)
  5. Sous le vieux Pont des Soupirs (Marguerite Monnot, Jean Broussolle) — Lucienne Delyle
  6. El paso (Jürgen Hermann)
  7. Les Bicyclettes de Belsize (Les Reed, Barry Mason)
  8. El Choclo (Ángel Villoldo)
2 сторона
  1. Привет издалека (Р. Штюве)
  2. Танго итальяно (Мальгони) — Марино Марини
  3. На далёких островах (Кинг)
  4. Признание (Дисцеполо)
  5. Всюду звучит вальс (М. Моно) — Люсьена Делиль
  6. Шаг за шагом (Ю. Герман)
  7. Тандем (Л. Рид) — Том Джонс
  8. Эль чокло (Вилольдо)

* I’ve no idea who it is but it’s not the composer of the song.
Definitely not Tom Jones. The song was recorded by Engelbert Humperdinck but on this compilation it’s somebody else.