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Así se baila el tango

Music by Elías Randal, lyrics by Elizardo Martínez Vilas. 3 recordings in our catalogue, 1942–1946.

Who recorded it

Every version3

Earliest we hold: Ricardo Tanturi, 1942

  1. Ricardo TanturiAlberto Castillo1942
  2. Francisco CanaroCarlos Roldán1943
  3. Enrique AlessioAlberto Castillo1946

Versions of Así se baila el tango recorded 1942–1946

Así se baila el tango was composed by Elías Randal.

Así se baila el tango is a tango.

Así se baila el tango was published in 1942.

The lyrics of Así se baila el tango are by Elizardo Martínez Vilas.

The song

The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.

3 orchestras recorded it

61 Dances filmed to it

Who wrote it

Music
Elías Randal
Words
Elizardo Martínez Vilas
Written
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First played
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Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Lyrics

Español

¡Qué saben los pitucos, lamidos y shushetas! ¡Qué saben lo que es tango, qué saben de compás! Aquí está la elegancia. ¡Qué pinta! ¡Qué silueta! ¡Qué porte! ¡Qué arrogancia! ¡Qué clase pa'bailar! Así se corta el césped mientras dibujo el ocho, para estas filigranas yo soy como un pintor. Ahora una corrida, una vuelta, una sentada... ¡Así se baila el tango, un tango de mi flor! Así se baila el tango, Sintiendo en la cara, la sangre que sube a cada compás, mientras el brazo, como una serpiente, se enrosca en el talle que se va a quebrar. Así se baila el tango, mezclando el aliento, cerrando los ojos pa' escuchar mejor, cómo los violines le cuentan al fueye por qué desde esa noche Malena no cantó. ¿Será mujer o junco, cuando hace una quebrada? ¿Tendrá resorte o cuerda para mover los pies? Lo cierto es que mi prenda, que mi "peor es nada", bailando es una fiera que me hace enloquecer... A veces me pregunto si no será mi sombra que siempre me persigue, o un ser sin voluntad. ¡Pero es que ya ha nacido así, pa' la milonga y, como yo, se muere, se muere por bailar!

English · machine translation

What do the pitucos, licks and shushetas know! What do they know about tango, what do they know about compás! Here is the elegance. What a look! What a silhouette! What poise! What arrogance! What class to dance! This is how the lawn is mowed while I draw the "ocho", for these watermarks I am like a painter. Now a run, a turn, a sit.... That's how you dance the tango, a tango of my flower! That's how you dance the tango, Feeling in your face, the blood that rises with each beat, while the arm, like a snake, coils around the waist that is about to break. This is how the tango is danced, mixing the breath, closing your eyes to listen better, how the violins tell the fueye why since that night Malena did not sing. Will she be a woman or a reed, when she makes a break? Will she have a spring or a rope to move her feet? What is certain is that my garment, that my "worse is nothing", dancing is a beast that makes me go crazy... Sometimes I wonder if it's not my shadow that always chases me, or a being without will. But it's just that he was born like that, pa' la milonga and, like me, he's dying, he's dying to dance!

Every version

Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone

The catalogue holds 3 recordings of this song by 3 orchestras, 1942 to 1946.
1940
Recordings of Así se baila el tango 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 · 4 more we know of

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

The leader is Ricardo Tanturi, 1942, with 98% of the 61 filmed dances matched to a version of this song.

1 more dance names this song but not which version, so no share counts it. “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. Ricardo TanturiEarliest we holdMost dancedAsí se baila el tangoRicardo TanturiAlberto CastillotangoRCA Victor
    60 dances · 98%
    1942
  2. Francisco CanaroAsí se baila el tangoFrancisco CanaroCarlos RoldántangoOdeon
    1 dance · 2%
    1943
  3. Enrique AlessioAsí se baila el tangoEnrique AlessioAlberto Castillotango
    No match yet
    1946
  4. Osvaldo RequenaNot in our catalogueAlberto Castillo1960
  5. Osvaldo RequenaNot in our catalogueAlberto Castillo1974
  6. Adriana VarelaNot in our catalogue
  7. -unspecified male-Not in our catalogue
All recordings of Así se baila el tango

One recording

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

Ricardo Tanturi

Así se baila el tangoRicardo TanturiAlberto CastillotangoRCA Victor

Couples filmed dancing this recording · 58 Performances

Danced to it

Music from 1942–1946 · danced on film 2007–2026

20072026
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

2007: 2, 2009: 2, 2010: 2, 2011: 1, 2012: 3, 2014: 2, 2015: 2, 2016: 3, 2017: 1, 2018: 1, 2019: 3, 2022: 1, 2023: 3, 2024: 3, 2026: 1

Where it is danced

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

  1. Club Sin RumboVilla Urquiza
    2 performances

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 4 complete sets on film

  1. Natalia Ochoa and Raphael Passaquay

    In the order danced: the video titles number them

    1. 1Tú, el cielo y túCarlos Di Sarli, 1944
    2. 2Así se baila el tangoRicardo Tanturi, 1942
    3. 3MandriaJuan D'Arienzo, 1939
    Watch it on TangoTube
  2. Giselle Anne and Gustavo Naveira

    In upload order: nobody has said the order danced

    1. 1Se va la vidaEdgardo Donato, 1950
    2. 2Así se baila el tangoRicardo Tanturi, 1942
    3. 3Una fijaCarlos Di Sarli, 1954
    Watch it on TangoTube
  3. Dana Zampieri and Sergey Kurkatov

    In upload order: nobody has said the order danced

    1. 1Así se baila el tangoRicardo Tanturi, 1942
    2. 2PatéticoOsvaldo Pugliese, 1948
    3. 3FarolOsvaldo Pugliese, 1943
    Watch it on TangoTube

Read more

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Data: recordings, facts and sources

Composer1

Composed by Elías Randal

In other catalogues4

TodoTango · tema/1724

tango.info · T0370191711

MusicBrainz · d9165e9c-8360-466a-a2f3-96e962a8e2c8source

ISWC · T-037.019.171-1source

Is a1

Is a Tango

Published1

Published 1942

Lyricist1

Lyrics by Elizardo Martínez Vilas

Listen

  1. Así se baila el tangoRicardo TanturiAlberto CastillotangoRCA Victor
  2. Así se baila el tangoFrancisco CanaroCarlos RoldántangoOdeon
  3. Así se baila el tangoEnrique AlessioAlberto Castillotango

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