Song
Malena · Lucio Demare · 1942
Lucio DemareJuan Carlos MirandatangoOdeonWho recorded it
Every version15Earliest we hold: Aníbal Troilo, 1942
Pinned at 1942 · Golden Age 1935–1954 · Lucio Demare recordings indexed 1938–1957
Malena · Lucio Demare · 1942 was sung by Juan Carlos Miranda.†† Malena · Lucio Demare · 1942 is a tango.† Malena · Lucio Demare · 1942 lasts 02:55.† Malena · Lucio Demare · 1942: Demare's own version of the song he wrote, played in the afterparty to compare with Troilo's.†
The song
The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.
11 orchestras recorded it
132 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
15 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 132 filmed dances matched to a version of this song.
19 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.
- Osvaldo PuglieseMalenaOsvaldo PuglieseinstrumentaltangoOdeon23 dances · 17%1974
- Roberto GoyenecheMalenaRoberto Goyenechesungtango16 dances · 12%1968
- Hugo DiazMalenaHugo Diaztango12 dances · 9%1972
- Color Tango (Roberto Alvarez)MalenaColor Tango (Roberto Alvarez)tango9 dances · 7%1998
- Francisco CanaroMalenaFrancisco CanaroJuan Carlos RolontangoOdeon2 dances · 2%1955
- Quintin VerduMalenaQuintin VerduLucio LambertotangoNo match yet1950
- Puglia-PedrozaMalenaPuglia-PedrozaFrancisco FiorentinotangoNo match yet1951
- Horacio Salgan y Ubaldo De LioMalenaHoracio Salgan y Ubaldo De LiotangoMelopeaNo match yet2001
- -unspecified guitars-Not in our catalogueAzucena Maizani1942
- -unspecified orchestra-Not in our catalogueEdmundo Rivero1961
- Lucio DemareNot in our catalogueJul 301968
- Rosanna FalascaNot in our catalogue1982
- Rosaura SilvestreNot in our catalogue1995
- Alfredo MarcucciNot in our catalogueRamón Regueira1998
- Ensemble HyperionNot in our catalogueAntonella Ruggiero · Jul 212010
- Agustín IrustaNot in our catalogue
- Azucena MaizaniNot in our catalogue
One recording
A dated take, with its sound and the couples dancing it.
Lucio Demare
MalenaLucio DemareJuan Carlos MirandatangoOdeonCouples filmed dancing this recording · 35 Performances
Recorded the same day
What else Lucio Demare recorded on Jan 23, 1942.
Danced to it
Music from 1942 · danced on film 2010–2026
2010: 1, 2011: 1, 2013: 2, 2014: 2, 2015: 1, 2017: 2, 2018: 1, 2019: 4, 2020: 1, 2023: 1, 2024: 1, 2026: 1
Filmed sets
One Couple dancing three or four songs at one Occasion, every song known. What was danced on film, not what a DJ played.
The one complete set on film
Marina Teves and Rodrigo Videla
Milonga Malena, 2023 · In the order danced: the video titles number them
- 1Una tarde cualquieraMiguel Caló, 1945
- 2PacienciaJuan D'Arienzo, 1970
- 3MalenaLucio Demare, 1942
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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.
- 1Mala juntaColor Tango (Roberto Alvarez), 1998 · danced together in 3 Performances
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Connected
From TangoTube's videos · our data
Danced at
- Milonga Malena1 video
Danced by
- Julia Gorin3 videos
- Jonatan Baez3 videos
- Andy Delfino2 videos
- Ayelen Urrutia2 videos
- Elvira Malishevskaya2 videos
- Martin Vicente2 videos
- Leandro Nikitoff2 videos
- Claudio Parenti2 videos
- Ozgur Demir1 video
- Katia Diamond1 video
- Giuliano Gambarelli1 video
- Moscato Luna1 video
Data: recordings, facts and sources
Singers1
Sung by Juan Carlos MirandaJan 23, 1942
In other catalogues19
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tango.info · 08711539021283-1-3
tango.info · 00724352330720-1-9
tango.info · 00724352913220-1-1
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tango.info · 02480002007517-1-6
tango.info · 02480002028529-1-14
tango.info · 02480002042952-1-7
tango.info · 02480002102953-1-7
tango.info · 02480002117124-1-9
tango.info · 02480002124429-1-2
tango.info · 02480002705130-1-1
tango.info · 04024236200429-1-7
tango.info · 05099964048024-1-2
tango.info · 07798108080545-1-1
tango.info · 08427328130103-1-9
tango.info · 08427328133029-1-4
tango.info · 08427328143042-1-2
tango.info · 08427328995191-1-2
Is a1
Is a tango
Duration1
Duration 02:55
Audio feature15
Audio feature 126.0
Audio feature 0.949
Audio feature A
Audio feature major
Audio feature 0.741
Audio feature -21.7
Audio feature 0.429
Audio feature 0.353
Audio feature 0.385
Audio feature 0.009
Audio feature 0.0
Audio feature 0.607
Audio feature 125.3
Audio feature 62.6
Audio feature step
Notes1
Demare's own version of the song he wrote, played in the afterparty to compare with Troilo's.
Vocal1
Vocal sung
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