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La puñalada · Francisco Canaro · 1937

Music by Pintín Castellanos, lyrics by Celedonio Flores. 16 recordings in our catalogue, 1937–2014.
1937: 2 · danced 4 times1943: 1 · danced 80 times1946: 1 · danced 2 times1949: 1 · danced 0 times1950: 1 · danced 0 times1951: 2 · danced 4 times1955: 1 · danced 0 times1963: 1 · danced 2 times1967: 1 · danced 0 times1971: 1 · danced 0 times1975: 1 · danced 0 times1987: 1 · danced 0 times2013: 1 · danced 0 times2014: 1 · danced 0 times
1937’50’60’70’80’90’002014
records madedanced on film, by the record’s year· our catalogue

1937: 2, 4; 1943: 1, 80; 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

  1. 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 · Francisco Canaro · 1937 is a milonga.† La puñalada · Francisco Canaro · 1937 lasts 03:07.†

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

1930’40’50’60’70’80’90’00’10

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

  1. Juan D'ArienzoEarliest we holdInstrumental · RCA Victor · Apr 27
    4 dances
    1937
  2. Juan D'ArienzoMost dancedInstrumental · RCA Victor · Nov 23
    80 dances
    1943
  3. Juan D'ArienzoInstrumental · RCA Victor · Sep 12
    4 dances
    1951
  4. Juan D'ArienzoInstrumental · RCA Victor · Dec 10
    2 dances
    1963
  5. Osvaldo FresedoInstrumental · Columbia · Dec 19
    Not danced on film yet
    1950
  6. Francisco CanaroInstrumental · Odeon · Jun 12
    Not danced on film yet
    1937
  7. Francisco CanaroInstrumental · Odeon · Oct 8
    2 dances
    1946
  8. Francisco CanaroInstrumental · Odeon · Nov 29
    Not danced on film yet
    1951
  9. Cuarteto Típico Roberto FirpoInstrumental · Odeon · Jul 27
    Not danced on film yet
    1949
  10. José BassoInstrumental · Odeon · Sep 16
    Not danced on film yet
    1955
  11. Héctor VarelaInstrumental · Apr 18
    Not danced on film yet
    1967
  12. Donato RacciattiInstrumental
    Not danced on film yet
    1971
  13. Nuevo Quinteto Real (Horacio Salgán)Instrumental · Philips
    Not danced on film yet
    1987
  14. Orquesta Escuela de TangoInstrumental
    Not danced on film yet
    2013
  15. Los Solistas De D'ArienzoInstrumental · Music Hall
    Not danced on film yet
    1975
  16. Sexteto VisceralInstrumental · Jul 1
    Not danced on film yet
    2014
  17. Alberto GómezNot in our catalogue1937
  18. Roberto FirpoNot in our catalogueInstrumental1937
  19. -unspecified orchestra-Not in our catalogueAlberto Gómez · Dec 21937
  20. Juan CambareriNot in our catalogueInstrumental · Aug 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.

Data: recordings, facts and sources

In other catalogues4

tango.info · 00724347388620-1-16

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tango.info · 02480002040880-1-10

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tango.info · 02480002103011-1-6

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tango.info · 02480002742609-1-1

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Is a milonga

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Duration1

Duration 03:07

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Audio feature11

Audio feature 132.5

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Audio feature 0.951

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Audio feature D

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Audio feature 0.83

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Audio feature -23.2

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Audio feature 0.398

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Audio feature 0.393

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Audio feature 0.0

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Audio feature 0.004

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Audio feature 0.996

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