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“Lo pasao pasó” by Carlos Di Sarli y su Orquesta Típica with Roberto Rufino in vocals, 1940.

Roberto Rufino

Singer and composer
(January 6, 1922 – February 24, 1999)

1938 was a pivotal year. Carlos Garay, Carlos Di Sarli´s agent, heard him sing the tango written by Di Sarli and Enrique Carrera Sotelo, “Milonguero viejo” and he told his principal about it. The latter included him in his orchestra, with which he could record on December 11, 1939, the tango “Corazón” by Di Sarli and Héctor Marcó.

Fame had already touched him with its magic wand and «at the age of 21 or 22, he had a unprecedented discographic record», as the journalist Jorge Sturla says.

He recorded, together with Di Sarli, forty-six numbers. Meanwhile, he had two brief breaks, with the orchestras of Alfredo Fanuele (1941) and Emilio Orlando (1942), to reunite with El Señor del Tango in 1943. Continue reading at www.todotango.com…

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"El apache argentino", Argentine Tango music sheet cover.

“El apache argentino” by Juan D’Arienzo y su Orquesta Típica, 1944.

Manuel Aróztegui

Pianist and composer (January 4, 1888 – November 14, 1938)

His devotion to music was born after he heard Pacho in 1905.

In 1912 accompanied by Paulino Facciona (violin) and Manuel Firpo (bandoneon), he appeared at the Café El Maratón (on Canning and Costa Rica). A terrible shooting ended his performances which had been carried out for six months. Probably the bandoneon attracted belligerent customers.

El Capuchino, a kind of cinema-ballroom, was the new scenery, of ambiance rather peaceful; there, his tenure lasted three years.

His first tango composition —“El apache argentino”—, was heard for the first time in 1913 there.

Withdrawn from the musical activity, later Aróztegui devoted himself to the decoration of toys that he himself peddled.

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“El africano” by Cayetano Puglisi y su Sexteto Típico, 1929.

Cayetano Puglisi

Violinist, leader, and composer.
(January 2, 1902 – November 2, 1968)

We arrive at a very important chapter in the artistic career of this great musician.

We place it in 1928, a period when the sextets blossomed.

This splendid outfit he put together is always remembered with admiration and nostalgia by lovers of good tango.

The orchestra always evidenced a trademark of quality, with a special sort of slow beat full of tango colors and a very hard-to-match richness of nuances. The crisis brought by the lack of work made this group disband. Continue reading at www.todotango.com…

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“Cuidado con los 50” by Carlos Di Sarli y su Orquesta Típica, 1954.

Ángel Villoldo

Composer and lyricist
(16 February 1861 – 14 October 1919)

It was composed as a result of the resolution issued by the Chief of Police, Colonel Ramón L. Falcón, on December 28, 1906, about words, acts and obscene gestures.

Already in 1889 a police order had established “those who publicly offend modesty with words, acts or obscene gestures” will suffer, the first time, 15 days of arrest or fifty pesos of fine.

“The police personnel are reminded of the duty attributed to them by the regulations in force, to constantly watch over morality and good manners, as well as to prevent anyone from being molested or provoked with gestures or words that infer offense to modesty; proceed with the utmost effort in the prevention of that failure and with the utmost rigor in the repression when it is attacked against ladies, girls, the elderly, people of the cult and in general of all those that because of sex, difference of strength, weakness, etc. they can not repel the aggressions or assure or persecute the authors to denounce them to the authority “.

José Gobello, “Conversando tangos” Buenos Aires: A. Peña Lillo Editor, 1976.