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Para qué te quiero tanto · Carlos Di Sarli · 1946

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

Para qué te quiero tanto · Carlos Di Sarli · 1946 was sung by Jorge Durán.† Para qué te quiero tanto · Carlos Di Sarli · 1946 is a tango.† Para qué te quiero tanto · Carlos Di Sarli · 1946 lasts 02:53.†

Credit

Music
Juan Larenza
Lyrics
Catulo Castillo

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Every recording

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

  1. Domingo FedericoEarliest we holdMost dancedCarlos Vidal · RCA Victor · Jul 19
    19 dances
    1945
  2. Alfredo De AngelisCarlos Dante · Odeon · Nov 13
    2 dances
    1945
  3. Carlos Di SarliJorge Durán · RCA Victor · May 3
    14 dances
    1946
  4. Gabriel ClausiNot in our catalogueRaúl Garcés · tango.info1946

Lyrics

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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.

Danced to it

Music from 1946 · danced on film 2010–2025

20102025
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

2010: 2, 2013: 2, 2014: 1, 2016: 1, 2017: 1, 2019: 2, 2020: 1, 2022: 1, 2023: 3, 2025: 1

Jonathan Saavedra & Clarisa AragónWorld Champions · Tango de Pista 2015Lisbon Tango Festival · 2025 · 3:33

Through the decades

  1. The 2010sDante Sánchez & Ines Muzzopappa2013
  2. The 2020sJonathan Saavedra & Clarisa AragónLisbon Tango Festival · 2025

Where it is danced

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

  1. Salón CanningPalermo
    1 performance

Connected

From TangoTube's videos · our data

Danced at

Data: recordings, facts and sources

Recordings by year

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

19451946

1945: 2, 1946: 1

Often paired with

Our data: filmed Performances on TangoTube that danced both, and DJs' public tandas on TangoCloud that hold both.

  1. La cicatrizJuan D'Arienzo, 1939 · danced together in 3 Performances
  2. Selección de tangosJuan D'Arienzo, 1972 · danced together in 2 Performances
  3. El estriboRodolfo Biagi, 1940 · danced together in 2 Performances

In other catalogues6

tango.info · 02480002101321-1-54

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tango.info · 07898659721659-1-16

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tango.info · 00828767207025-1-13

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tango.info · 02480002005100-1-15

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tango.info · 00743218369926-1-15

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tango.info · 02480002335498-2-7

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Singers1

Sung by Jorge Durán

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Is a1

Is a tango

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Duration1

Duration 02:53

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Audio feature12

Audio feature 117.5

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Audio feature 0.933

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Audio feature G

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Audio feature major

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Audio feature 0.699

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Audio feature -20.6

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Audio feature 0.428

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Audio feature 0.17

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Audio feature 0.384

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Audio feature 0.046

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Audio feature 0.0

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Audio feature 0.57

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Listen

  1. Para qué te quiero tantoDomingo Federico · Carlos Vidal1945

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