La mentirosa

The tango was written by the composer Anselmo A. Aieta and the lyricist Francisco García Jiménez ^[1][2][3].

Aieta's biography describes the 1920s and early 1930s as the peak of his output and names "La mentirosa" among his works of that time ^[3]. It lists the work alongside other titles from those years, including "El huérfano" (1921), "Príncipe" (1922), "Suerte loca" (1925), "Siga el corso", "Bajo Belgrano" and "Tus besos fueron míos" (1926), and "Carnaval" and "La chiflada" (1927) ^[3].

In that list "La mentirosa" carries the year 1923 ^[3]. This year is not confirmed elsewhere in the available material, and the earliest known recording of the work dates from 1924 ^[1]. Neither year should be read as a documented premiere or first-performance date ^[1][3].

The same listing also gives a Gardel recording with Barbieri and Ricardo under the date range 1924–1928 ^[1]. It is unclear from the source whether this entry refers to the 1924 recording or to a separate session, so the date of Gardel's earliest version with these two guitarists differs between entries ^[1].

The 1928 Gardel recording added a third guitarist, José María Aguilar, to the duo of Barbieri and Ricardo ^[1]. The later recordings by D'Arienzo in 1944 and by Troilo with Casal in 1952 show that orchestras were still recording the work two decades after the earliest known recording ^[1].