The eight adaptations of Milonga of Star Tuca, each of them portraying a different arrangement, can be forwarded free of charge by e-mail in MP3 format. We can also send individual recordings of the song. All sound tracks are live recordings with limited technical studio resources but even so the sound quality is fairly good.

The original lyrics in Portuguese, and also the translations into English and Spanish, as well as the score on pages Fls. 1/2, and Fls. 2/2,are available on the "Thematic Tango Bar" page at the Brazilian Tango Website “Portal de Tango no Brasil, "Bardetango".

Click on the sound track number to listen to each version of the recording

Track n.° 1: (2,54 Mb), Tango Milonga, is the original version tape recording by Ubirajara Silva and his bandonion, at his home address, soon after the melody was completed in March 2000.  

Track n.° 2: (2,92 Mb), a live MD recording fixed during the official launching party at the “Casa Cultura Lugar Comum”, in Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, on April 30, 2000, and performed by the Tango Group De Puro Guapos, from Sao Paulo, and singer Walquíria Baliello.  

Track n.° 3: (2,82 Mb), a live MD recording fixed during a presentation at the second launching of the song at Planeta Tango, in Lapa neighborhood on May 26, 2000, performed again by Ubirajara Silva, but in a slower rhythm. 

Track n.° 4: (2,30 Mb), also a live MD recording by De Puro Guapos, en “Lugar Comum”, on 30/04/2000, an exclusively instrumental arrangement.  

Track n.° 5: (2,67 Mb), a live MD recording by Ubirajara Silva and his bandonion, at the Casa de Cultura de la Universidad Estácio de Sá - Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, on December 7, 2000, at the launching ceremony of Ney Homero S. Rocha’s book "Tango Uma Paixão Porteña no Brasil". 

Track n.° 6: (1,17 Mb), a live tape recording in Buenos Aires in December 2000 by the tango group “Quinteto San Telmo” (San Telmo Quintet), which includes the original version in tango milonga style.  

Track n.° 7: (1,02 Mb), a tape recording fixed in Buenos Aires by the San Telmo quintet, this time with an habanera rhythm. 

Track n.° 8: (1,45 Mb) also a tape recording by San Telmo Quintet in Buenos Aires in a pure tango style.

Our Argentine friends consider the last three versions the more “porteño” styled ones, and regard version No. 8 as being “a very lovely one”.  

However, these last three versions are experimental recordings, each of them lasting one and a half minutes approximately, that is, almost half of a song’s normal duration. This means that only the first part is performed. The melody repeats in the second part of the song.