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“Que me quiten lo bailao” by Ricardo Tanturi y su Orquesta Típica with Alberto Castillo in vocals, 1943 (English translation).

“Que me quiten lo bailao” by Ricardo Tanturi y su Orquesta Típica with Alberto Castillo in vocals, 1943 (English translation).

Alberto Castillo, great Argentine Tango singer

“Try to get the dance out of me”

Music & Lyrics: Miguel Bucino.

Open hand with men, and rightful in any situation,
I have two brave passions: the gamble and the liquor …

I’m a dancer of the good school, there is no milonga where I am out of place.

Sometimes I’m penniless and other times I’m like a lord.
What do you want me to do, brother? If it is a gift from fate!
If the desire to save money has never been my virtue!
I am electrified by bubbles and feminine eyes
Since those sweet days of my joyous youth!

But i don’t regret
of those beautiful moments
that I fully committed myself in life.
I had everything I wanted …
and even what I didn’t want
the fact is that I enjoyed it.
My conduct was serene,
I was lavish in the good
and in the bad I cringed.
I was a tycoon and a tramp
and today I know the world so well
that I prefer to be like this.

What do you want me to do, brother, if I was born to die poor,
with a tango between the lips and in a card game entangled.
I play, sing, drink, laugh … and although I don’t have a copper left,
when the last hour rang … get the dance out of me!

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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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“El moro” by Ricardo Tanturi y su Orquesta Típica with Alberto Castillo in vocals, 1941.

“El moro” by Ricardo Tanturi y su Orquesta Típica with Alberto Castillo in vocals, 1941.

Juan María Gutiérrez, portrait. Argentine Tango.

Juan María Gutiérrez

Poet, writer and politician (6 May 1809 – 26 February 1878)

He was, perhaps, the most complete man of Argentine letters of his time.

He traveled to Europe and countries of the American continent; he was a constituent congressman in 1853, minister of the Argentine Confederacy, and rector of the University of Buenos Aires.

He collected his polished, passionate poems in 1869 and published a selection of them in a volume.

Among them is “Endecha del Gaucho”, which, with some arrangement by Gardel-Razzano, the duo recorded nearly fifty years later under the title “El moro”.

Read more about Juan María Gutiérrez 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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“La copa del olvido” by Ricardo Tanturi y su Orquesta Típica with Alberto Castillo in vocals, 1942.

“La copa del olvido” by Ricardo Tanturi y su Orquesta Típica with Alberto Castillo in vocals, 1942.

Alberto Vaccarezza, Argentine Tango author and lyricists.

Alberto Vaccarezza

Lyricist and theatral writer (1 April 1886 – 6 August 1959)

He arrived to song writing by means of theater, for which he found the suitable formula.

Until radio appeared and even some years later, theater was the instrument to spread popular songs. 

Either drama or comedy, always the plays included among their characters a singer or a young female singer. Most times they hired well-known names to attract the interest of audiences.

Read more about Alberto Vaccarezza at www.todotango.com

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“Esta noche me emborracho” by Ricardo Tanturi y su Orquesta Típica with Alberto Castillo, 1942.

“Esta noche me emborracho” by Ricardo Tanturi y su Orquesta Típica with Alberto Castillo, 1942.

Enrique Santos Discépolo, Argentine Tango composer and author.

Enrique Santos Discépolo

Poet, composer, actor and playwright. (27 March 1901 – 23 December 1951)

Unlike other popular creators who displayed their talent in an instinctive and somewhat naïve way to be later recognized as future exegetes, Discépolo was always conscious of his contribution.

It could also be stated that all his artistic renderings were articulated by common sense, a certain Discepolian air or spirit which people immediately recognizes with affection and admiration as if his work —more than once defined as prophetic— should express the common sense of the Argentines.

Discépolo´s singularity keeps on disquieting either in the tango universe or outside it. 

While most of his contemporaries are today strange to new generations, he persists, is in force. 

Or to say it with one of his most loved images: he keeps on biting.

The luck of the stubborn author started in 1928 when he composed “Esta noche me emborracho”.

Read more about Enrique Santos Discépolo at www.todotango.com

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“Bailongo de los domingos” by Ricardo Tanturi y su Orquesta Típica with Alberto Castillo in vocals, 1943.

“Bailongo de los domingos” by Ricardo Tanturi y su Orquesta Típica with Alberto Castillo in vocals, 1943 (with English translation).

Bailongo de los domingos | Argentine music to learn to dance at Escuela de Tango de Buenos Aires

Music: Oscar Arona | Lyrics: Francisco García Jiménez

Novela del bailarín
que escrita está,
un cacho en cada salón
de mi ciudad.
De la “Unione” al “Augusteo”
con ella te veo
soñando a compás.
Silenciosos van los dos
y dejás que hable por vos
la milonga en sus floreos.
Viejas quejas de pasión
renovando parejas
con este son…

Bailongo de los domingos!
Por vos ni vuelto a los pingos!
Y encadenado a tus tangos
hoy vivo cautivo
del ritmo dulzón.
Emoción hay una sola
y es llorar de bandoneones
fraseando acordes de Arolas.
Bailongo de los domingos!
Remanso del corazón!

Translation:

Dancer’s novel
written
a piece in each ballroom
of my city.
From the “Unione” to the “Augusteo”
I see you with her
dreaming in sync with the beat.
Both going silent,
and you let it the embellishments of the milonga
speak for you
Old complaints of passion
renewing couples
with this music.

Sunday’s dancing!
Because of you I stop going to the horse racings!
Chained to your tangos
I am captive
of the sweet rhythm.
Emotion there is only one
and is the crying from bandoneons
phrasing Arolas chords.
Sunday’s dancing!
Calm waters of the heart!

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