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Malena · Puglia-Pedroza · 1951

Puglia-PedrozaFrancisco Fiorentinotango
Music by Lucio Demare, lyrics by Homero Manzi. 15 recordings in our catalogue, 1942–2001.

Pinned at 1951 · Golden Age 1935–1954 · Puglia-Pedroza recordings indexed 1951–2000

The work

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Music
Lucio Demare
Lyrics
Homero Manzi

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Recordings

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The catalogue holds 15 recordings of this song by 11 orchestras, 1942 to 2001.

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1940’50’60’70’80’90’00
Recordings of Malena · Puglia-Pedroza · 1951 by year, taller the more they are danced · 15 of 15 recordings carry a year · read Nov 1, 2026

15 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 31 more we know of

The leader is Lucio Demare, 1942, with 36% of the 132 filmed dances matched to a version of this song.

19 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. Lucio DemareMost dancedMalenaLucio DemareJuan Carlos MirandatangoOdeon
    48 dances · 36%
    1942
  2. Osvaldo PuglieseMalenaOsvaldo PuglieseinstrumentaltangoOdeon
    23 dances · 17%
    1974
  3. Aníbal TroiloEarliest we holdMalenaAníbal TroiloFrancisco FiorentinotangoRCA Victor
    22 dances · 17%
    1942
  4. Roberto GoyenecheMalenaRoberto Goyenechesinger unknowntango
    16 dances · 12%
    1968
  5. Hugo DiazMalenaHugo Diazsinger unknowntango
    12 dances · 9%
    1972
  6. Color Tango (Roberto Alvarez)MalenaColor Tango (Roberto Alvarez)singer unknowntango
    9 dances · 7%
    1998
  7. Francisco CanaroMalenaFrancisco CanaroJuan Carlos RolontangoOdeon
    2 dances · 2%
    1955
  8. Quintin VerduMalenaQuintin VerduLucio Lambertotango
    No match yet
    1950
  9. Lucio DemareMalenaLucio DemareHéctor AlvaradotangoColumbia
    No match yet
    1951
  10. Puglia-PedrozaMalenaPuglia-PedrozaFrancisco Fiorentinotango
    No match yet
    1951
  11. Aníbal TroiloMalenaAníbal TroiloRaúl BeróntangoTK
    No match yet
    1952
  12. Lucio DemareMalenaLucio Demaresinger unknowntangoDisc Jockey
    No match yet
    1957
  13. Miguel CalóMalenaMiguel CalóRaúl del Mar, Héctor Gagliardi, Roberto LuquetangoOdeon Colombia
    No match yet
    1965
  14. Miguel CalóMalenaMiguel CalóRoberto LuquetangoOdeon Colombia
    No match yet
    1965
  15. Horacio Salgan y Ubaldo De LioMalenaHoracio Salgan y Ubaldo De Liosinger unknowntangoMelopea
    No match yet
    2001
  16. -unspecified guitars-Not in our catalogueAzucena Maizani1942
  17. -unspecified orchestra-Not in our catalogueEdmundo Rivero1961
  18. Lucio DemareNot in our catalogueJul 301968
  19. Rosanna FalascaNot in our catalogue1982
  20. Rosaura SilvestreNot in our catalogue1995

Lyrics

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Malena canta el tango como ninguna y en cada verso pone su corazón. A yuyo del suburbio su voz perfuma, Malena tiene pena de bandoneón. Tal vez allá en la infancia su voz de alondra tomó ese tono oscuro de callejón, o acaso aquel romance que sólo nombra cuando se pone triste con el alcohol. Malena canta el tango con voz de sombra, Malena tiene pena de bandoneón. Tu canción tiene el frío del último encuentro. Tu canción se hace amarga en la sal del recuerdo. Yo no sé si tu voz es la flor de una pena, sólo sé que al rumor de tus tangos, Malena, te siento más buena, más buena que yo. Tus ojos son oscuros como el olvido, tus labios apretados como el rencor, tus manos dos palomas que sienten frío, tus venas tienen sangre de bandoneón. Tus tangos son criaturas abandonadas que cruzan sobre el barro del callejón, cuando todas las puertas están cerradas y ladran los fantasmas de la canción. Malena canta el tango con voz quebrada, Malena tiene pena de bandoneón.

English · machine translation

Malena sings tango like no other and in each verse she puts her heart. Her voice is perfumed with the scent of the suburbs, Malena has the sorrow of a bandoneon. Maybe back in her childhood her lark's voice took that dark tone of the alley, or perhaps that romance that she only mentions when she gets sad with alcohol. Malena sings the tango with a shadowy voice, Malena has the sorrow of a bandoneon. Your song has the cold of the last encounter. Your song becomes bitter in the salt of memory. I do not know if your voice is the flower of a sorrow, I only know that to the murmur of your tangos, Malena, I feel you better, better than me. Your eyes are dark as oblivion, your lips tight as rancor, your hands two doves that feel cold, your veins have bandoneon blood. Your tangos are abandoned creatures that cross over the mud of the alley, when all the doors are closed and the ghosts of the song bark. Malena sings the tango with a broken voice, Malena has the sorrow of a bandoneon.

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