Song
Tinta roja
1941: 1, 15; 1950: 1, 0; 1971: 1, 82; 1972: 1, 14
Aníbal Troilo’s 1971 version holds 73% of its dancing (82 of 111).
How we know
Of the dances to its 4 recordings in our catalogue. Dances count filmed Occasions on TangoTube.
Aníbal Troilo recorded it in 1941 and 1971.
How we know
Takes in our catalogue by the same orchestra in different years; the canon’s first orchestra is named.
Tinta roja was composed by Sebastián Piana.
Tinta roja is a tango.
Tinta roja was published in 1941.
The lyrics of Tinta roja are by Catulo Castillo.
every sentence cites a published fact
Credit
- Music
- Sebastián Piana
- Lyrics
- Catulo Castillo
Source: TangoCloud catalogue
Every recording
4 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 11 more we know of
Choose A and B on two recordings to hear them one after the other.
- Aníbal TroiloEarliest we holdFrancisco Fiorentino · RCA Victor · Oct 2315 dances1941
- Aníbal TroiloMost dancedRoberto Goyeneche · RCA Victor · Apr 2682 dances1971
- Osvaldo PuglieseInstrumental · Odeon · Apr 2514 dances1972
- Alberto MancioneFrancisco Fiorentino · Jul 28Not danced on film yet1950
- Leopoldo FedericoNot in our catalogueSusana Rinaldi1981
- Fulvio SalamancaNot in our catalogueJulio Rodolfo1985
- Gustavo NocettiNot in our catalogue
- Rubén JuárezNot in our catalogue
- Jorge ValdezNot in our catalogue
- Susana RinaldiNot in our catalogue
- Eduardo Del PianoNot in our catalogueInstrumental
- -unspecified female-Not in our catalogue
- José LibertellaNot in our catalogueMiguel Montero
- Leopoldo FedericoNot in our catalogueInstrumental
- Raúl LaviéNot in our catalogue
Lyrics
Español · Underlined words are lunfardo: tap one for its meaning.
Paredón, tinta roja en el gris del ayer... Tu emoción de ladrillo feliz sobre mi callejón con un borrón pintó la esquina... Y al botón que en el ancho de la noche puso el filo de la ronda como un broche... Y aquel buzón carmín, y aquel fondín donde lloraba el su rubio amor lejano que mojaba con bon vin. ¿Dónde estará mi arrabal? ¿Quién se robó mi niñez? ¿En qué rincón, luna mía, volcás como entonces tu clara alegría? Veredas que yo pisé, malevos que ya no son, bajo tu cielo de raso trasnocha un pedazo de mi corazón. Paredón tinta roja en el gris del ayer... Borbotón de mi sangre infeliz que vertí en el malvón de aquel balcón que la escondía... Yo no sé si fue negro de mis penas o fue rojo de tus venas mi sangría... Por qué llegó y se fue tras del carmín y el gris, fondín lejano donde lloraba un sus nostalgias de bon vin.
English · machine translation
Wall, red ink in the gray of yesterday... Your emotion of happy brick on my alley with a blur painted the corner... And to the button that in the width of the night put the edge of the round like a brooch... And that carmine mailbox, and that fondin where the tano wept his faraway blond love that he soaked with bon vin. Where is my suburb? Who stole my childhood? In what corner, my moon will you pour as you did then your clear joy? Sidewalks that I trod, evil men who are no more, under your satin sky a piece of my heart of my heart. Wall red ink in the gray of yesterday... Gush of my unhappy blood that I poured on the mallow of that balcony that hid her... I do not know if it was black from my sorrows or was it red from your veins my bloodletting... Why did it come and go after the crimson and the gray, distant fondin where a tano wept his nostalgia for bon vin.
Danced to it
Music from 1941–1972 · danced on film 2010–2026
2010: 1, 2011: 1, 2012: 2, 2013: 7, 2014: 6, 2015: 3, 2016: 5, 2017: 3, 2018: 8, 2019: 5, 2020: 3, 2021: 4, 2022: 2, 2023: 17, 2024: 4, 2026: 4
Where it is danced
The places our videos show it danced, by performances filmed there.
Data: recordings, facts and sources
Composer1
Composed by Sebastián Piana
Supported · 2In other catalogues4
TodoTango · tema/323
Single sourcetango.info · T0370175942
Single sourceMusicBrainz · 00ecf1f6-869f-45dd-b5b2-5b1715997719source
Single sourceIs a1
Is a Tango
Single sourcePublished1
Published 1941
Single sourceLyricist1
Lyrics by Catulo Castillo
Single sourceUsed in lyric1
tano — used in lyric Tinta roja
Single sourceListen
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