Song
Desde el alma · Juan D'Arienzo · 1935
Juan D'ArienzoinstrumentalvalsRCA VictorWho recorded it
Every version15Earliest we hold: Roberto Firpo, 1927
Pinned at 1935 · Golden Age 1935–1954 · Juan D'Arienzo recordings indexed 1928–1975 · 7 applied periods in gold
Desde el alma · Juan D'Arienzo · 1935 is a vals.† Desde el alma · Juan D'Arienzo · 1935 lasts 03:02.† Desde el alma · Juan D'Arienzo · 1935: D'Arienzo's very first recording, a waltz rather than a tango, played instrumentally as most bands did at the time.†
The song
The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.
13 orchestras recorded it
299 Dances filmed to it
Who wrote it
- Music
- Rosita Melo
- Words
- Homero Manzi
- Written
- not yet cited · help fill it
- First played
- not yet cited · help fill it
Source: TangoCloud catalogue
Lyrics
These are the song’s words. This take is instrumental.
Español
Alma, si tanto te han herido, ¿por qué te niegas al olvido? ¿Por qué prefieres llorar lo que has perdido, buscar lo que has querido, llamar lo que murió? Vives inútilmente triste y sé que nunca mereciste pagar con penas la culpa de ser buena, tan buena como fuiste por amor. Fue lo que empezó una vez, lo que después dejó de ser. Lo que al final por culpa de un error fue noche amarga del corazón. ¡Deja esas cartas! ¡Vuelve a tu antigua ilusión! Junto al dolor que abre una herida llega la vida trayendo otro amor. Alma, no entornes tu ventana al sol feliz de la mañana. No desesperes, que el sueño más querido es el que más nos hiere, es el que duele más. Vives inútilmente triste y sé que nunca mereciste pagar con penas la culpa de ser buena, tan buena como fuiste por amor.
English · machine translation
Soul, if you have been hurt so much, why do you refuse to forget? why do you refuse to forget? Why do you prefer to mourn what you have lost, seek what you have loved, to call what has died? You live uselessly sad and I know you never deserved to pay with sorrows the guilt of being good, as good as you were for love. It was what once began, what then ceased to be. What in the end because of a mistake was a bitter night of the heart. Leave those cards! Go back to your old illusion! Next to the pain that opens a wound comes life brings another love. Soul, do not close your window to the happy morning sun. Do not despair, that the dearest dream is the one that hurts us the most, it is the one that hurts the most. You live uselessly sad and I know you never deserved to pay with sorrows the guilt of being good, as good as you were for love.
Every version
Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone
15 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 23 more we know of
a version people dance tono Dances matched yet: something to listen to
The leader is Osvaldo Pugliese, with 61% of the 299 filmed dances matched to a version of this song.
15 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.
- Color Tango (Roberto Alvarez)Desde el almaColor Tango (Roberto Alvarez)vals56 dances · 19%2003
- Juan D'ArienzoDesde el almaJuan D'ArienzoinstrumentalvalsRCA Victor39 dances · 13%1935
- Quinteto Pirincho (Francisco Canaro)Desde el almaQuinteto Pirincho (Francisco Canaro)valsOdeon4 dances · 1%1952
- Ricardo TanturiDesde el almaRicardo TanturiinstrumentalvalsRCA Victor3 dances · 1%1944
- Roberto FirpoEarliest we holdDesde el almaRoberto FirpoinstrumentalvalsOdeonNo match yet1927
- Cuarteto Típico Roberto FirpoDesde el almaCuarteto Típico Roberto FirpovalsNo match yet1947
- José SalaDesde el almaJosé SalaAlfredo BelusivalsColumbiaNo match yet1953
- Horacio SalganDesde el almaHoracio SalganvalsTKNo match yet1953
- Juan de Dios FilibertoDesde el almaJuan de Dios FilibertovalsNo match yet1959
- Los Solistas De D'ArienzoDesde el almaLos Solistas De D'ArienzovalsMusic HallNo match yet1987
- Sexteto VisceralDesde el almaSexteto VisceralvalsNo match yet2014
- Nelly OmarNot in our catalogue1928
- Roberto FirpoNot in our catalogue1937
- Juan CambareriNot in our catalogueAug 101948
- Carlos DemariaNot in our catalogueRoberto Cortés · Oct 101950
- Quinteto Pirincho, dir. Francisco CanaroNot in our catalogueJul 151952
- Julia VidalNot in our catalogue1954
- Horacio SalgánNot in our catalogue1954
One recording
A dated take, with its sound and the couples dancing it.
Juan D'Arienzo
Desde el almaJuan D'ArienzoinstrumentalvalsRCA VictorCouples filmed dancing this recording · 36 Performances
Recorded the same day
What else Juan D'Arienzo recorded on Jul 2, 1935.
Danced to it
Music from 1935 · danced on film 2012–2025
2012: 3, 2015: 5, 2016: 4, 2017: 1, 2019: 3, 2020: 1, 2022: 1, 2023: 2, 2024: 2, 2025: 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.
3 of 6 complete sets on film
Joanna Jabłońska and Piotr Bochiński
2023 · In the order danced: the video titles number them
- 1Carnaval de mi barrioEdgardo Donato, 1939
- 2UnoJuan D'Arienzo, 1943
- 3Desde el almaJuan D'Arienzo, 1935
- 4CacareandoTípica Victor, 1933
Maxi Copello and Raquel Makow
2019 · In the order danced: the video titles number them
- 1Nido gauchoCarlos Di Sarli, 1955
- 2PacienciaJuan D'Arienzo, 1970
- 3Desde el almaJuan D'Arienzo, 1935
Lucas Ameijeras and Yanina Bassi
2016 · In upload order: nobody has said the order danced
- 1LocaJuan D'Arienzo, 1942
- 2Desde el almaJuan D'Arienzo, 1935
- 3La puñaladaJuan D'Arienzo, 1943
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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.
- 1PacienciaJuan D'Arienzo, 1970 · danced together in 2 Performances
- 2LocaJuan D'Arienzo, 1942 · danced together in 2 Performances
- 3La puñaladaJuan D'Arienzo, 1943 · danced together in 2 Performances
- 4El pañuelitoOsvaldo Pugliese, 1959 · danced together in 2 Performances
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Data: recordings, facts and sources
In other catalogues12
tango.info · 00229001001827-1-1
tango.info · 00743215827627-1-13
tango.info · 00743216334223-1-5
tango.info · 02480002003014-1-1
tango.info · 02480002031147-1-5
tango.info · 02480002331421-1-2
tango.info · 02480002331575-1-3
tango.info · 02480002332022-1-3
tango.info · 02480002337065-1-1
tango.info · 02480002760511-1-1
tango.info · 04024236202379-1-1
tango.info · 07798108080453-1-11
Is a1
Is a vals
Duration1
Duration 03:02
Audio feature12
Audio feature 105.5
Audio feature 0.953
Audio feature B
Audio feature minor
Audio feature 0.621
Audio feature -20.8
Audio feature 0.392
Audio feature 0.433
Audio feature 0.077
Audio feature 0.138
Audio feature 0.0
Audio feature 0.785
Notes1
D'Arienzo's very first recording, a waltz rather than a tango, played instrumentally as most bands did at the time.
Vocal1
Vocal instrumental
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