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Malena · Roberto Goyeneche · 1986

Roberto Goyeneche · tango · 1986
Music by Lucio Demare, lyrics by Homero Manzi. 16 recordings in our catalogue, 1942–2001.

Who recorded it

Every version16

Earliest we hold: Aníbal Troilo, 1942

  1. Aníbal TroiloFrancisco Fiorentino · Raúl Berón19421952
  2. Osvaldo Pugliese1974
  3. Miguel CalóRaúl del Mar · Héctor Gagliardi …19651965
  4. Lucio DemareJuan Carlos Miranda · Héctor Alvarado194219511957
  5. Francisco CanaroJuan Carlos Rolon1955
  6. Color Tango (Roberto Alvarez)1998

Recorded in 1986, during the Revival (1985–1999).

1986

19851999

Roberto Goyeneche · no periods written yet

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Key facts
Year
1986
Orchestra
Roberto Goyeneche
Contents1The song2Who wrote it3Lyrics4Every version5One recording

The song

ROBERTO GOYENECHE Y SU ORQUESTA TÍPICARoberto GoyenecheMALENATango1986

The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.

11 orchestras recorded it

135 Dances filmed to it

Who wrote it

Music
Lucio Demare
Words
Homero Manzi
Written
not yet cited · help fill it
First played
not yet cited · help fill it

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Lyrics

Español

Malena canta el tango como ninguna y en cada verso pone su corazón. A yuyo del suburbio su voz perfuma, Malena tiene pena de bandoneón. Tal vez allá en la infancia su voz de alondra tomó ese tono oscuro de callejón, o acaso aquel romance que sólo nombra cuando se pone triste con el alcohol. Malena canta el tango con voz de sombra, Malena tiene pena de bandoneón. Tu canción tiene el frío del último encuentro. Tu canción se hace amarga en la sal del recuerdo. Yo no sé si tu voz es la flor de una pena, sólo sé que al rumor de tus tangos, Malena, te siento más buena, más buena que yo. Tus ojos son oscuros como el olvido, tus labios apretados como el rencor, tus manos dos palomas que sienten frío, tus venas tienen sangre de bandoneón. Tus tangos son criaturas abandonadas que cruzan sobre el barro del callejón, cuando todas las puertas están cerradas y ladran los fantasmas de la canción. Malena canta el tango con voz quebrada, Malena tiene pena de bandoneón.

English · machine translation

Malena sings tango like no other and in each verse she puts her heart. Her voice is perfumed with the scent of the suburbs, Malena has the sorrow of a bandoneon. Maybe back in her childhood her lark's voice took that dark tone of the alley, or perhaps that romance that she only mentions when she gets sad with alcohol. Malena sings the tango with a shadowy voice, Malena has the sorrow of a bandoneon. Your song has the cold of the last encounter. Your song becomes bitter in the salt of memory. I do not know if your voice is the flower of a sorrow, I only know that to the murmur of your tangos, Malena, I feel you better, better than me. Your eyes are dark as oblivion, your lips tight as rancor, your hands two doves that feel cold, your veins have bandoneon blood. Your tangos are abandoned creatures that cross over the mud of the alley, when all the doors are closed and the ghosts of the song bark. Malena sings the tango with a broken voice, Malena has the sorrow of a bandoneon.

Every version

Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone

The catalogue holds 16 recordings of this song by 11 orchestras, 1942 to 2001.
1940’50’60’70’80’90’00
Recordings of Malena · Roberto Goyeneche · 1986 by year, taller the more they are danced · 16 of 16 recordings carry a year · read Nov 8, 2026

A Song's recorded lineage

We hold dated Recordings by 11 orchestras; the earliest here is Aníbal Troilo in 1942.

  1. 1942Aníbal TroiloRecording
  2. 1942Lucio DemareRecording
  3. 1950Quintin VerduRecording
  4. 1951Puglia-PedrozaRecording
  5. 1955Francisco CanaroRecording
  6. 1965Miguel CalóRecording
  7. 1968Roberto GoyenecheRecording
  8. 1972Hugo DiazRecording
  9. 1974Osvaldo PuglieseRecording
  10. 1998Color Tango (Roberto Alvarez)Recording
  11. 2001Horacio Salgan y Ubaldo De LioRecording

Gold marks the first we hold, not the first ever. Filled dots have filmed Dances; rings have no Dances matched yet.

16 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 31 more we know of

a version people dance tono Dances matched yet: something to listen to

The leader is Lucio Demare, with 36% of the 135 filmed dances matched to a version of this song.

21 more dances name this song but not which version, so no share counts them. “No match yet” means no filmed dance is tied to that version so far, not that nobody dances it. Dances whose music we have not identified are left out.

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

  1. Osvaldo PuglieseMalena · Osvaldo Pugliese · instrumental · tango · Dec 11, 1974 · Odeon
    24 dances · 18%
    1974
  2. Hugo DiazMalena · Hugo Diaz · tango · 1972
    13 dances · 10%
    1972
  3. Color Tango (Roberto Alvarez)Malena · Color Tango (Roberto Alvarez) · tango · 1998
    9 dances · 7%
    1998
  4. Francisco CanaroMalena · Francisco Canaro · Juan Carlos Rolon · tango · Aug 2, 1955 · Odeon
    2 dances · 1%
    1955
  5. Quintin VerduMalena · Quintin Verdu · Lucio Lamberto · tango · Dec 12, 1950
    No match yet
    1950
  6. Puglia-PedrozaMalena · Puglia-Pedroza · Francisco Fiorentino · tango · 1951
    No match yet
    1951
  7. Horacio Salgan y Ubaldo De LioMalena · Horacio Salgan y Ubaldo De Lio · tango · Dec 1, 2001 · Melopea
    No match yet
    2001
  8. -unspecified guitars-Not in our catalogueAzucena Maizani1942
  9. -unspecified orchestra-Not in our catalogueEdmundo Rivero1961
  10. Lucio DemareNot in our catalogueJul 301968
  11. Rosanna FalascaNot in our catalogue1982
  12. Rosaura SilvestreNot in our catalogue1995
  13. Alfredo MarcucciNot in our catalogueRamón Regueira1998
  14. Ensemble HyperionNot in our catalogueAntonella Ruggiero · Jul 212010
  15. Agustín IrustaNot in our catalogue
  16. Azucena MaizaniNot in our catalogue

One recording

A dated take, with its sound and the couples dancing it.

ROBERTO GOYENECHE Y SU ORQUESTA TÍPICARoberto GoyenecheMALENATango1986

Roberto Goyeneche

Malena · Roberto Goyeneche · tango · 1986

No couple filmed dancing this recording yet

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  1. Malena · Aníbal Troilo · Francisco Fiorentino · 1942

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