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“El Marne” by Juan D’Arienzo y su Orquesta Típica, 1939.

“El Marne” by Juan D’Arienzo y su Orquesta Típica, 1939.

Eduardo Arolas

Bandoneonist, composer and leader (24 February 1892 – 29 September 1924)

As a composer, Arolas took Tango to a more elaborate level with the force of his originality.

“El Marne”, of 1919, is a true concerto of advanced structure for its time.

It needed to wait for qualified musicians to deliver the message of its notes.

Let’s listen to the rendition of the Maestro Juan D’Arienzo with Juan Polito at the piano:

Read more about Eduardo Arolas and the History of Tango

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“Qué bien te queda” by Osvaldo Pugliese y su Orquesta Típica with Roberto Chanel in vocals, 1943 (with English translation of the lyrics).

“Qué bien te queda” by Osvaldo Pugliese y su Orquesta Típica with Roberto Chanel in vocals, 1943 (with English translation of the lyrics).

Vinyl record of the Argentine Tango

Qué bien te queda (Cómo has cambiado)

Music: Vicente Salerno. Lyrics: Juan Mazaroni.

Brother, modernism has defeated you,
your figure from yesterday also changed,
It only remains in your melodious bars
the past heart to heart.

You already walked away from the suburb that saw you
under the throbbing light of a lantern,
that outlined your whimsical figure
dancing to the chords, from a little organ to the beat.

How good it fits you, how much you have changed,
and in this framework of distinction,
you are entangling the hearts
between laments of a bandoneon.

The skyscrapers full of wonder
wearing tuxedo, they see you coming.

How good it looks for you, Argentine Tango,
soul song, immortal song…

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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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“Inspiración” by Anibal Troilo y su Orquesta Típica, 1943.

“Inspiración” by Anibal Troilo y su Orquesta Típica, 1943.

Music sheet cover of the Tango

A classic of the genre

“Inspiración” was premiered in 1918.

It was first known under another title: “6ª del R. 2”, a suggestion by Niels Jorge to his brother, the author. It was dedicated to the Sixth Company of the 2nd Regiment of Infantry, in which Niels had complied with his military service.

Peregrino Paulos (h), the composer, died at a young age and was unable to witness even the first signs of acclaim of his best conceived tango.

In 1922, with the classic title, the tango “Inspiración” was recorded by the Roberto Firpo orchestra. Later it was forgotten until Pedro Maffia, with his orchestra in 1929, played it again. Among its members were Osvaldo Pugliese on piano and Elvino Vardaro on violin. “Inspiración” was heard again in the evenings at the Pelikan cabaret, where the outfit received the unanimous acclaim of the audience.

n 1943, two great orchestras recorded it: Miguel Caló (in an arrangement by Osmar Maderna) and Aníbal Troilo (in a performance by Astor Piazzolla).

Read more about “Inspiración” 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!

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“El sueño del pibe” by Ricardo Tanturi y su Orquesta Típica with Enrique Campos in vocals, 1945.

“El sueño del pibe” by Ricardo Tanturi y su Orquesta Típica with Enrique Campos in vocals, 1945.

Reinaldo Yiso

Lyricist (April 6, 1915 – December 15, 1978)

He played soccer for his neighborhood club, but his expectations of playing in the first division were cut off when he broke one of his legs.

In 1941 Ricardo Tanturi premiered his first title, and in 1945 recorded “El sueño del pibe”.

The subject of soccer approached in this tango produced a widespread popular lyric.

In “El sueño del pibe”, the author reminisces about his youth, when he was full of happiness and illusion.

Read more about Reinaldo Yiso at www.todotango.com

Listen and buy:

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!

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“Viva el Tango” by Raúl Garello y su Orquesta Típica with Roberto Goyeneche in vocals, 1991 (with English translation of the lyrics).

“Viva el Tango” by Raúl Garello y su Orquesta Típica with Roberto Goyeneche in vocals, 1991 (with English translation of the lyrics).

Roberto Goyeneche, Astor Piazzolla & Horacio Ferrer. Argentine Tango music and poetry.

Viva el Tango

Music: Raúl Garello. Lyrics: Horacio Ferrer

English translation:

So you don’t like Gotán (Tango), che?
I’m sorry, too bad for you.

