ANGELITOS NEGROS
Created on 23/12/2012Latest update on 21/03/2026
Artist: Toña La Negra
Author: Andrés Eloy Blanco/Manuel Alvarez Maciste
Label: Victor
Year: 1942
Based on Andrés Eloy Blanco's poem Pintame Angelitos Negros. He's from Venezuela, Maciste who wrote the music is from Mexico.
Covers:
- 1946:
- 1947:
- 1948:
Pedro Infante [in eponymous film]
- 1949:
Carlo Buti [as Angeli Negri]
- 1955:
Eartha Kitt [Spanish version and in '70 as Paint Me Black Angels]
- 1959:
Don Martino Barreto Jr. [in Italian as Angeli Negri]
- 1960s:
- 1965:
- 1966:
Caterina Valente [German version as Schwarze Engel]
- 1968:
Fausto Leali [hit It. as Angeli Negri]
- 1968:
Dalida [als Les Anges noirs]
- 1969:
Roberta Flack [Spanish version]
- 1999:
Squallor [as Angeli Negri]
- 2002:
- 2008:
Cat Power [bonus track on cover CD Jukebox, crediting Roberta Flack]
