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Pedro Laurenz y su Orquesta Típica.

“De puro guapo” by Pedro Laurenz y su Orquesta Típica with Juan Carlos Casas in vocals, 1940 (English translation).

“De puro guapo” by Pedro Laurenz y su Orquesta Típica with Juan Carlos Casas in vocals, 1940 (English translation).

Music: Pedro Laurenz. Lyrics: Manuel Meaños.

Between cortes y quebradas,
I softly grumbled in your ear
all my flowery verb
that my love told you.

You showed in your smile
all your flirtation,
and I, my manhood defeated …
I, who always knew how to win.

To get your love
I want to bet my life
to the card that I liked …
It is not the first game
in which my rest I have gambled …
And if in the end I take over and win,
—valiant I am in the situation—
there is a knife, brave hand,
courage and bravery
to assert myself.

I have what I want,
and that for valiant and for brave …
It is enough that in one arm I have the rag
and in another the knife …
If my deeds are not enough
I put my courage to the test.
No one advantages my lead
when your love is at stake!

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"Alma de bohemio" of Roberto Firpo, recorded by Pedro Laurenz y su Orquesta Típica with Alberto Podestá in vocals.

“Alma de bohemio” by Pedro Laurenz y su Orquesta Típica with Alberto Podestá in vocals, 1943.

“Alma de bohemio” by Pedro Laurenz y su Orquesta Típica with Alberto Podestá in vocals, 1943.

Roberto Firpo

Pianist, composer and leader. (May 10, 1884 – June 14, 1969)

Firpo was, at his time, one of the most recognized and celebrated composers of Tango. Therefore, the recording company Lepage Odeón of Max Glücksmann summoned him to make their first recordings.

At the time, recording the piano with other instruments presented challenges because the overwhelming sound of the piano would drown out the other instruments.

Firpo resolved the problem by placing the instruments in an order still kept at the orquestas típicas.

In 1914 came his greatest success: “Alma de bohemio”, which he composed for a play of the same name, at the request of the brilliant actor Florencio Parravicini.

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“Orgullo criollo” by Pedro Laurenz y su Orquesta Típica, 1941.

“Orgullo criollo” by Pedro Laurenz y su Orquesta Típica, 1941.

Pedro Laurenz & Julio De Caro | Argentine Tango music

Pedro Laurenz

Bandoneon player, director and composer (October 10, 1902 – July 7, 1972)

He was a great tango personality, basically as a bandoneon player and composer. His influence as orchestra director was relatively less, though still significant. He was a bandoneon player of great techniques, skillful with both hands (high and low pitches), superb in sound, energetic in performances, and vehement in phrases. He was the founder of a performance school.

As a composer —one of the greatest in the tango history— his work mingled with those of Pedro Maffia and the brothers Julio and Francisco De Caro, but then it flew on his own. Among his best compositions, now classic tangos, is “Orgullo criollo” (with the cooperation of Julio De Caro).

Read more about Pedro Laurenz at www.todotango.com

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  • Now they started a new project that addresses the dancers and the website is https://en.mytango.online
    You will find two compilations at the beginning, one tango and one vals compilation in amazing quality.
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Yo quiero cantar un tango. Argentine music at Escuela de Tango de Buenos Aires.

“Yo quiero cantar un tango” by Pedro Laurenz y su Orquesta Típica with Alberto Podestá in vocals, 1943 (English translation).

Yo quiero cantar un tango. Argentine music at Escuela de Tango de Buenos Aires.José María Suñé

Lyricist
(15 January 1911 – 1 May 1976)

“Yo quiero cantar un tango,
un tango sentimental

que me recuerde en sus notas
la canción que abrigó
mis noches de arrabal.
Yo quiero cantar un tango,
un tango sentimental,
para acunar en sus versos
la ilusión de ese amor
que no he de ver jamás…

La vi…
llegando por el callejón,
con el rumor entre sus labios
de una música de amor.
Y toda la sensación
que secreta puso en mi alma,
se aviva en mi interior…

Yo sé…
que aquel encuentro de arrabal,
vino a calmar con sus encantos
mi dolor sentimental.
Pero yo…
mal rumbeado por mis penas,
así, sin razonar,
me alejé sin verla más…”

Translation:

I want to sing a tango,
a sentimental tango
that reminds me in its notes
the song that sheltered
my nights in the suburbs.
I want to sing a tango,
a sentimental tango,
to cradle in its verses
the illusion of that love
that I will never see…

I saw her…
arriving through the alley,
with the rumor between her lips
of a love music.
And all the feeling
that secretly puts in my soul,
it lights up inside me …

I know…
That meeting in the outskirts,
came to calm down with its charms
my sentimental pain.
But I…
bad cursed by my sorrows,
so, without reason,
I walked away without seeing her anymore…

Tango 1943
Music: José Nieso / Miguel Nijensohn.
Lyrics: José María Suñé.

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Orquesta Pedro laurenz con Hector Farrel. Argentine music at Escuela de Tango de Buenos Aires.

“Milonga de mis amores” by Pedro Laurenz y su Orquesta Típica with Héctor Farrel in vocals, 1937 (English translation of the lyrics).

Orquesta Pedro laurenz con Hector Farrel. Argentine music at Escuela de Tango de Buenos Aires.Oigo tu voz
engarzada en los acordes de una Iírica guitarra…
Sos milonga de otros tiempos… Yo te vi crecer
prendida en las polleras de un bailongo guapo y rompedor
como jamás ha de volver.

Nadie, tal vez,
comprendió mejor las penas y el sentir de mi barriada…
Sin embargo te olvidaron y en el callejón
tan sólo una guitarra te recuerda, criolla como vos,
y en su gemir tiembla mi ser.

Vuelvo cansado de todo
y en mi corazón lloran los años…
Mi vida busca tan sólo
la tranquilidad del viejo barrio…
Y encuentro todo cambiado menos tu canción, milonga mía…
El progreso ha destrozado toda la emoción
de mi arrabal.

Quiero olvidar
y tus notas van llenando de tristeza el alma mía…
He cruzado tantas veces ese callejón,
llevando entre los labios un silbido alegre y tu cantar
emborrachando el corazón.

Era feliz
entregado a las caricias de la única sincera
que acunó una primavera que no floreció…
Milonga, ya no puedo continuar… El llanto me venció…
Quiero olvidar… y pienso más.

Milonga 1937.
Music: Pedro Laurenz.
Lyrics: José María Contursi.

English translation:

I hear your voice
set in the chords of an Iyric guitar…
You are milonga of other times… I saw you growing up
stitched in the skirts of a brave and groundbreaking dancing
as never to return.

No one but me, perhaps,
understood better the sorrows and the feeling of my neighborhood…
However, they forgot you, and in the alley,
only a guitar remembers you, criolla like you,
and in my groan, my whole being trembles.

I return tired of everything
and in my heart the years cry…
My life seeks only
the tranquility of the old neighborhood…
And I find everything changed except your song, my milonga…
Progress has shattered all the emotions
of my suburb.

I want to forget
and your notes fill my soul with sadness…
I’ve crossed that alley so many times,
bringing a happy whistle between my lips and your singing
getting my heart drunk.

I was happy
and committed to the caresses of the only sincere one
that cradled a spring that didn’t bloom…
Milonga, I can no longer continue… The crying beat me…
I want to forget … and I think more.

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