Don Campoamor already announce it:
“Everything is according to the glass…”

Our Tango as the “laurel
that we knew how to achieve” (verse from Argentine anthem),
pucha! how good!, how cute is it
what I feel here.

Long live Tango, long live Tango!
brave mix of passion and thought,
Long live tango, which is played
with modesty of laughter at a burial.

Long live Tango, which is a fresco
of madonas, casanovas and cornelios (cuckolds),
human comedy that to the bad and the good,
the cute and ugly
scribbled it from its real look.

Do you see eternity going
with the phrasing of a sensual Tango?:
taria ta tara ta
taria ta tara ta,
classical music of today.

With the ritual dimmed light
and the bar chairs turned upside down,
in two by four drink
slowly and get out
fatiguing sidewalks.
Two, that by disappearing
at dawn
they make love tangos.

So you don’t like Gotán, che?
that it’s a crybaby and is from yesterday? so what?
you have to know if the one who suffered
is not the one who laughs afterwards.

Not a Gotán knew that wise man
who died of so much knowledge
and to the drawer (coffin) went without knowing
that his wife did not love him.

Long live Tango, long live Tango!
with its rhythm of blows against the wind,
Long live the Tango that is danced
with sex in poetic suspense.

Long live Tango, who is a friend
for every loneliness and every encounter,
Long live Tango, all Tango,
God bless our Tango every day.

“Sur, Qué noche, Percal, La Yumba,
Silbando, Adiós Nonino, El choclo,
Divina, El Marne, Uno, El andariego,
Milonguita, Vida mía, A fuego lento,
El motivo, Bahía Blanca, La bordona,
Flores negras, Che papusa, La Tablada,
Mala junta, Suerte loca, La mariposa,
Volver.”

For all the Tango
goes this toast of my soul
and with the Río de la Plata
I get drunk with emotion.

And long live Tango
and this love with which I sing it,
because I, I am Tango,
Long live Tango, and long live me!

Original en castellano:

¿Que el Gotán no le gusta, che?
Siento mucho, peor pa’ usted.
Ya lo batió don Campoamor:
“Todo es según el cristal…”

Tango nuestro como el laurel
que supiéramos conseguir,
pucha ¡qué bien!, qué lindo es
esto que aquí siento yo.

Viva el Tango, ¡viva el Tango!
mezcla brava de pasión y pensamiento,
viva el tango, que se toca
con pudor de carcajada en un entierro.

Viva el Tango, que es un fresco
de madonas, casanovas y cornelios,
comedia humana que a lo malo y a lo bueno,
que a lo lindo y a lo feo
lo escrachó del natural.

¿Ves que va la eternidad
al frasear de un tanguito sensual?:
taria ta tara ta
taria ta tara ta,
música clásica de hoy.

Con la media luz ritual
y las sillas del bar dadas vuelta,
en dos por cuatro beber
lerdamente y salir
fatigando veredas.
Dos, que al desaparecer
por el amanecer
hacen tangos de amor.

¿Que el Gotán no le gusta, che?
que es llorón y es de ayer ¿y qué?
hay que saber si el que penó
no es el que ríe después.

Ni un Gotán supo el sabio aquel
que de tanto saber murió
y pa’l cajón fue sin saber
que su mujer no lo amó.

Viva el Tango, ¡viva el Tango !
con su ritmo de trompadas contra el viento,
viva el Tango que se baila
con el sexo en un poético suspenso.

Viva el Tango, que es compinche
para cada soledad y cada encuentro,
viva el Tango, todo el Tango,
Dios bendiga cada día el Tango nuestro.

Sur, Qué noche, Percal, La Yumba,
Silbando, Adiós Nonino, El choclo,
Divina, El Marne, Uno, El andariego,
Milonguita, Vida mía, A fuego lento,
El motivo, Bahía Blanca, La bordona,
Flores negras, Che papusa, La Tablada,
Mala junta, Suerte loca, La mariposa,
Volver.

Por todo el Tango
va este brindis de mi alma
y con el Río de la Plata
me emborracho de emoción.

Y viva el Tango
y este amor con que lo canto,
porque yo, yo soy el Tango,
¡viva el Tango, y viva yo!

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