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Para qué te quiero tanto · Domingo Federico · 1945

Domingo FedericoCarlos VidaltangoRCA Victor
Music by Juan Larenza, lyrics by Catulo Castillo. 3 recordings in our catalogue, 1945–1946.

Who recorded it

Every version3

Earliest we hold: Domingo Federico, 1945

  1. Carlos Di SarliJorge Durán1946
  2. Alfredo De AngelisCarlos Dante1945
  3. Domingo FedericoCarlos Vidal1945

Pinned at 1945 · Golden Age 1935–1954 · Domingo Federico recordings indexed 1944–1969

Para qué te quiero tanto · Domingo Federico · 1945 was sung by Carlos Vidal.† Para qué te quiero tanto · Domingo Federico · 1945 is a tango.† Para qué te quiero tanto · Domingo Federico · 1945 lasts 02:34.†

The song

The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.

3 orchestras recorded it

35 Dances filmed to it

Who wrote it

Music
Juan Larenza
Words
Catulo Castillo
Written
not yet cited · help fill it
First played
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Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Lyrics

Español

Fue tu sombra oscura... Fue el castigo de tu adiós... Fue esta ausencia de ternura que me amarra a la tortura de tu voz... Qué fatal encanto me encadena a tu desdén, cuando grito hasta el quebranto... ¿Para qué te quiero tanto, para qué? Para qué te quiero tanto si no puedo ser feliz, si vivir es un espanto... si al morir te llevo en mí. ¡Tu amor!... ¡Tu amor!... traidor que una vez dejó entre mis cenizas sus brasas y se fue... ¡Tu amor!... ¡Tu amor!... Que clamo desde aquí, cuando oigo que tus risas se burlan de mí... ¡Cuánto mal me hiciste!... Llueve siempre en el ayer, con la lluvia mansa y triste de la tarde en que te fuiste sin volver... Fue tu sombra oscura... Fue el castigo de tu adiós... Y es la hiel de esta amargura que me amarra a la tortura de tu voz.

English · machine translation

It was your dark shadow... It was the punishment of your goodbye... It was this absence of tenderness that ties me to the torture of your voice... What a fatal charm chains me to your disdain.., when I cry out until I break... Why do I love you so much, why do I love you so much? Why do I love you so much if I can't be happy if living is a terror... if when I die I carry you in me. Your love!...your love!... traitor who once left among my ashes its embers and left... Your love! ...Your love!... That I cry out from here, when I hear your laughter mock me... How much evil you did to me!... It rains always in yesterday, with the gentle and sad rain of the afternoon when you left without coming back... It was your dark shadow... It was the punishment of your farewell... And it is the gall of this bitterness that binds me to the torture of your voice.

Every version

Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone

The catalogue holds 3 recordings of this song by 3 orchestras, 1945 to 1946.
1940
Recordings of Para qué te quiero tanto · Domingo Federico · 1945 by year, taller the more they are danced · 3 of 3 recordings carry a year · read Nov 2, 2026

3 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 1 more we know of

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

The leader is Domingo Federico, 1945, with 54% of the 35 filmed dances matched to a version of this song.

“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. Domingo FedericoEarliest we holdMost dancedPara qué te quiero tantoDomingo FedericoCarlos VidaltangoRCA Victor
    19 dances · 54%
    1945
  2. Carlos Di SarliPara qué te quiero tantoCarlos Di SarliJorge DurántangoRCA Victor
    14 dances · 40%
    1946
  3. Alfredo De AngelisPara qué te quiero tantoAlfredo De AngelisCarlos DantetangoOdeon
    2 dances · 6%
    1945
  4. Gabriel ClausiNot in our catalogueRaúl Garcés1946

One recording

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

Domingo Federico

Para qué te quiero tantoDomingo FedericoCarlos VidaltangoRCA Victor

Couples filmed dancing this recording · 19 Performances

Recorded the same day

What else Domingo Federico recorded on Jul 19, 1945.

  1. ZapatosDomingo FedericoCarlos Vidal, Oscar LarrocamilongaRCA Victor

Danced to it

Music from 1945 · danced on film 2013–2025

20132025
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

2013: 3, 2015: 1, 2016: 1, 2017: 1, 2018: 3, 2019: 1, 2023: 2, 2024: 1, 2025: 2

Where it is danced

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

  1. Salón La NacionalMonserrat
    2 performances
  2. DNI TangoAlmagro
    1 performance

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.

2 of 2 complete sets on film

  1. Muharrem Yılmazkaya and Nilay Yılmazkaya

    2019 · In the order danced: the video titles number them

    1. 1Para qué te quiero tantoDomingo Federico, 1945
    2. 2No me extrañaPedro Laurenz, 1940
    3. 3Dichas que vivíRodolfo Biagi, 1939
    4. 4Milonga bravaFrancisco Canaro, 1938
    Watch it on TangoTube
  2. Dante Sánchez and Roxana Suárez

    Milonga en lo de Balmaceda, 2025 · In the order danced: the video titles number them

    1. 1Para qué te quiero tantoDomingo Federico, 1945
    2. 2Tu boca mintióJuan D'Arienzo, 1951
    3. 3La vida es una milongaPedro Laurenz, 1941
    Watch it on TangoTube

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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. 1La vida es una milongaPedro Laurenz, 1941 · danced together in 2 Performances

Cite this

From TangoTube's videos · our data

Data: recordings, facts and sources

In other catalogues5

tango.info · 05204833007259-1-15

tango.info · 02480002043348-1-15

tango.info · 00743217777029-1-2

tango.info · 08427328131353-1-6

tango.info · 08427328134071-1-2

Singers1

Sung by Carlos Vidal

Is a1

Is a tango

Duration1

Duration 02:34

Audio feature14

Audio feature 123.0

Audio feature 0.941

Audio feature G

Audio feature minor

Audio feature 0.769

Audio feature -23.3

Audio feature 0.252

Audio feature 0.341

Audio feature 0.516

Audio feature 0.0

Audio feature 0.484

Audio feature 124.0

Audio feature 62.0

Audio feature step

Vocal1

Vocal sung

Listen

  1. Para qué te quiero tantoDomingo FedericoCarlos Vidal

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