Song
Así se baila el tango · Francisco Canaro · 1943
Francisco CanaroCarlos RoldántangoOdeonWho recorded it
Every version3Earliest we hold: Ricardo Tanturi, 1942
Pinned at 1943 · Golden Age 1935–1954 · Francisco Canaro recordings indexed 1915–1973 · gold: Later years, 1939–1964
Así se baila el tango · Francisco Canaro · 1943 was sung by Carlos Roldán.† Así se baila el tango · Francisco Canaro · 1943 is a tango.† Así se baila el tango · Francisco Canaro · 1943 lasts 02:54.†
The song
The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.
3 orchestras recorded it
61 Dances filmed to it
Who wrote it
- Music
- Elías Randal
- Words
- Elizardo Martínez Vilas
- Written
- not yet cited · help fill it
- First played
- not yet cited · help fill it
Source: TangoCloud catalogue
Lyrics
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¡Qué saben los pitucos, lamidos y shushetas! ¡Qué saben lo que es tango, qué saben de compás! Aquí está la elegancia. ¡Qué pinta! ¡Qué silueta! ¡Qué porte! ¡Qué arrogancia! ¡Qué clase pa'bailar! Así se corta el césped mientras dibujo el ocho, para estas filigranas yo soy como un pintor. Ahora una corrida, una vuelta, una sentada... ¡Así se baila el tango, un tango de mi flor! Así se baila el tango, Sintiendo en la cara, la sangre que sube a cada compás, mientras el brazo, como una serpiente, se enrosca en el talle que se va a quebrar. Así se baila el tango, mezclando el aliento, cerrando los ojos pa' escuchar mejor, cómo los violines le cuentan al fueye por qué desde esa noche Malena no cantó. ¿Será mujer o junco, cuando hace una quebrada? ¿Tendrá resorte o cuerda para mover los pies? Lo cierto es que mi prenda, que mi "peor es nada", bailando es una fiera que me hace enloquecer... A veces me pregunto si no será mi sombra que siempre me persigue, o un ser sin voluntad. ¡Pero es que ya ha nacido así, pa' la milonga y, como yo, se muere, se muere por bailar!
English · machine translation
What do the pitucos, licks and shushetas know! What do they know about tango, what do they know about compás! Here is the elegance. What a look! What a silhouette! What poise! What arrogance! What class to dance! This is how the lawn is mowed while I draw the "ocho", for these watermarks I am like a painter. Now a run, a turn, a sit.... That's how you dance the tango, a tango of my flower! That's how you dance the tango, Feeling in your face, the blood that rises with each beat, while the arm, like a snake, coils around the waist that is about to break. This is how the tango is danced, mixing the breath, closing your eyes to listen better, how the violins tell the fueye why since that night Malena did not sing. Will she be a woman or a reed, when she makes a break? Will she have a spring or a rope to move her feet? What is certain is that my garment, that my "worse is nothing", dancing is a beast that makes me go crazy... Sometimes I wonder if it's not my shadow that always chases me, or a being without will. But it's just that he was born like that, pa' la milonga and, like me, he's dying, he's dying to dance!
Every version
Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone
3 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 4 more we know of
a version people dance tono Dances matched yet: something to listen to
The leader is Ricardo Tanturi, 1942, with 98% of the 61 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.
- Ricardo TanturiEarliest we holdMost dancedAsí se baila el tangoRicardo TanturiAlberto CastillotangoRCA Victor60 dances · 98%1942
- Francisco CanaroAsí se baila el tangoFrancisco CanaroCarlos RoldántangoOdeon1 dance · 2%1943
- Enrique AlessioAsí se baila el tangoEnrique AlessioAlberto CastillotangoNo match yet1946
- Osvaldo RequenaNot in our catalogueAlberto Castillo1960
- Osvaldo RequenaNot in our catalogueAlberto Castillo1974
- Adriana VarelaNot in our catalogue
- -unspecified male-Not in our catalogue
One recording
A dated take, with its sound and the couples dancing it.
Francisco Canaro
Así se baila el tangoFrancisco CanaroCarlos RoldántangoOdeonNo couple filmed dancing this recording yet
Recorded the same day
What else Francisco Canaro recorded on Mar 18, 1943.
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In other catalogues6
tango.info · 02480002041047-1-2
tango.info · 00724347388828-1-6
tango.info · 02480002030980-1-6
tango.info · 02480002102793-1-6
tango.info · 02480002740414-1-1
tango.info · 04024236201051-1-4
Singers1
Sung by Carlos Roldán
Is a1
Is a tango
Duration1
Duration 02:54
Vocal1
Vocal sung
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