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La puñalada · Juan D'Arienzo · 1951

Juan D'ArienzoinstrumentalmilongaRCA Victor
Music by Pintín Castellanos, lyrics by Celedonio Flores. 16 recordings in our catalogue, 1937–2014.

Who recorded it

Every version16

Earliest we hold: Juan D'Arienzo, 1937

  1. Juan D'Arienzo1937194319511963
  2. Osvaldo Fresedo1950
  3. Francisco Canaro193719461951
  4. Cuarteto Típico Roberto Firpo1949
  5. José Basso1955
  6. Héctor Varela1967

Pinned at 1951 · Golden Age 1935–1954 · Juan D'Arienzo recordings indexed 1928–1975 · gold: Salamanca in the 50s, 1950–1957

La puñalada · Juan D'Arienzo · 1951 is a milonga.† La puñalada · Juan D'Arienzo · 1951 lasts 01:56.†

The song

The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.

11 orchestras recorded it

96 Dances filmed to it

Who wrote it

Music
Pintín Castellanos
Words
Celedonio Flores
Written
not yet cited · help fill it
First played
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Its words name
Palermo

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Lyrics

These are the song’s words. This take is instrumental.

Español · Underlined words are lunfardo: tap one for its meaning.

Mentan los que saben que un malevo muy de agallas y de fama bien sentada por el barrio de Palermo cayó un día taconeando prepotente a un bailongo donde había puntos bravos pa'l . Lo empezaron a mirar con un aire sobrador pero el mozo, sin chistar, a una puerta se arrimó. Los dejó sobrar. Los dejó decir. Y pa' no pelear tuvo que sufrir. Pero la pebeta más bonita, la que estaba más metida en el alma de los tauras, esa noche con la vista lo incitaba a que saliera a darles dique y a jugarse en un tango su cartel. Se cruzó un gran rencor y otro rencor a la luz de un farolito a querosén y un puñal que parte en dos un corazón porque así lo quiso aquella cruel mujer. Cuentan los que vieron que los guapos culebrearon con sus cuerpos y buscaron afanosos el descuido del contrario y en un claro de la guardia hundió el mozo de Palermo hasta el mango su .

English · machine translation

Those who know that a malevo of guts and of fame well seated in the neighborhood of Palermo fell one day heeled high heeled to a dancehall where there were brave stitches for the facon. They began to look at him with an air of sobriety but the waiter, without complaining, approached a door. He let them be left over. He let them say. And in order not to fight he had to suffer. But the prettiest the prettiest, the one who was most deeply in the soul of the tauras, that night with her eyes incited him to go out to give them dyke and to gamble in a tango his poster. They crossed a great rancor and another rancor in the light of a kerosene lantern and a dagger that splits a heart in two because that that cruel woman wanted it. Those who saw it say that the handsome they snaked with their bodies and searched eagerly the carelessness of the opponent and in a clearing of the guard sank the Palermo of Palermo up to the handle his facon.

Every version

Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone

The catalogue holds 16 recordings of this song by 11 orchestras, 1937 to 2014.
1930’40’50’60’70’80’90’00’10
Recordings of La puñalada · Juan D'Arienzo · 1951 by year, taller the more they are danced · 16 of 16 recordings carry a year · read Nov 2, 2026

16 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 32 more we know of

a version people dance tono Dances matched yet: something to listen to

The leader is Juan D'Arienzo, with 98% of the 96 filmed dances matched to a version of this song.

14 more dances name this song but not which version, so no share counts them. “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. Cuarteto Típico Roberto FirpoLa puñaladaCuarteto Típico Roberto FirpomilongaOdeon
    No match yet
    1949
  2. Osvaldo FresedoLa puñaladaOsvaldo FresedoinstrumentalmilongaColumbia
    No match yet
    1950
  3. José BassoLa puñaladaJosé BassoinstrumentalmilongaOdeon
    No match yet
    1955
  4. Héctor VarelaLa puñaladaHéctor Varelainstrumentalmilonga
    No match yet
    1967
  5. Donato RacciattiLa puñaladaDonato Racciattimilonga
    No match yet
    1971
  6. Los Solistas De D'ArienzoLa puñaladaLos Solistas De D'ArienzomilongaMusic Hall
    No match yet
    1975
  7. Nuevo Quinteto Real (Horacio Salgán)La puñaladaNuevo Quinteto Real (Horacio Salgán)milongaPhilips
    No match yet
    1987
  8. Orquesta Escuela de TangoLa puñaladaOrquesta Escuela de Tangomilonga
    No match yet
    2013
  9. Sexteto VisceralLa puñaladaSexteto Visceralmilonga
    No match yet
    2014
  10. Alberto GómezNot in our catalogue1937
  11. Roberto FirpoNot in our catalogue1937
  12. -unspecified orchestra-Not in our catalogueAlberto Gómez · Dec 21937
  13. Juan CambareriNot in our catalogueAug 141948
  14. Enrique MoraNot in our catalogueAug 161950
  15. Manuel PizarroNot in our catalogue1959
  16. Los siete del tangoNot in our catalogueApr 71967
  17. Nuevo Quinteto RealNot in our catalogueJan 191996
  18. QuinTangoNot in our catalogue2003

One recording

Danced to it

Music from 1951 · danced on film 2016–2017

20162017
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

2016: 1, 2017: 1

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.

The one complete set on film

  1. Natalia Atepaeva and Ruslan Takhirov

    2016 · In upload order: nobody has said the order danced

    1. 1El acomodoEdgardo Donato, 1952
    2. 2Corrientes y EsmeraldaOsvaldo Pugliese, 1944
    3. 3La puñaladaJuan D'Arienzo, 1951
    Watch it on TangoTube

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From TangoTube's videos · our data

Data: recordings, facts and sources

In other catalogues10

tango.info · 08427328133036-1-1

tango.info · 08427328140119-1-7

tango.info · 00743217137229-1-1

tango.info · 00743212755022-1-16

tango.info · 02480002761204-2-1

tango.info · 02480002103158-4-16

tango.info · 02480002101222-2-32

tango.info · 02480002027485-1-4

tango.info · 00743213541624-1-1

tango.info · 02480002003199-1-16

Is a1

Is a milonga

Duration1

Duration 01:56

Audio feature13

Audio feature 117.5

Audio feature 0.948

Audio feature D

Audio feature major

Audio feature 0.847

Audio feature -21.0

Audio feature 0.442

Audio feature 0.377

Audio feature 0.0

Audio feature 0.013

Audio feature 0.987

Audio feature 117.4

Audio feature step

Vocal1

Vocal instrumental

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