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Así se baila el tango · Ricardo Tanturi · 1942

Ricardo TanturiAlberto CastillotangoRCA Victor
Music by Elías Randal, lyrics by Elizardo Martínez Vilas. 3 recordings in our catalogue, 1942–1946.

Pinned at 1942 · Golden Age 1935–1954 · Ricardo Tanturi recordings indexed 1937–1965 · gold: With Castillo, 1939–1943

Así se baila el tango · Ricardo Tanturi · 1942 was sung by Alberto Castillo.† Así se baila el tango · Ricardo Tanturi · 1942 is a tango.† Así se baila el tango · Ricardo Tanturi · 1942 lasts 02:36.† Así se baila el tango · Ricardo Tanturi · 1942: More Tanturi/Castillo in the afterparty; Castillo's taunting verse reportedly started real fights.†

The work

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Music
Elías Randal
Lyrics
Elizardo Martínez Vilas

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Recordings

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The catalogue holds 3 recordings of this song by 3 orchestras, 1942 to 1946.

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1940
Recordings of Así se baila el tango · Ricardo Tanturi · 1942 by year, taller the more they are danced · 3 of 3 recordings carry a year · read Nov 1, 2026

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

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

  1. Ricardo TanturiEarliest we holdMost dancedAsí se baila el tangoRicardo TanturiAlberto CastillotangoRCA Victor
    60 dances
    1942
  2. Francisco CanaroAsí se baila el tangoFrancisco CanaroCarlos RoldántangoOdeon
    1 dance
    1943
  3. Enrique AlessioAsí se baila el tangoEnrique AlessioAlberto Castillotango
    Not danced on film yet
    1946
  4. Osvaldo RequenaNot in our catalogueAlberto Castillo1960
  5. Osvaldo RequenaNot in our catalogueAlberto Castillo1974
  6. Adriana VarelaNot in our catalogue
  7. -unspecified male-Not in our catalogue

Lyrics

Español

¡Qué saben los pitucos, lamidos y shushetas! ¡Qué saben lo que es tango, qué saben de compás! Aquí está la elegancia. ¡Qué pinta! ¡Qué silueta! ¡Qué porte! ¡Qué arrogancia! ¡Qué clase pa'bailar! Así se corta el césped mientras dibujo el ocho, para estas filigranas yo soy como un pintor. Ahora una corrida, una vuelta, una sentada... ¡Así se baila el tango, un tango de mi flor! Así se baila el tango, Sintiendo en la cara, la sangre que sube a cada compás, mientras el brazo, como una serpiente, se enrosca en el talle que se va a quebrar. Así se baila el tango, mezclando el aliento, cerrando los ojos pa' escuchar mejor, cómo los violines le cuentan al fueye por qué desde esa noche Malena no cantó. ¿Será mujer o junco, cuando hace una quebrada? ¿Tendrá resorte o cuerda para mover los pies? Lo cierto es que mi prenda, que mi "peor es nada", bailando es una fiera que me hace enloquecer... A veces me pregunto si no será mi sombra que siempre me persigue, o un ser sin voluntad. ¡Pero es que ya ha nacido así, pa' la milonga y, como yo, se muere, se muere por bailar!

English · machine translation

What do the pitucos, licks and shushetas know! What do they know about tango, what do they know about compás! Here is the elegance. What a look! What a silhouette! What poise! What arrogance! What class to dance! This is how the lawn is mowed while I draw the "ocho", for these watermarks I am like a painter. Now a run, a turn, a sit.... That's how you dance the tango, a tango of my flower! That's how you dance the tango, Feeling in your face, the blood that rises with each beat, while the arm, like a snake, coils around the waist that is about to break. This is how the tango is danced, mixing the breath, closing your eyes to listen better, how the violins tell the fueye why since that night Malena did not sing. Will she be a woman or a reed, when she makes a break? Will she have a spring or a rope to move her feet? What is certain is that my garment, that my "worse is nothing", dancing is a beast that makes me go crazy... Sometimes I wonder if it's not my shadow that always chases me, or a being without will. But it's just that he was born like that, pa' la milonga and, like me, he's dying, he's dying to dance!

The versions dancers use

Music from 1942 · danced on film 2007–2026

20072026
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

2007: 2, 2009: 2, 2010: 2, 2011: 1, 2012: 3, 2014: 2, 2015: 2, 2016: 3, 2017: 1, 2018: 1, 2019: 3, 2022: 1, 2023: 3, 2024: 3, 2026: 1

Where it is danced

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

  1. Club Sin RumboVilla Urquiza
    2 performances

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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.

  1. 1RemembranzaOsvaldo Pugliese, 1956 · danced together in 2 Performances
Data: recordings, facts and sources

In other catalogues28

tango.info · 02480002003724-1-19

tango.info · 00743214129524-1-1

tango.info · 02480002332039-2-1

tango.info · 02480002101222-2-58

tango.info · 00828768484227-1-1

tango.info · 02480002102366-1-13

tango.info · 00886979033429-6-14

tango.info · 08427328134118-1-14

tango.info · 02480002102571-1-21

tango.info · 08427328143042-1-14

tango.info · 07798067339517-1-3

tango.info · 00886975845125-1-14

tango.info · 00743217137120-1-13

tango.info · 00743216372126-1-15

tango.info · 02480002330349-2-2

tango.info · 02480002331506-1-1

tango.info · 02480002330356-2-1

tango.info · 08427328020640-1-14

tango.info · 08427328999021-4-17

tango.info · 08711539021283-2-14

tango.info · 09789507826634-1-7

tango.info · 08427328130004-1-11

tango.info · 02480002332541-2-3

tango.info · 02480002028123-1-7

tango.info · 08427328130486-1-15

tango.info · 00825083600325-4-7

tango.info · 02480002032144-1-7

tango.info · 02480002041924-1-19

Singers1

Sung by Alberto Castillo

Is a1

Is a tango

Duration1

Duration 02:36

Notes1

More Tanturi/Castillo in the afterparty; Castillo's taunting verse reportedly started real fights.

Vocal1

Vocal sung

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  1. Así se baila el tangoRicardo TanturiAlberto Castillo

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