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“Adiós arrabal” by Ángel D’Agostino y su Orquesta Típica with Ángel Vargas in vocals, 1941.

“Adiós arrabal” by Ángel D’Agostino y su Orquesta Típica with Ángel Vargas in vocals, 1941.

Juan Baüer

Pianist, composer and leader (27 November 1897 – 13 September 1952)

Since childhood, he had been known by the nickname Firpito because he liked the tangos composed by Roberto Firpo.

The latter, on a certain occasion, called him that way.

He became a composer in 1924 and produced many great tangos, like this one.

He started his career working in movie theaters, theaters, and the Uruguayan Sondor records.

Baüer was born in Spain on November 27, 1897. When he was a kid, he arrived in Uruguay, Salto, where he grew up and studied.

He passed away in Montevideo on September 13, 1952.

Read more about Juan Baüer at www.todotango.com

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It is the number 1 source for professional Tango DJs all over the world.

  • 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.
    The price is 50€ each (for 32 songs each compilation) and now the good news!

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“Un copetín” by Ángel D’Agostino y su Orquesta Típica with Ángel Vargas in vocals, 1941.

“Un copetín” by Ángel D’Agostino y su Orquesta Típica with Ángel Vargas in vocals, 1941.

Cuarteto Juan Maglio, Argentine Tango music.

Juan Maglio Pacho

Bandoneonist, leader and composer (18 November 1881 – 14 July 1934)

Juan Maglio “Pacho” was essential to the acceptance of the bandoneon as a musical instrument of Tango.

Born in 1881, he started to learn to play bandoneon by watching his father play it every day after work.

He would pay attention to the finger positions and then practice them secretly on his home’s roof.

He went to school until the age of 12, when he started to work, first in a mechanic workshop, then as a laborer in different activities, and then in a brickyard.

At the age of 18, he decided to fully head into his vocation: music.

During the years of hard work, he kept practicing, in order to stay in shape for when the opportunity knocks.

He improved notoriously, and from his bandoneon of 35 buttons, moved successively to instruments of 45, 52, 65, 71, and at last, a customized bandoneon of 75 buttons.

Read more about Juan Maglio Pacho and the History of Tango

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“Esquinas porteñas” by Ángel D’Agostino y su Orquesta Típica with Ángel Vargas in vocals, 1942.

“Esquinas porteñas” by Ángel D’Agostino y su Orquesta Típica with Ángel Vargas in vocals, 1942.

Music: Sebastián Piana. Lyrics: Homero Manzi.

Buenos Aires neighborhood corner
the moon and the sun paint your walls.
The winter rains cry for you
in the watercolors of my evocation.

Thirty moons know my wound
and a hundred streets saw us go by.
Your life and my life crossed,
you took the path that never returns.

Streets, where the meek life
lost hope,
passion and faith.
Streets, if I know that she is already dead,
knocking on every door
why will I look for her?
Little streets, shaded with poetry,
they saw us one day
both happy.
Companion of the sun and the stars,
that afternoon left
God’s way.

The winds murmur my sorrow.
The shadows tell me that he’s already gone.
And written in the serene nights
I find her name as an obsession.

A little corner of Buenos Aires neighborhood,
with walls painted with the moon and the sun,
that when crying with your winter rains
you stain the landscape of my evocation.

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Letra original en castellano

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“Ninguna” by Ángel D’Agostino y su Orquesta Típica with Ángel Vargas in vocals, 1942.

“Ninguna” by Ángel D’Agostino y su Orquesta Típica with Ángel Vargas in vocals, 1942.

Ángel D'Agostino & Ángel Vargas, Argentine Tango orchestra conductor and singer.

Ángel Vargas

Singer, lyricist and composer (22 October 1904 – 7 July 1959)

In 1940 he would commence his fundamental period when entering the orchestra led by the pianist Ángel D’Agostino with whom he would stay until 1946, producing 94 renditions on record which stand as legitimate jewels in the genre.

A singer with an impressive personality, he is the symbol of porteño (from Buenos Aires) tango phrasing in the 40s. 

His phrasing was reo and compadrito but at the same time of an infinite good taste. 

Angel Vargas died young and without a very noticeable decline as an interpreter; he was undoubtedly one of the major artists in our tango music. 

Among his recordings, stands out “Ninguna”. 

Read more about Ángel Vargas at www.todotango.com

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We are happy to have a collaboration with the people from tangotunes.com from whom some of you may have heard, they do high-quality transfers from original tango shellacs.

It is the number 1 source for professional Tango DJs all over the world.

  • 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.
    The price is 50€ each (for 32 songs each compilation) and now the good news!

If you enter the promo code 8343 when you register at this site you will get a 20% discount!

Thanks for supporting this project, you will find other useful information on the site, a great initiative.

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“De igual a igual” by Ángel D’Agostino y su Orquesta Típica with Ángel Vargas in vocals, 1945.

“De igual a igual” by Ángel D’Agostino y su Orquesta Típica with Ángel Vargas in vocals, 1945.

Rodolfo Sciammarella, Argentine Tango musician and composer.

Rodolfo Sciammarella

Pianist, composer and lyricist (October 8, 1902 – June 24, 1973)

Very few were the singers and the orchestras that had not included some of his pieces in their repertoires.

He achieved so many hits, the fruit of his extraordinary facility for composition and his permanent inventiveness. 

When critics are talking about composers, his name should not be omitted.

Read more about Rodolfo Sciammarella at www.todotango.com

Listen and buy:

  • Amazon music

  • iTunes music

  • Spotify

We are happy to have a collaboration with the people from tangotunes.com from whom some of you may have heard, they do high-quality transfers from original tango shellacs.

It is the number 1 source for professional Tango DJs all over the world.

  • 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.
    The price is 50€ each (for 32 songs each compilation) and now the good news!

If you enter the promo code 8343 when you register at this site you will get a 20% discount!

Thanks for supporting this project, you will find other useful information on the site, a great initiative.

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