Milonga BuenOnda playlist, 4/11/2014

Since this month's date of Buen'Onda fell on the eve of the International Space Flight Day, I added the Cosmonaut theme to the cortinas :)
The warm-up / after-class tanda is Canaro's instrumentals for a change:
01. Francisco Canaro - Instrumental "La melodia de nuestro adios" 1938 3:03
02. Francisco Canaro - Instrumental  "Pampa" 1938 2:50
03. Francisco Canaro - Instrumental  "El chamuyo" 1933 3:11

The signature track from Red Elvises 1999 "Russian Bellydance" album (they are a Russian American band from LA who famously sang "Cosmonaut Petrov" at a Red Square benefit concert in 2006). You're right, I wouldn't have known about it without the kids :)
04. Russian Elvises  "Cosmonaut Petrov 1 (-3dB)"  0:28
05. Juan d'Arienzo "El Cencerro" 1937 2:40
06. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental  "Ataniche" 1936 2:31
07. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental Soundtrack "El flete" 1936 2:58

Maya Kristalinskaya's bio in Russian

The 1966 Nezhnost' (Tenderness) is Maya Kristalinskaya's most famous of many famous hit songs, its star appeal only magnified when the song was included in the 1967 cult-following movie classic, "Three Poplars on Plyuschikha Street" (trust me, in Russian "Plyuschikha" sounds very mellifluous and old-Muscovite charming, but I realize that when Americans struggle to pronounce it, it comes out sorta Klingon harsh ;) ). Soon afterwards, Maya's Jewish roots got her blacklisted, and for the last 10 years of her very short life she was restricted to performing in small-town clubs, off TV and radio waves.  Maya's grave at Moscow's de facto Jewish cemetery, the beautiful and quaint Donskoe, is right next to the Pruss family plot. Her headstone reads, "You aren't gone, you just stepped out, you'll be back with a song". And yes, "Tenderness" is a space flight era song - it's about the void left when the dear one leaves Planet Earth.
08. Maya Kristalinskaya  "Nezhnost (Tenderness)"  0:17
09. Alfredo De Angelis - Carlos Dante - Julio Martel  "Pobre flor (1946)"  2:43
10. Alfredo de Angelis - Floreal Ruiz  "Mi novia de ayer" 1944-04-28 2:38
11. Alfredo de Angelis - Carlos Dante, Julio Martel  "Soñar y nada más" 1944-08-29 3:08
Trava u Doma (Grass Near the House) - the highlight of the 1982 Space Day celebration has been officially anointed as the anthem of Russian Space Agency in 2009. A long road for a song which started from a nostalgic ballad about the parents' house in a faraway village, the sad eyes of their cow, and, yes, grass near the house - with the space theme added, and the cow hastily deleted, just before the first performance. The 1982 version was still a mellow, nostalgic tune; but the following year, Zemlyane (The Earthlings Band) "rockified" it and powered it up, and the rest is history.
12. Zemlyane  "Trava u Doma 1"  0:19
13. Carlos Di Sarli Alberto Podesta "Junto a tu corazon"  3:00
14. Carlos Di Sarli Alberto Podesta "Nido Gaucho"  3:22
15. Carlos Di Sarli Alberto Podesta "Nada"  2:45
16. Zemlyane  "Trava u Doma 2"  0:17
17. Miguel Calo  "Corazon No Le Hagas Caso"  3:00
18. Miguel Calo  "Tristezas De La Calle Corrientes"  2:46
19. Miguel Calo  "Al Compas Del Corazon"  2:48
"Bravo" group was one of the pioneers of Russian rock revival of the 1980s (drawing much inspiration from the American 1950s), reaching nation-wide fame even before the Soviet powers-that-be finally allowed it to sell records (and their first post-black market disk sold 5,000,000 copies). Ahh, those were the days. The "Space Rock-n-Roll" is a later period record though, from the times when the group may have lost its trailblazer appeal - but remained faithful to its early-years sound. It must be added that April 12th, the Space Day, is also the unofficial birthday of Rock-n-Roll: the Comets recorded "Rock around the Clock" on this date in 1954.
20. Bravo "Space Rock-n-Roll" 1993 0:12
21. "Orquesta Tipica Victor - Milonga De Los Fortines - Mariano Balcarce" 1937,2:52
22. Orquesta Tipica Victor  "Cacareando"  2:45
23. "Emilio Pellejero - Mi Vieja Linda - Enalmar De Maria - 1941" 2:26
