Milonga del Centro playlist, Feb 1 2015

I reviewed the previous Del Centro playlist thinking how many facets of Di Sarli's 42 years of music I've left unexplored. Closing a few of those gaps today, starting from his mature period's instrumentals (rather than from the 1950s beautiful instrumental records which I've played in the opening tandas too many times!)
01. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental  "Ensueños" 1943 2:44
02. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental  "Marejada" 1941 2:32
03. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental  "Siete Palabras" 1945 2:44
04. Goran Bregovic  "Old Home Movie" 1993 0:25
For the classic D'Arienzo tanda, I tried to pick a few of the "relatively" more melodic pieces
05. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental  "Derecho viejo" 1939 2:21
06. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental  "Melodia porteña" 1937 2:48
07. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental  "Que noche" 1937 2:30

The milonga just barely started yet the dancing pairs
already begin to fill Del Centro's beautiful space

08. Victor Tsoy  "Gruppa Krovi (cortina)"  0:36

The other day, a linguist facebook friend has posted an image of a Russian icon of Simeon's Prophecy (Luke 2:29–35) and ... it instantly reminded me that I haven't played Troilo's valses for a long time! Yes, the connection here is in the third of the valses, which sings of Our Lady of Sorrows and the tears of the heart pierced by the seven blades of the Prophecy. That's how my own heart cries of pain of not seeing you, continue the verses!
09. Aníbal Troilo - Floreal Ruiz, Alberto Marino  "Palomita blanca" 1944 3:21
10. Anibal Troilo - Floreal Ruiz  "Lloraras, Lloraras" 1945 2:52
11. Aníbal Troilo - Floreal Ruiz, Edmundo Rivero  "Lagrimitas de mi corazón" 1948 2:59
12. "Lady Be Good - Sol Hoopii Trio" 0:23
13. Enrique Rodriguez - Armando Moreno "Como Se Pianta La Vida" 1940 2:25
14. Enrique Rodriguez - Armando Moreno  "El encopao" 1942 2:34
15. Enrique Rodríguez - Armando Moreno "Llorar por una mujer" 1941 2:47
16. Goran Bregovic  "Old Home Movie" 1993 0:25
Podesta was still a teenager when he recorded these hits with Di Sarli, but what depth of talent!
17. Carlos Di Sarli - Alberto Podestá  "No esta" 1942 2:45
18. Carlos Di Sarli - Alberto Podestá  "Lloran las campanas" 1944 2:58
19. Carlos Di Sarli - Alberto Podestá  "Nada" 1944 2:45
20. The Blues Brothers  "Theme From Rawhide 3" 1980 0:20
The slower milongas, including the two Canaro - Famá 1933 classics which literally blazed the trail of the rebirth of milonga dance - before the dancers and the musicians got even more courageous and the tempos accelerated
21. Francisco Canaro - Ernesto Famá  "Milonga sentimental" 1933 3:10
22. Francisco Canaro - Ernesto Famá  "Milonga del 900" 1933 2:55
23. Francisco Canaro - Roberto Maida  "Larga las penas" 1935 3:09
24. "Lady Be Good - Sol Hoopii Trio" 0:23
I love the intensity and drive of these more rhythmic Donato records (even though I'm always torn between played them and choosing more romantic Donato's ... so much great music, so few tandas in a night!). It may be the first time I played "A media luz", probably the most famous of Edgardo Donato's compositions, so popular with the musicians that it's got a zillion of "not for the dancers" versions. But for us tangueros, I think Donato's original recording of this ballad of a downtown drugs-and-vice den of hushed lights is absolutely the best.
25. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos "Lagrimas" 1939 2:50
26. Edgardo Donato - Lita Morales, Romeo Gavioli "Yo Te Amo" 1940 2:50
27. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos "A Media Luz" 1941 2:31
28. Goran Bregovic  "Old Home Movie" 1993 0:25
Whenever I played Demare's tangos, I was always drawn to the dramatic vocals with Juan Carlos Miranda, and overlooked Demare's other excellent records with Horacio Quintana. This tanda tries to fix this omission: 
29. Lucio Demare - Horacio Quintana "Torrente" 1944 3:10
30. Lucio Demare - Horacio Quintana "Igual que un bandoneon" 1945 3:02
31. Lucio Demare - Horacio Quintana "Solamente ella" 1944 3:15
32. Victor Tsoy  "Gruppa Krovi (cortina)"  0:36
33. Alfredo de Angelis - Floreal Ruiz "Mi novia de ayer (vals)" 1944 2:36
34. Alfredo de Angelis - Carlos Dante  "A Magaldi" 1947 2:50
35. Alfredo de Angelis - Carlos Dante, Julio Martel  "Soñar y nada más" 1944 3:08
36. "Lady Be Good - Sol Hoopii Trio" 0:23
"Watch out for the cops!" - "Ahh, they caught me!!" - "Yes, I've been imprisoned by her beautiful eyes, and I may never see freedom again" - that's about how the opening verse of "Araca la cana" would sound in English...
37. Osvaldo Fresedo - Roberto Ray  "Araca la cana" 1933 2:26
38. Osvaldo Fresedo - Roberto Ray "Vida mia" 1933 3:23
39. Osvaldo Fresedo - Roberto Ray "Nieblas del riachuelo" 1937 2:25
40. Goran Bregovic  "Old Home Movie" 1993 0:25
Some of my favorite Di Sarli's in this 1940 tanda, energetic and literally bursting with rhythm:
41. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental  "La trilla" 1940 2:21
42. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental  "Shusheta" 1940 2:22
43. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental  "Nobleza de arrabal" 1940 2:07
44. The Blues Brothers  "Theme From Rawhide 3" 1980 0:20

