"Uno" (One) is a 1943 tango with lyrics by

Enrique Santos Discépolo Enrique Santos Discépolo (''Discepolín'') (27 March 1901 – 23 December 1951) was an Argentine tango and milonga musician and composer, author of famous tangos like ''Cambalache'' and many others performed by several of the most important s ...

and music by

Mariano Mores Mariano Alberto Martínez (18 February 1918 13 April 2016), known professionally as Mariano Mores, was an Argentine tango composer and pianist. Biography Mariano Martínez was born in the San Telmo section of Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1918. ...

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The lyrics commence: "Uno busca lleno de esperanzas el camino que los sueños prometieron a sus ansias".César Evaristo 100 tangos de oro 2o Ed. - Page 1927 9876347276 UNO Letra de Enrique Santos Discépolo i Música de Mariano Mores/ 1943 Mores acompañaba con su piano a Tania, la mujer de Discépolo, en 1940, en sus actuaciones en el cabaret Marabú. ... Si yo tuviera el corazón, el corazón que di. The message deals with a man who is fearful of falling in love again as a woman played with his feelings.

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* It was among the tango standards selected by

Plácido Domingo José Plácido Domingo Embil (born 21 January 1941) is a Spanish opera singer, conductor, and arts administrator. He has recorded over a hundred complete operas and is well known for his versatility, regularly performing in Italian, French, ...

for his 1981 album ''

Plácido Domingo Sings Tangos ''Plácido Domingo Sings Tangos'' is a 1981 album by Plácido Domingo. The album was recorded in Argentina where it sold over 80,000 copies.Billboard - 30 Jan 1982 - Page 70 Vol. 94, No. 4 - "Mi Buenos Aires Quendo," set for release as a promotiona ...

''. * Selected by

Julio Iglesias Julio José Iglesias de la Cueva (; born 23 September 1943) is a Spanish singer, songwriter and former professional footballer. Iglesias is recognized as the most commercially successful Spanish singer in the world and one of the top record ...

for his 1992 album '' Calor'' and again for his 1996 tango tribute ''

Tango Tango is a partner dance and social dance that originated in the 1880s along the Río de la Plata, the natural border between Argentina and Uruguay. The tango was born in the impoverished port areas of these countries as the result of a combina ...

'' and covered to French (Je oublie que je t'aime), Italian (se ora avessi un po' di te) and Portuguese (Sonho Triste) version * Sung by

Luis Miguel Luis Miguel Gallego Basteri (born 19 April 1970) is a Puerto Rican-born Mexican singer, often referred to as ''El Sol de México'' (The Sun of Mexico), which is the nickname his mother gave him as a child—"mi sol". Luis Miguel has sung in mu ...

for his 1997 album '' Romances''.

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1943 songs Tangos Argentine songs {{1940s-song-stub