It was in the 1910s. The phrase used to be commonly heard at the record selling shops: «Give me a pacho». The vendor understood with no further explanation; he has just requested a disc.

Seen from the present days, it would seem a strange jargon, but on those days it was the most usual way, such it was the boom in sales of the recordings made by the orchestra led by Juan Maglio, who was called by his nickname Pacho, that this little word became a synonym for the discs.

He was the first bandoneonist who committed to disc bandoneon solos.

Undoubtedly, Juan Maglio (Pacho), was one of the most important musicians who followed the Guardia Vieja.

He was also a great composer.

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“As for my style, I always longed to place the piano at a different level to the one used by the typical tango orchestras: a mere accompaniment.

So when I joined D’Arienzo I succeeded in making it true.

I was with him from December 1935 until June 1938.

In 1938, I put together my own orchestra.”

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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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After various performances, he left in 1925 as a component of his brother Francisco Canaro’s orchestra to Paris, performing double bass and handsaw.

In 1926 he went to New York with the same, and at the end of that tour, he returned to France, where he led his orchestra until 1939; he returned to Buenos Aires for reasons of war after touring all of Europe with Creole and European elements which became the tango, and the Middle East.

He did not compose much music, but his first work, the tango “Sentimiento gaucho”, which he did with Francisco, exceeded the limits of popularity; he was awarded the first prize in the first tango contest of the discs Nacional in late 1924, is one of the classic tangos of all time.

Its famous lyrics are by Juan Andrés Caruso.

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.