Song
Malena · Quintin Verdu · 1950
Credit
- Music
- Lucio Demare
- Lyrics
- Homero Manzi
Source: TangoCloud catalogue
Every recording
15 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 31 more we know of
- Aníbal TroiloEarliest we holdFrancisco Fiorentino · RCA Victor · Jan 822 dances1942
- Lucio DemareMost dancedJuan Carlos Miranda · Odeon · Jan 2348 dances1942
- -unspecified guitars-Not in our catalogueAzucena Maizani1942
- Quintin VerduLucio Lamberto · Dec 12Not danced on film yet1950
- Lucio DemareHéctor Alvarado · Columbia · Sep 20Not danced on film yet1951
- Puglia-PedrozaFrancisco FiorentinoNot danced on film yet1951
- Aníbal TroiloRaúl Berón · TKNot danced on film yet1952
- Francisco CanaroJuan Carlos Rolon · Odeon · Aug 22 dances1955
- Lucio DemareInstrumental · Disc JockeyNot danced on film yet1957
- -unspecified orchestra-Not in our catalogueEdmundo Rivero1961
- Miguel CalóRaúl del Mar, Héctor Gagliardi, Roberto Luque · Odeon ColombiaNot danced on film yet1965
- Miguel CalóRoberto Luque · Odeon ColombiaNot danced on film yet1965
- Roberto GoyenecheInstrumental · Apr 1016 dances1968
- Lucio DemareNot in our catalogueInstrumental · Jul 301968
- Hugo DiazInstrumental12 dances1972
- Osvaldo PuglieseInstrumental · Odeon · Dec 1123 dances1974
- Rosanna FalascaNot in our catalogue1982
- Rosaura SilvestreNot in our catalogue1995
- Color Tango (Roberto Alvarez)Instrumental9 dances1998
- Alfredo MarcucciNot in our catalogueRamón Regueira1998
Lyrics
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Malena canta el tango como ninguna y en cada verso pone su corazón. A yuyo del suburbio su voz perfuma, Malena tiene pena de bandoneón. Tal vez allá en la infancia su voz de alondra tomó ese tono oscuro de callejón, o acaso aquel romance que sólo nombra cuando se pone triste con el alcohol. Malena canta el tango con voz de sombra, Malena tiene pena de bandoneón. Tu canción tiene el frío del último encuentro. Tu canción se hace amarga en la sal del recuerdo. Yo no sé si tu voz es la flor de una pena, sólo sé que al rumor de tus tangos, Malena, te siento más buena, más buena que yo. Tus ojos son oscuros como el olvido, tus labios apretados como el rencor, tus manos dos palomas que sienten frío, tus venas tienen sangre de bandoneón. Tus tangos son criaturas abandonadas que cruzan sobre el barro del callejón, cuando todas las puertas están cerradas y ladran los fantasmas de la canción. Malena canta el tango con voz quebrada, Malena tiene pena de bandoneón.
English · machine translation
Malena sings tango like no other and in each verse she puts her heart. Her voice is perfumed with the scent of the suburbs, Malena has the sorrow of a bandoneon. Maybe back in her childhood her lark's voice took that dark tone of the alley, or perhaps that romance that she only mentions when she gets sad with alcohol. Malena sings the tango with a shadowy voice, Malena has the sorrow of a bandoneon. Your song has the cold of the last encounter. Your song becomes bitter in the salt of memory. I do not know if your voice is the flower of a sorrow, I only know that to the murmur of your tangos, Malena, I feel you better, better than me. Your eyes are dark as oblivion, your lips tight as rancor, your hands two doves that feel cold, your veins have bandoneon blood. Your tangos are abandoned creatures that cross over the mud of the alley, when all the doors are closed and the ghosts of the song bark. Malena sings the tango with a broken voice, Malena has the sorrow of a bandoneon.
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Source: TangoCloud catalogue
1942: 2, 1950: 1, 1951: 2, 1952: 1, 1955: 1, 1957: 1, 1965: 2, 1968: 1, 1972: 1, 1974: 1, 1998: 1, 2001: 1
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