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Tinta roja · Osvaldo Pugliese · 1972

Osvaldo PuglieseinstrumentaltangoOdeon
Music by Sebastián Piana, lyrics by Catulo Castillo. 4 recordings in our catalogue, 1941–1972.
1941: 1 · danced 15 times1950: 1 · danced 0 times1971: 1 · danced 82 times1972: 1 · danced 14 times
1941’50’60’701972
records madedanced on film, by the record’s year· our catalogue

1941: 1, 15; 1950: 1, 0; 1971: 1, 82; 1972: 1, 14

  1. Aníbal Troilo’s 1971 version holds 73% of its dancing (82 of 111).

    How we know

    Of the dances to its 4 recordings in our catalogue. Dances count filmed Occasions on TangoTube.

  2. Aníbal Troilo recorded it in 1941 and 1971.

    How we know

    Takes in our catalogue by the same orchestra in different years; the canon’s first orchestra is named.

Tinta roja · Osvaldo Pugliese · 1972 is a tango.† Tinta roja · Osvaldo Pugliese · 1972 lasts 03:08.†

Credit

Music
Sebastián Piana
Lyrics
Catulo Castillo

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Every recording

4 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 11 more we know of

1940’50’60’70

Choose A and B on two recordings to hear them one after the other.

  1. Aníbal TroiloEarliest we holdTinta rojaAníbal TroiloFrancisco FiorentinotangoRCA Victor
    15 dances
    1941
  2. Aníbal TroiloMost dancedTinta rojaAníbal TroiloRoberto GoyenechetangoRCA Victor
    82 dances
    1971
  3. Osvaldo PuglieseTinta rojaOsvaldo PuglieseinstrumentaltangoOdeon
    14 dances
    1972
  4. Alberto MancioneTinta rojaAlberto MancioneFrancisco Fiorentinotango
    Not danced on film yet
    1950
  5. Leopoldo FedericoNot in our catalogueSusana Rinaldi1981
  6. Fulvio SalamancaNot in our catalogueJulio Rodolfo1985
  7. Gustavo NocettiNot in our catalogue
  8. Rubén JuárezNot in our catalogue
  9. Jorge ValdezNot in our catalogue
  10. Susana RinaldiNot in our catalogue
  11. Eduardo Del PianoNot in our catalogue
  12. -unspecified female-Not in our catalogue
  13. José LibertellaNot in our catalogueMiguel Montero
  14. Leopoldo FedericoNot in our catalogue
  15. Raúl LaviéNot in our catalogue

Lyrics

Español · Underlined words are lunfardo: tap one for its meaning.

Paredón, tinta roja en el gris del ayer... Tu emoción de ladrillo feliz sobre mi callejón con un borrón pintó la esquina... Y al botón que en el ancho de la noche puso el filo de la ronda como un broche... Y aquel buzón carmín, y aquel fondín donde lloraba el su rubio amor lejano que mojaba con bon vin. ¿Dónde estará mi arrabal? ¿Quién se robó mi niñez? ¿En qué rincón, luna mía, volcás como entonces tu clara alegría? Veredas que yo pisé, malevos que ya no son, bajo tu cielo de raso trasnocha un pedazo de mi corazón. Paredón tinta roja en el gris del ayer... Borbotón de mi sangre infeliz que vertí en el malvón de aquel balcón que la escondía... Yo no sé si fue negro de mis penas o fue rojo de tus venas mi sangría... Por qué llegó y se fue tras del carmín y el gris, fondín lejano donde lloraba un sus nostalgias de bon vin.

English · machine translation

Wall, red ink in the gray of yesterday... Your emotion of happy brick on my alley with a blur painted the corner... And to the button that in the width of the night put the edge of the round like a brooch... And that carmine mailbox, and that fondin where the tano wept his faraway blond love that he soaked with bon vin. Where is my suburb? Who stole my childhood? In what corner, my moon will you pour as you did then your clear joy? Sidewalks that I trod, evil men who are no more, under your satin sky a piece of my heart of my heart. Wall red ink in the gray of yesterday... Gush of my unhappy blood that I poured on the mallow of that balcony that hid her... I do not know if it was black from my sorrows or was it red from your veins my bloodletting... Why did it come and go after the crimson and the gray, distant fondin where a tano wept his nostalgia for bon vin.

Danced to it

Music from 1972 · danced on film 2016–2023

20162023
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

2016: 2, 2018: 1, 2023: 9

Danced alongside it

Our data: the recordings most often danced in the same filmed Performance as this one (one Couple dancing one to eight songs). Nearer the middle, more Performances.

  1. 1La brujaJuan D'Arienzo, 1959 · danced together in 4 Performances
  2. 2MerceditasOrquesta Simbolo Osmar Maderna, 1958 · danced together in 2 Performances

From TangoTube's videos · our data

Data: recordings, facts and sources

In other catalogues6

tango.info · 00724383740727-1-16

Single source

tango.info · 00094637195628-1-11

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tango.info · 00077779662425-1-9

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tango.info · 00724383785728-1-11

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tango.info · 02480002027942-1-10

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tango.info · 02480002333203-2-4

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Is a1

Is a tango

Single source

Duration1

Duration 03:08

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Vocal1

Vocal instrumental

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  1. Tinta rojaAníbal TroiloFrancisco Fiorentino

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