The Cabeceo

Skip to content

Song

Bien Pulenta

Music by Juan D'Arienzo, Hector Varela, lyrics by Carlos Waiss. 2 recordings in our catalogue, 1950–1950.

Who recorded it

Every version2

Earliest we hold: Juan D'Arienzo, 1950

  1. Juan D'ArienzoAlberto Echagüe1950
  2. Francisco RotundoCarlos Roldán1950

Versions of Bien Pulenta recorded 1950

Bien Pulenta is a tango.

Bien Pulenta was published in 1950.

Bien Pulenta was composed by Héctor Varela.

The lyrics of Bien Pulenta are by Carlos Waiss.

Linked to Bien Pulenta (used in lyric): purrete.

The song

The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.

2 orchestras recorded it

227 Dances filmed to it

Who wrote it

Music
Juan D'Arienzo, Hector Varela
Words
Carlos Waiss
Written
not yet cited · help fill it
First played
not yet cited · help fill it

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Lyrics

Español · Underlined words are lunfardo: tap one for its meaning.

Estoy hecho en el ambiente de muchachos calaveras, entre guapos y malandras me hice taura pa' tallar, me he jugado sin dar pifia en bulines y carpetas, me enseñaron a ser vivo muchos vivos de verdad. No me gustan los boliches que las copas charlan mucho y entre tragos se deschava lo que nunca se pensó. Yo conozco tantos hombres que eran vivos y eran duchos y en la cruz de cuatro copas se comieron un garrón. Yo nunca fui shusheta de pinta y fulería, y sé lo que es jugarse la suerte a una baraja si tengo un . Le escapo a ese fulero y confidente de aquéllos que se sienten amigos de ocasión. Yo soy de aquellas horas que laten dentro 'el pecho, de minas seguidoras, de hombres bien derechos tallando tras cartón. Siempre sé tener conducta por más contra que me busquen, aunque muchos se embalurden que soy punto pa' currar, ando chivo con la yuta porque tengo mi rebusque y me aguanto cualquier copo con las cartas que me dan. No me gusta avivar giles que después se me hacen contra, acostumbro escuchar mucho, nunca fui conversador. Y aprendí desde que el que nace calavera no se tuerce con la mala, ni tampoco es batidor.

English · machine translation

I am made in the environment of calaveras boys, between handsome and bad boys I became taura pa' tallar, I've played without a foul in bulines and folders, I was taught to be alive by many real live ones. I don't like the bowling alleys where the drinks chatter a lot and in between drinks you can undo what you never thought of. I know so many men who were alive and were skillful and in the cross of four drinks they ate a garrón. I was never shusheta of pint and fulería, and I know what it is to gamble the luck on a deck of cards if I have a metejón. I escape from that shamuyo and confidant of those who feel they are friends of occasion. I am of those hours that beat inside 'the chest, of follower mines, of straight men carving after cardboard. I always know how to behave no matter how hard they look for me, even though many people think I'm a hard-working man, I go along with the yuta because I've got my own way of getting by and I can put up with any kind of trouble with the cards they give me. I don't like to stir up giles who later turn against me, I'm used to listen a lot, I was never a conversationalist. And I learned since I was a child that he who is born a skull does not twist with the bad, nor is he a beater.

Every version

Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone

The catalogue holds 2 recordings of this song by 2 orchestras, 1950 to 1950.
1950
Recordings of Bien Pulenta by year, taller the more they are danced · 2 of 2 recordings carry a year · read Nov 2, 2026

2 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube

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

The leader is Juan D'Arienzo, 1950, with 99% of the 227 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. Juan D'ArienzoEarliest we holdMost dancedBien PulentaJuan D'ArienzoAlberto EchagüetangoRCA Victor
    226 dances · 99%
    1950
  2. Francisco RotundoBien PulentaFrancisco RotundoCarlos RoldántangoOdeon
    1 dance · <1%
    1950
All recordings of Bien Pulenta

One recording

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

Juan D'Arienzo

Bien PulentaJuan D'ArienzoAlberto EchagüetangoRCA Victor

Couples filmed dancing this recording · 221 Performances

Danced to it

Music from 1950 · danced on film 2008–2025

20082025
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

2008: 4, 2009: 6, 2010: 10, 2011: 13, 2012: 11, 2013: 10, 2014: 8, 2015: 18, 2016: 15, 2017: 12, 2018: 10, 2019: 14, 2020: 1, 2021: 1, 2022: 1, 2023: 7, 2024: 11, 2025: 7

Where it is danced

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

  1. Espacio Riobamba (Club Castel)Balvanera
    3 performances
  2. Salón La NacionalMonserrat
    3 performances
  3. Salón CanningPalermo
    2 performances
  4. Salón El Pial (La Baldosa)Flores
    2 performances
  5. Sunderland ClubVilla Urquiza
    2 performances
  6. Club Empleados de RivadaviaVélez Sarsfield
    1 performance
  7. Club GricelSan Cristóbal
    1 performance
  8. Confitería IdealSan Nicolás
    1 performance
  9. Cátulo TangoBalvanera
    1 performance
  10. Círculo TrovadorVicente López
    1 performance
  11. MarabúSan Nicolás
    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 19 complete sets on film

  1. Andrea Misse and Javier Rodríguez

    2011 · In the order danced: the video titles number them

    1. 1Bien PulentaJuan D'Arienzo, 1950
    2. 2La cicatrizJuan D'Arienzo, 1939
    3. 3De floreoOsvaldo Pugliese, 1950
    4. 4Indio mansoCarlos Di Sarli, 1958
    Watch it on TangoTube
  2. John Zabala and Maria Filali

    In upload order: nobody has said the order danced

    1. 1IntimaTípica Victor, 1940
    2. 2Bien PulentaJuan D'Arienzo, 1950
    3. 3Igual que una sombraRicardo Tanturi, 1945
    4. 4El espianteOsvaldo Fresedo, 1933
    Watch it on TangoTube
  3. Javier Rodríguez and Noelia Barsi

    In upload order: nobody has said the order danced

    1. 1DespuésMiguel Caló, 1944
    2. 2Bien PulentaJuan D'Arienzo, 1950
    3. 3Gallo ciegoOsvaldo Pugliese, 1959
    4. 4La cicatrizJuan D'Arienzo, 1939
    Watch it on TangoTube

In their words

  • Las grabaciones de D'Arienzo con Echagüe, en la época del lunfardo, la mayoría son sin reverberancia, bien pulenta, toda esa época.

    Horacio Godoy "El Pebete" · HORACIO GODOY "EL PEBETE"... Tengo una pregunta para vos (por Pepa Palazon) -Video 03/03

    open at 32:16

Read more

every sentence cites a published fact

Data: recordings, facts and sources

In other catalogues3

TodoTango · tema/1218

tango.info · T0370155499

MusicBrainz · af6f9b47-ca14-4fa3-b124-1ebf80f9074bsource

Is a1

Is a Tango

Published1

Published 1950

Composer1

Composed by Héctor Varela

Lyricist1

Lyrics by Carlos Waiss

Used in lyric1

purrete — used in lyric Bien Pulenta

Listen

  1. Bien PulentaJuan D'ArienzoAlberto EchagüetangoRCA Victor
  2. Bien PulentaFrancisco RotundoCarlos RoldántangoOdeon

Ask Tangopedia

Answers only from cited facts, each with its source.