Mi noche triste

"Mi noche triste" ('My sad night') was the first tango the singer Carlos Gardel recorded.

[1] Its music was composed in 1915 by Samuel Castriota (1885–1932) as an instrumental tango, originally named Lita, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Soon after, Pascual Contursi (1888–1932) wrote the lyrics without the composer's permission in Montevideo, Uruguay, and named it "Percanta que me amuraste".

Carlos Gardel heard that song and performed it in Buenos Aires on January 3, 1917, at the Esmeralda Theater.

Nostalgic, melodramatic, and sad, the new lyrics and the music embodied Buenos Aires and its people.