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La melodía del corazón

Music by Fioravanti Di Cicco, Héctor Artola, lyrics by Carmelo Santiago. 2 recordings in our catalogue, 1940–1940.

La melodía del corazón was composed by Fioravanti Di Cicco and Héctor María Artola.† The lyrics of La melodía del corazón are by Carmelo Santiago.†

Credit

Music
Fioravanti Di Cicco, Héctor Artola
Lyrics
Carmelo Santiago

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Every recording

2 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 1 more we know of

1940

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

  1. Edgardo DonatoEarliest we holdMost dancedRomeo Gavioli · RCA Victor · Apr 30
    86 dances
    1940
  2. Francisco CanaroFrancisco Amor · Odeon · May 10
    2 dances
    1940
  3. Ensemble HyperionNot in our catalogueRuben Peloni

Danced to it

Music from 1940 · danced on film 2006–2026

20062026
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

2006: 2, 2008: 5, 2009: 25, 2010: 13, 2011: 8, 2012: 8, 2013: 2, 2014: 3, 2015: 6, 2016: 6, 2017: 1, 2018: 2, 2021: 1, 2022: 3, 2023: 1, 2024: 2, 2026: 1

Jonathan Saavedra & Clarisa AragónWorld Champions · Tango de Pista 20152018 · 3:42

Through the decades

  1. The 2000sSebastián Arce & Mariana MontesMilonguero Nights · 2009
  2. The 2010sJonathan Saavedra & Clarisa Aragón2018
  3. The 2020sJaimes Friedgen & Rebecca Shulman2022

Where it is danced

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

  1. Salón El Pial (La Baldosa)Flores
    2 performances
  2. Club Social y Deportivo Villa MalcolmVilla Crespo
    1 performance
  3. El BesoBalvanera
    1 performance
  4. La MilonguitaColegiales
    1 performance
  5. La Viruta (Centro Armenio)Palermo
    1 performance

What we don't know yet3 of 4 known

The year it was written.

Data: recordings, facts and sources

In other catalogues2

tango.info · T0370048557

Single source

TodoTango · tema/5136

Single source

Composer2

Composed by Fioravanti Di Cicco

Sources disagree

Composed by Héctor María Artola

Sources disagree

Lyricist1

Lyrics by Carmelo Santiago

Single source

Listen

  1. La melodía del corazónEdgardo Donato · Romeo Gavioli1940
  2. La melodía del corazónFrancisco Canaro · Francisco Amor1940

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