Song
Bien Pulenta
Who recorded it
Every version2Earliest we hold: Juan D'Arienzo, 1950
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
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.
One recording
A dated take, with its sound and the couples dancing it.
Couples filmed dancing this recording · 221 Performances
Danced to it
Music from 1950 · danced on film 2008–2025
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.
- Espacio Riobamba (Club Castel)Balvanera3 performances
- Salón La NacionalMonserrat3 performances
- Salón CanningPalermo2 performances
- Salón El Pial (La Baldosa)Flores2 performances
- Sunderland ClubVilla Urquiza2 performances
- Club Empleados de RivadaviaVélez Sarsfield1 performance
- Club GricelSan Cristóbal1 performance
- Confitería IdealSan Nicolás1 performance
- Cátulo TangoBalvanera1 performance
- Círculo TrovadorVicente López1 performance
- MarabúSan Nicolás1 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
Andrea Misse and Javier Rodríguez
2011 · In the order danced: the video titles number them
- 1Bien PulentaJuan D'Arienzo, 1950
- 2La cicatrizJuan D'Arienzo, 1939
- 3De floreoOsvaldo Pugliese, 1950
- 4Indio mansoCarlos Di Sarli, 1958
John Zabala and Maria Filali
In upload order: nobody has said the order danced
- 1IntimaTípica Victor, 1940
- 2Bien PulentaJuan D'Arienzo, 1950
- 3Igual que una sombraRicardo Tanturi, 1945
- 4El espianteOsvaldo Fresedo, 1933
Javier Rodríguez and Noelia Barsi
In upload order: nobody has said the order danced
- 1DespuésMiguel Caló, 1944
- 2Bien PulentaJuan D'Arienzo, 1950
- 3Gallo ciegoOsvaldo Pugliese, 1959
- 4La cicatrizJuan D'Arienzo, 1939
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.
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- EntryHéctor VarelaPerson
- EntryCarlos WaissPerson
- EntrypurreteTopic
- EntryBien mistongaComposition
- EntryBien compadreComposition
- EntryBien bohemioComposition
- EntryPensalo bienComposition
- EntryBuena yuntaComposition
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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
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