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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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Argentine Tango dancing with Miranda for a new group of beginners students

Argentine Tango dancing with Miranda for a new group of beginners students

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Miranda’s desire to learn Tango brought her to the Argentine Tango group Cambalache, over seventeen years ago, in her home-country Sweden.

It was with them that she started to dance, learn the poetry of the Tango music and the culture of Tango, and later on how to transmit this art to others.

At this point, Tango became a fundamental part of her life and who she is. In 2008 she moved to Paris, France…

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“Tres amigos” by Anibal Troilo y su Orquesta Tipica with Alberto Marino in vocals, 1944 (English translation of the lyrics).

“Tres amigos” by Anibal Troilo y su Orquesta Tipica with Alberto Marino in vocals, 1944 (English translation of the lyrics).

Néstor Pellicciaro, Blas Catrenau and Marcelo Solís at Milonga Parakultural in Buenos Aires.

Tres amigos

Music and lyrics: Enrique Cadícamo.

De mis páginas vividas, siempre llevo un gran recuerdo
mi emoción no las olvida, pasa el tiempo y más me acuerdo.

Tres amigos siempre fuimos
en aquella juventud…
Era el trío más mentado
que pudo haber caminado
por esas calles del sur.

¿Dónde andarás, Pancho Alsina?
¿Dónde andarás, Balmaceda?
Yo los espero en la esquina
de Suárez y Necochea…
Hoy… ninguno acude a mi cita.
Ya… mi vida toma el desvío.
Hoy… la guardia vieja me grita:
“¿Quién… ha dispersado aquel trío?”
Pero yo igual los recuerdo
mis dos amigos de ayer…

Una vez, allá en Portones, me salvaron de la muerte.
Nunca faltan encontrones cuando un pobre se divierte.
Y otra vez, allá en Barracas,
esa deuda les pagué…
Siempre juntos nos veían…
Esa amistad nos tenía
atados siempre a los tres.

English translation:

From my lived pages, I always carry a great memory
my emotion does not forget them, time passes and I remember more.

Three friends always went
in that youth …
It was the most talked about trio
who could have walked
through those southern streets.

Where will you go, Pancho Alsina?
Where will you go, Balmaceda?
I wait for you in the corner
from Suárez and Necochea …
Today … no one keeps this appointment.
Already … my life takes the detour.
Today … the old guard yells at me:
“Who … has scattered that trio?”
But I still remember them
my two friends yesterday …

Once, back in Portones, they saved me from death.
Encounters are never lacking when a poor person has fun.
And again, back in Barracas,
I paid them that debt …
They always saw us together …
That friendship had us
always tied to all three.

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“Tabernero” by Anibal Troilo y su Orquesta Típica with Francisco Fiorentino in vocals, 1941.

“Tabernero” by Anibal Troilo y su Orquesta Típica with Francisco Fiorentino in vocals, 1941.

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Miguel Cafre

Singer, guitarist and composer (25 March 1881 – 18 November 1936)

He began to sing and to accompany himself in his childhood. When he was a teenager, he studied singing, and as a professional, he made endless tours of the interior of Argentina and Uruguay.

A friend of Gardel’s at the time when they were both unknown once went out with the former and said to his relatives, «So long» but returned two months later.

They had been singing at so many guitar parties that they later forgot to return!

He was a prolific author, but he did not publish the large number of pieces he wrote.

The one that did not fall into oblivion is “Tabernero (El tabernero)”.

Read more about Miguel Cafre 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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“El trompito” by Ángel D’Agostino y su Orquesta Típica with Ángel Vargas in vocals, 1943; (English translation of the lyrics).

“El trompito” by Ángel D’Agostino y su Orquesta Típica with Ángel Vargas in vocals, 1943; (English translation of the lyrics).

Blas Clemente Catrenau at the milonga, showing of his great style of Argentine Tango dancing.

“El Trompito”

Music & Lyrics: Enrique Cadícamo.

“The little top”

I was born in a remote neighborhood,
back in the slaughterhouses,
and since I was only a child,
I danced Tango well milonguero.

The bandoneon was my godfather
in my distant childhood
and in the humble crowded dancings
I saw the cart drivers dance.
And that’s why I have a good sense for Tango,
because in the fandango
I saw it, and I learned it.

The “corrida” sideways
it is necessary, guys,
like the drink to the drunk,
like the knife to the barbecue.
The “ocho”, che! has to braid
rocking the girl
and provocatively
the “sentada” must be lead.

I am for Tango like a spinning top,
I am a skillful dancer.
When I go out to the milonga
they try to copy
my way of dancing.
In the “cortes” I play lame
and in the turns, with care,
for the dexterity I have
they call me “The Oiled”.

I’m for Tango like a spinning top
because the bellows is a thread.

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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.

We have lots more music and history

Learn to dance Argentine Tango