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Bien criolla y bien porteña

Music by Armando Pontier, lyrics by Homero Expósito. 2 recordings in our catalogue, 1945–1945.

Bien criolla y bien porteña was composed by Armando Pontier.

Bien criolla y bien porteña is a milonga.

Bien criolla y bien porteña was published in 1945.

The lyrics of Bien criolla y bien porteña are by Homero Expósito.

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Credit

Music
Armando Pontier
Lyrics
Homero Expósito

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Every recording

2 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 6 more we know of

1940

Choose A and B on two recordings to hear them one after the other.

  1. Miguel CalóEarliest we holdMost dancedRaúl Iriarte, Luis Tolosa · Odeon · Mar 9
    5 dances
    1945
  2. Ricardo TanturiEnrique Campos · RCA Victor · Jul 13
    4 dances
    1945
  3. Alfredo MalerbaNot in our catalogueLibertad Lamarque · Jul 231945
  4. Armando PontierNot in our catalogueRubén Juárez1972
  5. Rosanna FalascaNot in our catalogue1982
  6. Floreal RuízNot in our catalogue
  7. Mercedes SimoneNot in our catalogue
  8. Orlando TripodiNot in our catalogueRosanna Falasca

Lyrics

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Para cantarle al amor no se precisa experiencia: se forma un nido entre dos y lo demás... va sin letra. Que así empecé esta milonga bien criolla y bien porteña, para cantarle al amor que sólo siento por ella. Ella es triste como un tango, ella tiene gusto a menta y es sencilla como el lazo que me anuda a su tristeza. Ella es como el mate amargo, bien criolla y bien porteña, y es acorde en la guitarra. ¡Qué milonga la canción de la esperanza que el amor hace canción! Para cantarle al amor no hay que mirar las estrellas, hay que ser hombre de honor y lo demás... no interesa, que al terminar la milonga bien criolla y bien porteña, para cantarle al amor yo canto de esta manera.

English · machine translation

To sing to love no experience is necessary: a nest is formed between two and the rest... goes without lyrics. That's how I started this milonga very creole and very porteña, to sing to the love that I only feel for her. She is sad like a tango, she tastes like mint and she is as simple as the ribbon that ties me to her sadness. She is like bitter mate, very creole and very porteña, and she is chord in the guitar. What a milonga milonguera the song of hope that love makes song! To sing to love you don't have to look at the stars you have to be a man of honor and the rest... it doesn't matter, that at the end of the milonga well criolla and well porteña, to sing to love I sing this way.

Danced to it

Music from 1945 · danced on film 2012–2025

20122025
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

2012: 1, 2014: 1, 2015: 1, 2025: 1

Carlitos Espinoza & Noelia Hurtado2015 · 2:39

Through the decades

  1. The 2010sCarlitos Espinoza & Noelia Hurtado2015
  2. The 2020sAlvaro Bravo & Simin Ogur2025
Data: recordings, facts and sources

Composer1

Composed by Armando Pontier

Supported · 2

In other catalogues3

TodoTango · tema/335

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tango.info · T0370224853

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MusicBrainz · 76e85d21-aec8-46d7-b590-4b4754d518fasource

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Is a1

Is a Milonga

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Published1

Published 1945

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Lyricist1

Lyrics by Homero Expósito

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Used in lyric1

milonguera — used in lyric Bien criolla y bien porteña

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Listen

  1. Bien criolla y bien porteñaMiguel Caló · Raúl Iriarte, Luis Tolosa1945
  2. Bien criolla y bien porteñaRicardo Tanturi · Enrique Campos1945

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