Tag: investigation

“Fumando espero” by Donato Racciatti y su Orquesta Típica with Olga Delgrossi in vocals, 1962.

Olga Delgrossi

Singer (12 July 1932 – )

In 1957 Olga was summoned by the most popular orchestra in Montevideo: Donato Racciatti’s, which played in a style after D’Arienzo’s.

She was the vocalist for seven years.

With Racciatti she made many recordings and tours throughout the interior of Uruguay.

They as well appeared at balls, on the radio, at theaters and at the early television productions.

Among her greatest hits on record at this period is “Fumando espero”.

Ver este artículo en español

Listen and buy:

Amazon music
iTunes music
Spotify

More Argentine Tango music selected for you:

We have lots more music and history

How to dance to this music?

Share
Tweet
Share
Pin
More

“Total pa’qué sirvo” by Aníbal Troilo y su Orquesta Típica with Francisco Fiorentino in vocals, 1941.

Aníbal Troilo

Bandoneon player, leader and composer. (11 July 1914 – 19 May 1975)

He was spellbound by the bandoneon when he heard its sound at cafés in his neighborhood.

He was ten when he persuaded his mother into buying one for him.

His first encounter with an audience was when he was eleven, on a stage near El Abasto, a noisy market of fruit and vegetables, today transformed into a shopping-center.

In 1941 he started recording with his emblematic singer, Francisco Fiorentino.

As composer, Troilo contributed an extensive number of major works. Among them: “Total pa’qué sirvo”.

Ver este artículo en español

Listen and buy:

Amazon music
iTunes music
Spotify

More Argentine Tango music selected for you:

We have lots more music and history

How to dance to this music?

Share
Tweet
Share
Pin
More

Don Juan, Argentine Tango music sheet cover.

“Don Juan” by Carlos Di Sarli y su Orquesta Típica, 1941.

Ernesto Ponzio

Violinist and composer (July 10, 1885 – October 21, 1934)

The well-known tango “Don Juan (El taita del barrio)” was, apparently, written in 1898.

We also know that its 2nd edition bears a lyric written by Ricardo J. Podestá.

According to different authors, it premiered at the dancehall run by Concepción Amaya, Mamita, Lavalle 2177, around 1900.

It was enthusiastically aired at the J. Hansen’s restaurant (Sarmiento Ave.) or the Casares kiosk.

Listen and buy:

Amazon music
iTunes music
Spotify

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.

Ver este artículo en español

More Argentine Tango music selected for you:

We have lots more music and history

How to dance to this music?

Share
Tweet
Share
Pin
More

Argentine Tango dancing with Miranda at our virtual class

A dancer, a true dancer (and, again, this is a matter of taste), is made of a continual reshaping of habits, endless strengthening, advancing “step by step” (metaphorically and literally) in his/her transformations, carefully demanding from himself/herself the maintenance of a conscious awareness of the totality of existence, where no aspect of life is neglected, neither duty nor joy.