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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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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.

Letra original en castellano

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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

Listen and buy:

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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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“Arrabalero” by Osvaldo Fresedo y su Orquesta Típica, 1939.

“Arrabalero” by Osvaldo Fresedo y su Orquesta Típica, 1939.

Osvaldo Fresedo, Argentine Tango musician, leader and composer, with his orchestra.

Osvaldo Fresedo

Bandoneonist, director and composer. (5 May 1897 – 18 November 1984)

Born in Buenos Aires to a wealthy family seems to have influenced his art: his orchestra, refined and aristocratic, was the favorite of upper circles.

However, despite Osvaldo’s father being a wealthy businessman, at the age of ten, his family moved to La Paternal, a neighborhood somewhat away and humble, with flat houses in popular surroundings, which affected his destiny.

It was there where he started playing the bandoneon.

He had the longest Tango career ever found: over 1,250 recordings during 63 years.

Read more about Osvaldo Fresedo at www.todotango.com

Listen and buy:

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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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“Déjame no quiero verte más” by Carlos Di Sarli y su Orquesta Típica with Alberto Podestá in vocals, 1947 (English translation).

“Déjame no quiero verte más” by Carlos Di Sarli y su Orquesta Típica with Alberto Podestá in vocals, 1947 (English translation).

Music: Francisco Canaro / Mariano Mores. Lyrics: Ivo Pelay.

Leave me, I don’t want to see you anymore,
let me try to live in peace.

Don’t say I’m already
drunk like yesterday,
more harm than alcohol
they made me the anxieties
and the sorrows of loving.
My glass is full
of oblivion and illusion
and in it I want to sink
my despair.

Leave me, seeing you hurts me,
leave me, I can no longer.

Dazzled I loved you
as you love once,
and your life and my love
in a dream I locked up.
And today you see,
but let me
I never want to see you again
let me try to live in peace.

The shadow of your eyes,
the red of your lips,
the fire from your arms
melt into wine
with flashes of dagger.
Useless is running away
of your fascination,
useless asking
my heart to forget.

Come here, I want to see you next to me,
kiss me, without you I don’t know how to live …
Kiss me heart, kiss me heart …

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“Casas viejas” by Francisco Canaro y su Orquesta Típica with Roberto Maida in vocals, 1935.

“Casas viejas” by Francisco Canaro y su Orquesta Típica with Roberto Maida in vocals, 1935.

Ivo Pelay, at 18. Argentine Tango author.

Ivo Pelay

Lyricist, theatral writer and journalist (5 May 1893 – 28 August 1959)

He was author of a great number of theatrical works that encompassed all the genres.

He also wrote many lyrics for tangos, spiced with a genuine, clean local grace.

His prolific stage of collaboration with Francisco Canaro is outstanding.

Read more about Ivo Pelay at www.todotango.com

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