24. Zemlyane  "Trava u Doma 3"  0:27
25. Edgardo Donato  "Carnaval De Mi Barrio" 2:25
26. Donato, Edgardo "La Melodía Del Corazón" 1940 3:18
27. Edgardo Donato - Lita Morales - Romeo Gavio  "Mi Serenata" 1940 3:02
"I am Mother Earth" is a song from a 1963 movie about a heroic rescue of a marooned alien spaceship - as it happens, a rather unremarkable movie launched to fame several quite remarkable songs. 
28. Olga Voronets  "Ya - Zemlya (I am Mother Earth)" 0:18
29. Rodriguez, Enrique Enrique Rodriguez "En la buena y en la mala" 1940 2:26
30. Rodriguez, Enrique Enrique Rodriguez "llorar por una mujer" 1941 2:51
31. Rodriguez, Enrique Enrique Rodriguez "Danza Maligna" 1940 2:27
32. Maya Kristalinskaya  "Nezhnost (Tenderness)"  0:17
33. Edgardo Donato  "Quien Sera - vals" 2:15
34. Edgardo Donato  "Estrellita Mia - vals" 2:36
35. Edgardo Donato  "La Tapera - vals" 2:54
36. Zemlyane  "Trava u Doma 1"  0:19
I planned for a 2nd, even more powerful Laurenz tanda, but alas, run out of time for it...
37. Pedro Laurenz Juan Carlos Casas "No me extrana"  2:44
38. Pedro Láurenz - Juan Carlos Casas  "Vieja Amiga" 1938-05-12 3:12
39. Pedro Láurenz - Juan Carlos Casas  "Amurado" 1940-07-29 2:30
40. Olga Voronets  "Ya - Zemlya (I am Mother Earth)" 0:18
I had most reservations about my second Calo tanda for the night, beautiful and poetic but not energizing due to its brooding, melancholic quality. Still wanted to play "April Rains" (Lluvia de Abril) to conjure up some more precipitation ;) To my relief, the tanda played well in the energy flow. And the rain is to come on Sunday?
41. Miguel Caló - Raúl Iriarte  "La vi llegar" 1944 3:24
42. Miguel Calo - Raul Iriarte  "Lluvia de abril" 1945 2:42
43. Miguel Caló - Raúl Iriarte  "Cada día te extraño más" 1943 2:35
44. Russian Elvises  "Cosmonaut Petrov 1 (-3dB)"  0:28
45. Francisco Canaro - Instrumental  "Milonga de mis amores" 1937 3:03
46. Francisco Canaro "La Milonga de Bs As (Milonga)"  2:48
47. Francisco Canaro - Roberto Maida "Milonga criolla" 1936 3:05
48. Maya Kristalinskaya  "Nezhnost (Tenderness)"  0:17
49. Osvaldo Fresedo Roberto Ray "En la huella del dolor" 1934 2:48
50. Osvaldo Fresedo Roberto Ray "Sollosos" 1937 3:27
51. Osvaldo Fresedo Roberto Ray "Recuerdo de bohemia" 1935 2:36
52. Zemlyane  "Trava u Doma 3"  0:27
A mix of energetic, laughter-filled valses from three orchestras - we used the first track from the birthday dance for Jenna, so the tanda grew to 4 valses for everybody to join.
53. Enrique Rodriguez - Roberto Flores  "Salud Dinero Y Amor (vals)"  2:39
54. Francisco Lomuto - Fernando Diaz  "Cuando estaba enamorado" 1940 2:19
55. Orquesta Típica Víctor Orquesta Tipica Victor "Sin Rumbo Fijo (vals)" 2:18
56. Enrique Rodriguez - Roberto Flores  "Fru Fru (vals)"  2:57
57. Bravo - "Space Rock-n-Roll" 1993 0:12
58. Biagi, Rodolfo  "Humiliacion" 1941 2:42
59. Rodolfo Biagi Andrés Falgás "La Chacarera " 2:24
60. Rodolfo Biagi Andrés Falgás "Son Cosas del Bandoneon " 2:44
61. Zemlyane  "Trava u Doma 1"  0:19
62. Francisco Canaro Roberto Maida "Condena (S.O.S.)" 1937 2:39
63. Francisco Canaro  "Recuerdos De Paris - Roberto Maida - 1937" 3:12
64. Francisco Canaro - Roberto Maida  "Solo una novia" 1935 3:23
65. Russian Elvises  "Cosmonaut Petrov 2 (-2 dB)"  0:20
66. Carlos Di Sarli Roberto Rufino "La Mulateada"  2:22
67. Carlos di Sarli - Roberto Rufino  "Cuando un viejo se enamora" 1942 2:14
68. Carlos Di Sarli Roberto Rufino "Pena Mulata" 2:27
69. Maya Kristalinskaya  "Nezhnost (Tenderness)"  0:17
70. Alfredo de Angelis - Instrumental  "Mi dolor" 1957 2:51
71. Alfredo de Angelis - Carlos Dante  "Carillon de La Merced" 1957 2:50
72. Alfredo De Angelis  "Pavadita 1958" 1999 2:53
73. Russian Elvises  "Cosmonaut Petrov 1 (-3dB)"  0:28
74. Osvaldo Pugliese - Instrumental  "Gallo ciego" 1959-07-23 3:33
75. Osváldo Pugliese "Farol" 1943 3:22
76. Osvaldo Pugliese "Malandraca" 1949 2:52
77. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental  "La cumparsita" 1951 3:49
78. Arabesque  "Midnight Dancer"  3:42
79. Red Elvises "Cosmonaut Petrov" 1999 3:10
(79 total)