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“Pinta orillera” by Rodolfo Biagi y su Orquesta Típica with Jorge Ortiz in vocals, 1940.

“Pinta orillera” by Rodolfo Biagi y su Orquesta Típica with Jorge Ortiz in vocals, 1940.

Antonio Arcieri, Argentine Tango musician, leader and composer.

Antonio Arcieri

Violinist and composer (9 September 1909 – 5 May 1952)

He started when he was a boy.

He put together the Trío América, quite successful, along with Aquilini and Sureda.

Thereafter, the Orquesta Rostan (a name that combines the surnames Rosich and Ricardo Tanturi).

As composer he wrote, among other tangos “Pinta orillera”. 

Read more about Antonio Arcieri 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!

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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“Cacareando” by Orquesta Típica Victor with Carlos Lafuente in vocals, 1933.

“Cacareando” by Orquesta Típica Victor with Carlos Lafuente in vocals, 1933.

Police notice sign.

The first milongueros

The names of the first Tango dancers milongueros are not in a book on the history of Tango but in police records.

In a newspaper from 1862, it is read that Daniel Molina, Feliciano Orsine, Rufino Olguín, and José Sandoval, with the women Catalina Barsolo and Francisca Díaz, were imprisoned at the police station for dancing with “cortes y quebradas”… which was forbidden.

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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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“Tomala con soda” by Adolfo Carabelli y su Orquesta Típica with Carlos Lafuente in vocals, 1933.

“Tomala con soda” by Adolfo Carabelli y su Orquesta Típica with Carlos Lafuente in vocals, 1933.

Adolfo Carabelli, Argentine Tango musician.

Adolfo Carabelli

Pianist, composer and leader (September 8, 1893 – January 25, 1947)

The absolute amplitude of Carabelli’s capacity is evidenced in 1926 when Victor hired him as artistic director of the label and, at the same time, commissioned him to form an orchestra that would play either jazz or tango music.

Thanks to Carabelli, since then, the Victor staff has reached a higher hierarchy, achieving the inclusion of notable musicians and choosing an attractive repertoire.

Among the best well-known tangos of his tango orchestra (orquesta típica) is “Tomala con soda”.

Read more about Adolfo Carabelli 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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“No está” by Carlos Di Sarli y su Orquesta Típica with Alberto Podestá in vocals, 1942 (English translation).

“No está” by Carlos Di Sarli y su Orquesta Típica with Alberto Podestá in vocals, 1942 (English translation).

Carlos Di Sarli with Alberto Podestá, Argentine Tango musical artists.

Music & Lyrics: José Bohr.

Every time I call you
they tell me: “She’s not here!”

What a strange case
Why will it be?
Would it be that your love
it moves away from mine,
could it be that my love
is getting you tired?
Every time I call you
with more anxiety,
every time that “no”
it’s more coldly …
It’s my fault,
I lived in another world
and now I wake up
to reality…

I love you,
I loved you
and I will love you…
In my arms
You swore me, eternal love…
There was no in the world
nothing but my love,
nothing but my caresses,
for you, I was your heaven…
You don’t love me,
you didn’t love me,
you won’t love me…
Like all,
your promises were vain…
You have forgotten a faithful love,
you have broken a heart
that today bleeds
to the beat of its pain.

Today, tomorrow,
every day,
always the same…
The one who makes wrong,
you know it well,
always pays…
So someday you too
you will blind yourself with a love
and in this world, for you,
there will be nothing…
Like me,
same as others,
you too,
toys we are
of the wheel of destiny…
At every moment you will call,
with crazy anxiety, you will ask,
and with “it’s not here” cruel
so they will answer …

Every time I call you
they tell me: “She’s not here!”

More Argentine Tango lyrics

Letra original en castellano

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“Cascabelito” by Carlos Di Sarli y su Orquesta Típica with Roberto Rufino in vocals, 1941.

“Cascabelito” by Carlos Di Sarli y su Orquesta Típica with Roberto Rufino in vocals, 1941.

José Bohr, Argentine Tango singer, composer, lyricist, actor and leader. Portrait.

José Bohr

Singer, composer, lyricist, actor and leader (September 3, 1901 – May 29, 1994)

He began to carry out his career as a singer on Radio Cultura, accompanying himself on the piano.

One day, he was in his job —Bohr will remember in his memoirs— he received the following phone call:

—Che, tell me. You’re the kid of the radio. Aren’t you? Don’t you know who you’re talking to? You’re speaking with the most famous voice in Argentina. You’re talking to Carlitos Gardel. They told me that you wrote an amazing tango with much soul and that it’s very romantic, something that has to do with the carnival.

—”Cascabelito”? Bohr dared to say timidly. 

Read more about José Bohr at www.todotango.com

Listen and buy:

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  • 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.

Ver este artículo en español

More Argentine Tango music selected for you:

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