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“Una emoción” by Ricardo Tanturi y su Orquesta Típica with Enrique Campos in vocals, 1943 (English translation).

“Una emoción” by Ricardo Tanturi y su Orquesta Típica with Enrique Campos in vocals, 1943 (English translation).

Ricardo Tanturi and Enrique Campos, Argentine Tango orchestra leader and his singer.

Music: Raúl Kaplún. Lyrics: José María Suñé.

Come and see what I bring
in this union of notes and words,
it’s the song that inspired me
the evocation that cradled me last night.

It is a tango voice modulated in every corner,
by which who lives an emotion that dominates him.
I want to sing for this song
which is increasingly sweet and seductive.

Wrapped in illusion last night I heard it,
composed the emotion by things of my past,
the house where I was born,
the grate and the parral,
the old merry-go-round and the rose garden.

His accent is the sentimental voice song,
his rhythm is the compass that lives in my city,
has no pretension,
he does not want to be insolent,
is called tango and nothing else.

This emotion that I bring,
was born in my voice full of nostalgia.
I feel a bark of rebellion when this is
his verses disguise him.

If it is so humble and so simple in its bars
why to write a bad example in every sentence?
With this rest of emotion
very easy is to reach the heart.

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

Letra original en castellano

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“Tango Brujo” by Juan D’Arienzo y su Orquesta Típica with Héctor Mauré, 1943 (English translation of the lyrics).

Argentine Tango dance classes for beginners, intermediate and advanced level. Argentine Tango dance Private lessons. one to one Argentine dance lessons. Argentine Tango dance lessons for couples. Argentine Tango Milongas and workshops. San Francisco, Lafayette, Walnut Creek, Orinda, Danville, San Jose, Cupertino, Campbell, Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Milpitas. With Marcelo Solis at Escuela de Tango de Buenos Aires.“Tango que sos un encanto
De quien escucha tus sones,
Tango que atraes corazones,
Con tus dulces cantos
Y tus bandoneones.
Sos de cuna humilde,
Y has paseado el universo,
Sin más protocolo,
Que tu música y tus versos,
Para abrirte paso
Has tenido que ser brujo,
Por tus propios medios
Lograste tu triunfo.
Tango que sos un encanto,
Hoy vive tu canto,
En mi corazón.

¡Tango!, ¡Tango!
Tango bravo, tango lindo,
Tango noble, tango guapo
Tango hermano
De mis largas noches tristes,
Compañero de mi pobre corazón.
Tango bravo, fascinante,
¡Tango brujo!,
Tango bravo, combatido,
Tango bravo,
Tango gaucho
Que a pesar de tanta contra
Defendiste con altura,
Tu bravura de varón.”

“Tango, you are an enchanter
Of those who listen to your sounds,
Tango, you attract hearts,
with your sweet songs
and your bandoneons.

You have humble origins
And traveled the universe
without more attributes
other than your music and your verses.
To open your path
you had to be a sorcerer
with your resources
you achieved success.
Tango, you are an enchantment,
today your song lives
in my heart.

Sorcerer Tango!
Brave Tango, Beautiful Tango!,
Noble Tango, courageous Tango!
Brother Tango
Of my long sad nights,
mate of my barren heart.

Fascinating courageous Tango!
Sorcerer Tango!
Brave Tango, Opposed,
Brave Tango!
Gaucho Tango,
despite the odds against you,
you loftily defend your manly bravery.”

Music and lyrics: Francisco Canaro.

“Orquestas de mi ciudad” by Anibal Troilo y su Orquesta Típica with Francisco Fiorentino in vocals, 1943.

“Orquestas de mi ciudad” by Anibal Troilo y su Orquesta Típica with Francisco Fiorentino in vocals, 1943.

Anibal Troilo and Francisco Fiorentino. Argentine tango music.

Francisco Fiorentino

Singer, bandoneon player and composer (23 September 1905 – 11 September 1955)

Fiorentino was, no doubt, the archetype of the orchestra singer, a concept which synthetically describes the main feature of tango in the 40s, when the singer was a member of the group on the same level as the musicians.

Fiorentino and Troilo achieved a well-oiled mechanism, of a perfect match where the orchestra was spotlighted in a long introduction to afterwards provide the adequate background necessary for the singer´s showcasing.

His personality, his taste and the permanent supervision by Pichuco resulted in an intimate singer of great warmth in his interpretation who knew how to touch the audience, establishing himself as a milestone in the history of tango vocalists.

More about Francisco Fiorentino at www.todotango.com

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“El 13” by Adolfo Carabelli y su Orquesta Típica with Alberto Gómez, 1932.

Adolfo Carabelli

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

The real 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 since the Victor staff has achieved the inclusion of notable musicians and chosen an attractive repertoire. Similarly, the development of orthophonic recordings reached an unexpected sound quality just a few months before.

Among the best well-known tangos of his tango orchestra (orquesta típica) are the most authentic creations he made of “Mi refugio” (1931); “Cantando” (1931, with the added vocals by Simone and Alberto Gómez as a duo), “Felicia” (1932), “Por dónde andará” (1932), “Inspiración” (1932), “Mar adentro” (1933), etc. Also, some renditions with the refrain of tangos that usually are played only instrumentally, like “Rodríguez Peña” (1932) and “El Trece” (1932), are well remembered. Read more at www.todotango.com…


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“Entre tu amor y mi amor” by Alfredo De Ángelis with Juan Carlos Godoy, 1959.

Juan Carlos Godoy

(21 August 1922 – 12 February 2016)
In the city of Campana, where «the soft water was fresher than the river», my friend interviewed today was born.

There’s a gate through which memories go back home and through that open door represented by Juan Carlos’s heart I step into his life, asking him to tell me things. Those things that are said when you are drinking mate in the shade of an old plantation and which we guess may appeal to the public who are the indisputable addressees of our songs.

«Tango began to be something that interested me by 1933 when Agustín Magaldi came to Campana. He had to appear one Sunday at the theater of the Sociedad Italiana, but he had temporarily lost his voice and was unable to sing. He then only talked to the audience and his five guitarists played instead. I was a kid but I recall that Magaldi was a good-looking man and the fact that he was there was enough to please the audience.

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