The Cabeceo

We've caught your eye across the milonga. Like any good tango, this starts with consent — nothing optional runs until you say so.Cookies only with your yes. What we store.

Skip to content

Song

De puro guapo · Pedro Laurenz · 1940

Music by Pedro Laurenz, lyrics by Manuel Meaños. 8 recordings in our catalogue, 1935–1972.
1935: 2 · danced 6 times1940: 1 · danced 28 times1964: 1 · danced 1 times1967: 1 · danced 0 times1968: 1 · danced 0 times1969: 1 · danced 0 times1972: 1 · danced 0 times
1935’40’50’601972
records madedanced on film, by the record’s year· our catalogue

1935: 2, 6; 1940: 1, 28; 1964: 1, 1; 1967: 1, 0; 1968: 1, 0; 1969: 1, 0; 1972: 1, 0

  1. Pedro Laurenz recorded it in 1940 and 1968.

    How we know

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

De puro guapo · Pedro Laurenz · 1940 was sung by Juan Carlos Casas.†† De puro guapo · Pedro Laurenz · 1940 is a tango.† De puro guapo · Pedro Laurenz · 1940 lasts 02:46.†

Credit

Music
Pedro Laurenz
Lyrics
Manuel Meaños

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Every recording

8 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 6 more we know of

1930’40’50’60’70

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

  1. Juan D'ArienzoInstrumental · RCA Victor · Sep 18
    Not danced on film yet
    1969
  2. Aníbal TroiloInstrumental · RCA Victor · Nov 29
    Not danced on film yet
    1967
  3. Osvaldo PuglieseInstrumental · Odeon · Nov 10
    Not danced on film yet
    1972
  4. Pedro LaurenzMost dancedJuan Carlos Casas · RCA Victor · Jan 25
    28 dances
    1940
  5. Pedro LaurenzMicrofon · Dec 1
    Not danced on film yet
    1968
  6. Francisco CanaroEarliest we holdRoberto Maida · Odeon · Jul 24
    6 dances
    1935
  7. Francisco LomutoJorge Omar · RCA Victor · Nov 26
    Not danced on film yet
    1935
  8. Quinteto Real (Horacio Salgán)Columbia
    1 dance
    1964
  9. Miguel MonteroNot in our catalogueMay 151961
  10. Pedro LaurenzNot in our catalogue1966
  11. José LibertellaNot in our catalogueMiguel Montero
  12. Leopoldo FedericoNot in our catalogue
  13. Leopoldo Federico, Roberto GrelaNot in our catalogue
  14. Puro ApronteNot in our catalogue

Danced to it

Music from 1940 · danced on film 2011–2026

20112026
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

2011: 1, 2012: 2, 2013: 1, 2014: 2, 2018: 2, 2019: 4, 2022: 1, 2024: 1, 2025: 2, 2026: 2

Jonathan Saavedra & Clarisa AragónWorld Champions · Tango de Pista 20152019 · 3:09

Through the decades

  1. The 2010sJonathan Saavedra & Clarisa Aragón2019
  2. The 2020sJonathan Saavedra & Clarisa Aragón2024

Where it is danced

The places our videos show it danced, by performances filmed there.

  1. El BesoBalvanera
    1 performance
  2. Espacio Riobamba (Club Castel)Balvanera
    1 performance
  3. Salón CanningPalermo
    1 performance
  4. Salón La NacionalMonserrat
    1 performance

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. 1Gallo ciegoOsvaldo Pugliese, 1959 · danced together in 2 Performances

Connected

From TangoTube's videos · our data

Data: recordings, facts and sources

Singers1

Sung by Juan Carlos CasasJan 25, 1940

Supported · 2

Recordings1

Recorded by Pedro LaurenzJan 25, 1940

Single source

In other catalogues15

tango.info · 00828766032826-1-7

Single source

tango.info · 02480002027416-1-2

Single source

tango.info · 02480002032007-1-5

Single source

tango.info · 02480002032007-1-13

Single source

tango.info · 02480002043157-1-8

Single source

tango.info · 02480002101123-2-154

Single source

tango.info · 02480002114420-1-7

Single source

tango.info · 02480002152491-1-15

Single source

tango.info · 02480002301523-1-5

Single source

tango.info · 02480002332220-2-1

Single source

tango.info · 02480002708049-1-1

Single source

tango.info · 04024236204243-1-2

Single source

tango.info · 08427328130820-1-5

Single source

tango.info · 08427328134149-1-7

Single source

tango.info · 08427328149037-2-2

Single source

Is a1

Is a tango

Single source

Duration1

Duration 02:46

Single source

Audio feature14

Audio feature 132.5

Single source

Audio feature 0.95

Single source

Audio feature C

Single source

Audio feature minor

Single source

Audio feature 0.694

Single source

Audio feature -20.2

Single source

Audio feature 0.248

Single source

Audio feature 0.385

Single source

Audio feature 0.143

Single source

Audio feature 0.0

Single source

Audio feature 0.857

Single source

Audio feature 134.9

Single source

Audio feature 67.4

Single source

Audio feature step

Single source

Vocal1

Vocal sung

Single source

Listen

  1. De puro guapoFrancisco Canaro · Roberto Maida1935

Ask Tangopedia

Answers only from cited facts, each with its source.