Song
La puñalada · Juan D'Arienzo · 1943
1937: 2, 4; 1943: 1, 81; 1946: 1, 2; 1949: 1, 0; 1950: 1, 0; 1951: 2, 4; 1955: 1, 0; 1963: 1, 2; 1967: 1, 0; 1971: 1, 0; 1975: 1, 0; 1987: 1, 0; 2013: 1, 0; 2014: 1, 0
Juan D'Arienzo recorded it in 1937, 1943, 1951 and 1963. One other orchestra recorded it more than once.
How we know
Takes in our catalogue by the same orchestra in different years; the canon’s first orchestra is named.
La puñalada · Juan D'Arienzo · 1943 is a milonga.† La puñalada · Juan D'Arienzo · 1943 lasts 02:02.†
Credit
- Music
- Pintín Castellanos
- Lyrics
- Celedonio Flores
Source: TangoCloud catalogue
Every recording
16 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 32 more we know of
Choose A and B on two recordings to hear them one after the other.
- Juan D'ArienzoEarliest we holdInstrumental · RCA Victor · Apr 274 dances1937
- Juan D'ArienzoMost dancedInstrumental · RCA Victor · Nov 2381 dances1943
- Juan D'ArienzoInstrumental · RCA Victor · Sep 124 dances1951
- Juan D'ArienzoInstrumental · RCA Victor · Dec 102 dances1963
- Osvaldo FresedoInstrumental · Columbia · Dec 19Not danced on film yet1950
- Francisco CanaroInstrumental · Odeon · Jun 12Not danced on film yet1937
- Francisco CanaroInstrumental · Odeon · Oct 82 dances1946
- Francisco CanaroInstrumental · Odeon · Nov 29Not danced on film yet1951
- Cuarteto Típico Roberto FirpoOdeon · Jul 27Not danced on film yet1949
- José BassoInstrumental · Odeon · Sep 16Not danced on film yet1955
- Héctor VarelaInstrumental · Apr 18Not danced on film yet1967
- Donato RacciattiNot danced on film yet1971
- Nuevo Quinteto Real (Horacio Salgán)PhilipsNot danced on film yet1987
- Orquesta Escuela de TangoNot danced on film yet2013
- Los Solistas De D'ArienzoMusic HallNot danced on film yet1975
- Sexteto VisceralJul 1Not danced on film yet2014
- Alberto GómezNot in our catalogue1937
- Roberto FirpoNot in our catalogue1937
- -unspecified orchestra-Not in our catalogueAlberto Gómez · Dec 21937
- Juan CambareriNot in our catalogueAug 141948
Lyrics
Español · Underlined words are lunfardo: tap one for its meaning.
Mentan los que saben que un malevo muy de agallas y de fama bien sentada por el barrio de Palermo cayó un día taconeando prepotente a un bailongo donde había puntos bravos pa'l . Lo empezaron a mirar con un aire sobrador pero el mozo, sin chistar, a una puerta se arrimó. Los dejó sobrar. Los dejó decir. Y pa' no pelear tuvo que sufrir. Pero la pebeta más bonita, la que estaba más metida en el alma de los tauras, esa noche con la vista lo incitaba a que saliera a darles dique y a jugarse en un tango su cartel. Se cruzó un gran rencor y otro rencor a la luz de un farolito a querosén y un puñal que parte en dos un corazón porque así lo quiso aquella cruel mujer. Cuentan los que vieron que los guapos culebrearon con sus cuerpos y buscaron afanosos el descuido del contrario y en un claro de la guardia hundió el mozo de Palermo hasta el mango su .
English · machine translation
Those who know that a malevo of guts and of fame well seated in the neighborhood of Palermo fell one day heeled high heeled to a dancehall where there were brave stitches for the facon. They began to look at him with an air of sobriety but the waiter, without complaining, approached a door. He let them be left over. He let them say. And in order not to fight he had to suffer. But the prettiest the prettiest, the one who was most deeply in the soul of the tauras, that night with her eyes incited him to go out to give them dyke and to gamble in a tango his poster. They crossed a great rancor and another rancor in the light of a kerosene lantern and a dagger that splits a heart in two because that that cruel woman wanted it. Those who saw it say that the handsome they snaked with their bodies and searched eagerly the carelessness of the opponent and in a clearing of the guard sank the Palermo of Palermo up to the handle his facon.
Danced to it
Music from 1943 · danced on film 2010–2026
2010: 1, 2011: 3, 2012: 2, 2013: 3, 2014: 6, 2015: 7, 2016: 8, 2017: 5, 2018: 4, 2019: 4, 2022: 2, 2023: 5, 2024: 1, 2025: 6, 2026: 1
Where it is danced
The places our videos show it danced, by performances filmed there.
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.
- 1PacienciaJuan D'Arienzo, 1970 · danced together in 3 Performances
- 2No mientasJuan D'Arienzo, 1938 · danced together in 2 Performances
- 3La brujaJuan D'Arienzo, 1959 · danced together in 2 Performances
- 4LocaJuan D'Arienzo, 1942 · danced together in 2 Performances
- 5Desde el almaJuan D'Arienzo, 1935 · danced together in 2 Performances
- 6OlgaJuan D'Arienzo, 1956 · danced together in 2 Performances
Connected
From TangoTube's videos · our data
Danced at
- Viva La Pepa2 videos
- Nora's Tango Week1 video
- Łódź Tango Salon Festival1 video
- Russian Tango Congress1 video
- Tucson Tango Festival1 video
- Lisbon Tango Festival1 video
- England International Tango Festival1 video
- Antwerpen Tango Festival1 video
- Beirut International Tango Festival1 video
- Belgrade Tango Encuentro1 video
- Tango Ensueño1 video
- Istanbul-Express1 video
Danced by
- Virginia Gomez5 videos
- Christian Marquez5 videos
- Michael Nadtochi3 videos
- Florencia Labiano3 videos
- Hernan Rodriguez3 videos
- Eleonora Kalganova3 videos
- Viacheslav Ivanov2 videos
- Serkan Gökçesu2 videos
- Ricardo Oria2 videos
- Martin Maldonado2 videos
- Andrea Vighi2 videos
- Diego Amado2 videos
Data: recordings, facts and sources
Issued on record
Label, catalogue and matrix numbers of each record. A year is the year the record was issued. Source: TangoCloud catalogue.
- 1944
Victor 60-0301 · Juan D'Arienzo Y Su Orquesta Típica
Shellac · Argentina · side B
Recordings1
Recorded in Buenos AiresNov 23, 1943
Single sourceIn other catalogues7
tango.info · 00008637215729-1-14
Single sourcetango.info · 00828766032321-1-15
Single sourcetango.info · 00886975845026-1-4
Single sourcetango.info · 00886979033429-5-4
Single sourcetango.info · 02480002003113-1-15
Single sourcetango.info · 02480002031154-1-10
Single sourcetango.info · 02480002761228-2-1
Single sourceIs a1
Is a milonga
Single sourceDuration1
Duration 02:02
Single sourceAudio feature13
Audio feature 112.3
Single sourceAudio feature 0.949
Single sourceAudio feature D
Single sourceAudio feature major
Single sourceAudio feature 0.785
Single sourceAudio feature -18.4
Single sourceAudio feature 0.334
Single sourceAudio feature 0.322
Single sourceAudio feature 0.0
Single sourceAudio feature 0.018
Single sourceAudio feature 0.982
Single sourceAudio feature 113.2
Single sourceAudio feature step
Single sourceVocal1
Vocal instrumental
Single sourceListen
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