El reloj


"El reloj" is a song of the bolero genre, with music and lyrics by Mexican composer and singer Roberto Cantoral, then a member of the Los Tres Caballeros trio.

History

Cantoral composed the song in 1956, in Washington D.C., in front of the Potomac River, at the end of a Los Tres Caballeros's tour of the United States. During the tour he had had an affair with one of the girls participating in the show, who should return to New York the next morning. This love episode, and the presence of a lounge clock during their last meeting, were the events that triggered the inspiration of Cantoral, which would soon turn this episode, relatively trivial, into the story of a deep love.
Los Tres Caballeros premiered the song in 1957 and it was an immediate success. Since then, it has been versioned by countless interpreters, in several languages.

Interpreters of "El reloj"

;Spanish version
;Japanese version