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Malena · Osvaldo Pugliese · 1974

Osvaldo PuglieseinstrumentaltangoOdeon
Music by Lucio Demare, lyrics by Homero Manzi. 15 recordings in our catalogue, 1942–2001.

Who recorded it

Every version15

Earliest we hold: Aníbal Troilo, 1942

  1. Aníbal TroiloFrancisco Fiorentino · Raúl Berón19421952
  2. Osvaldo Pugliese1974
  3. Miguel CalóRaúl del Mar · Héctor Gagliardi …19651965
  4. Lucio DemareJuan Carlos Miranda · Héctor Alvarado194219511957
  5. Francisco CanaroJuan Carlos Rolon1955
  6. Color Tango (Roberto Alvarez)1998

Pinned at 1974 · Nuevo 1955–1984 · Osvaldo Pugliese recordings indexed 1943–1986 · gold: Late years, 1967–1995

Malena · Osvaldo Pugliese · 1974 is a tango.† Malena · Osvaldo Pugliese · 1974 lasts 03:21.†

The song

The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.

11 orchestras recorded it

132 Dances filmed to it

Who wrote it

Music
Lucio Demare
Words
Homero Manzi
Written
not yet cited · help fill it
First played
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Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Lyrics

These are the song’s words. This take is instrumental.

Español

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.

Every version

Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone

The catalogue holds 15 recordings of this song by 11 orchestras, 1942 to 2001.
1940’50’60’70’80’90’00
Recordings of Malena · Osvaldo Pugliese · 1974 by year, taller the more they are danced · 15 of 15 recordings carry a year · read Nov 2, 2026

15 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 31 more we know of

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

The leader is Lucio Demare, with 36% of the 132 filmed dances matched to a version of this song.

19 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.

  1. Osvaldo PuglieseMalenaOsvaldo PuglieseinstrumentaltangoOdeon
    23 dances · 17%
    1974
  2. Roberto GoyenecheMalenaRoberto Goyenechesungtango
    16 dances · 12%
    1968
  3. Hugo DiazMalenaHugo Diaztango
    12 dances · 9%
    1972
  4. Color Tango (Roberto Alvarez)MalenaColor Tango (Roberto Alvarez)tango
    9 dances · 7%
    1998
  5. Francisco CanaroMalenaFrancisco CanaroJuan Carlos RolontangoOdeon
    2 dances · 2%
    1955
  6. Quintin VerduMalenaQuintin VerduLucio Lambertotango
    No match yet
    1950
  7. Puglia-PedrozaMalenaPuglia-PedrozaFrancisco Fiorentinotango
    No match yet
    1951
  8. Horacio Salgan y Ubaldo De LioMalenaHoracio Salgan y Ubaldo De LiotangoMelopea
    No match yet
    2001
  9. -unspecified guitars-Not in our catalogueAzucena Maizani1942
  10. -unspecified orchestra-Not in our catalogueEdmundo Rivero1961
  11. Lucio DemareNot in our catalogueJul 301968
  12. Rosanna FalascaNot in our catalogue1982
  13. Rosaura SilvestreNot in our catalogue1995
  14. Alfredo MarcucciNot in our catalogueRamón Regueira1998
  15. Ensemble HyperionNot in our catalogueAntonella Ruggiero · Jul 212010
  16. Agustín IrustaNot in our catalogue
  17. Azucena MaizaniNot in our catalogue

One recording

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

Osvaldo Pugliese

MalenaOsvaldo PuglieseinstrumentaltangoOdeon

Couples filmed dancing this recording · 22 Performances

Recorded the same day

What else Osvaldo Pugliese recorded on Dec 11, 1974.

  1. CallejeraOsvaldo PuglieseAbel CórdobatangoOdeon

Danced to it

Music from 1974 · danced on film 2012–2026

20122026
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

2012: 1, 2016: 4, 2022: 3, 2023: 4, 2024: 1, 2026: 3

Where it is danced

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

  1. Espacio Riobamba (Club Castel)Balvanera
    1 performance
  2. MarabúSan Nicolás
    1 performance
  3. Sunderland ClubVilla Urquiza
    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.

3 of 3 complete sets on film

  1. Pancho Martinez Pey and Roxana Suárez

    2023 · In the order danced: the video titles number them

    1. 1Si tú quisierasMiguel Caló, 1943
    2. 2MalenaOsvaldo Pugliese, 1974
    3. 3Entre pitada y pitadaCarlos Di Sarli, 1942
    4. 4El viejo valsFrancisco Rotundo, 1951
    Watch it on TangoTube
  2. Facundo Piñero and Vanesa Villalba

    Milonga Malena · In the order danced: the video titles number them

    1. 1MalenaOsvaldo Pugliese, 1974
    2. 2Dichas que vivíRodolfo Biagi, 1939
    3. 3La yumbaOsvaldo Pugliese, 1952
    4. 4De antañoJuan D'Arienzo, 1939
    Watch it on TangoTube
  3. Cristina Sosa and Daniel Nacucchio

    2023 · In the order danced: the video titles number them

    1. 1MalenaOsvaldo Pugliese, 1974
    2. 2LocaJuan D'Arienzo, 1942
    3. 3Campo afueraRodolfo Biagi, 1939
    4. 4Ojos negrosCarlos Di Sarli, 1945
    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. 1Loca de amorRodolfo Biagi, 1938 · danced together in 2 Performances

Cite this

From TangoTube's videos · our data

Data: recordings, facts and sources

In other catalogues4

tango.info · 00094637195628-1-17

tango.info · 00724383785728-1-17

tango.info · 02480002027935-1-5

tango.info · 02480002333210-2-2

Is a1

Is a tango

Duration1

Duration 03:21

Vocal1

Vocal instrumental

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  1. MalenaAníbal TroiloFrancisco Fiorentino

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