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Song

Así se baila el tango · 2017

· tango · 2017
Music by Elías Randal, lyrics by Elizardo Martínez Vilas. 5 recordings in our catalogue, 1942–2023.

Who recorded it

Every version5

Earliest we hold: Ricardo Tanturi, 1942

  1. Ricardo TanturiAlberto Castillo1942
  2. Francisco CanaroCarlos Roldán1943
  3. Enrique AlessioAlberto Castillo1946
  4. Orquesta Típica Tanturi20172023

Recorded in 2017, during the Electronic and festival era (2000–).

2017

2000today

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Key facts
Year
2017
Contents1The song2Who wrote it3Lyrics4Every version5One recording

The song

ORQUESTA TÍPICA TANTURIOrquesta Típica TANTURIASÍ SE BAILA EL TANGOTango2017

The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.

4 orchestras recorded it

75 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

Español

¡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

The catalogue holds 5 recordings of this song by 4 orchestras, 1942 to 2023.
1940’50’60’70’80’90’00’10’20
Recordings of Así se baila el tango · 2017 by year, taller the more they are danced · 5 of 5 recordings carry a year · read Nov 8, 2026

A Song's recorded lineage

We hold dated Recordings by 4 orchestras; the earliest here is Ricardo Tanturi in 1942.

  1. 1942Ricardo TanturiRecording
  2. 1943Francisco CanaroRecording
  3. 1946Enrique AlessioRecording
  4. 2017Orquesta Típica TanturiRecording

Gold marks the first we hold, not the first ever. Filled dots have filmed Dances; rings have no Dances matched yet.

5 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 99% of the 75 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. Ricardo TanturiEarliest we holdMost dancedAsí se baila el tango · Ricardo Tanturi · Alberto Castillo · tango · Dec 4, 1942 · RCA Victor
    74 dances · 99%
    1942
  2. Francisco CanaroAsí se baila el tango · Francisco Canaro · Carlos Roldán · tango · Mar 18, 1943 · Odeon
    1 dance · 1%
    1943
  3. Enrique AlessioAsí se baila el tango · Enrique Alessio · Alberto Castillo · tango · Jul 11, 1946
    No match yet
    1946
  4. Osvaldo RequenaNot in our catalogueAlberto Castillo1960
  5. Osvaldo RequenaNot in our catalogueAlberto Castillo1974
  6. Adriana VarelaNot in our catalogue
  7. -unspecified male-Not in our catalogue

One recording

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

ORQUESTA TÍPICA TANTURIOrquesta Típica TANTURIASÍ SE BAILA EL TANGOTango2017

Orquesta Típica Tanturi

Así se baila el tango · Orquesta Típica Tanturi · tango · 2017

No couple filmed dancing this recording yet

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