Milonga lover's tanda (the strange cackling sounds in "Cacareando" are actually an old one-eyed tired rooster's cock-a-doodle-doo, and an old hen's cluck-cluck, which sound "quiquiriquí" and "co-có" in Spanish)
45. Orquesta Tipica Victor - Mariano Balcarce "Milonga De Los Fortines" 1937 2:52
46. Orquesta Tipica Victor - Carlos Lafuente "Cacareando" 1933 2:45
47. Emilio Pellejero - Enalmar De Maria "Mi Vieja Linda" 1941 2:26
48. "Lady Be Good - Sol Hoopii Trio" 0:23

Ledesma and Lesica sing together, with Varela behind them
(from Tangos al Bardo)

I think I spent the longest time piecing together this dramatic tanda, then worrying that it won't fly - only to see the floor full of dancers, phew :) It must have been my only 2nd time to play either Varela or Ledesma, and the very first tanda where they appeared together. But we've just celebrated Hector Varela's 101th anniversary on Jan. 29th, and it was absolutely worth a tribute. Varela had a long career as a bandoneonist and arranger for Juan D'Arienzo, and when he assembled his own band in the 1950s, most people expected a kind of D'Arienzo remixed. But the sound of Varela's tangos turned out to be very, very different, and his melodic and dramatic tangos are much loved by many older Argentines who grew up listening to radio and TV in the 1960s and 1970s. Varela's orchestra was truly blessed by the voice of Argentino Ledesma, one of the most talented singers of Argentine tango. In 1956 Ledesma left Varela to join the Di Sarli's orchestra; their collaboration was nothing short of stunning and it could have produced our best tandas ever, had it lasted. But after just a few months, Columbia Records realized just how much it lost with the departure of Ledesma from their orchestra (led by Hector Varela), and they made the singer a generous counter-offer he couldn't resist. Carlos Di Sarli understood. But he regretted the lost opportunity until his death.

María Olivera & Gustavo dance to "Fueron tres años"
in a video Maria posted as a tribute for Varela's birthday

49. Héctor Varela - Argentino Ledesma  "Fueron tres años" 1956 3:28
50. Héctor Varela - Argentino Ledesma "Muchacha" 1956 3:19
51. Héctor Varela - Argentino Ledesma "Si me hablaras corazon" 1956 3:18
52. Goran Bregovic  "Old Home Movie" 1993 0:25
53. Ricardo Tanturi - Enrique Campos "Oigo Tu Voz" 1943 3:07
54. Ricardo Tanturi - Enrique Campos "Que nunca me falte" 1943 2:42
55. Ricardo Tanturi - Enrique Campos "La Abandone Y No Sabia" 1944 2:47

56. Victor Tsoy  "Gruppa Krovi (cortina)"  0:36
57. Rodolfo Biagi - Alberto Lagos  "Amor y vals" 1942 2:48
58. Rodolfo Biagi - Teofilo Ibanez  "Viejo porton (vals)" 1938 2:27
59. Rodolfo Biagi - Jorge Ortiz  "Cuatro palabras (vals)" 1941 2:20
60. "Lady Be Good - Sol Hoopii Trio" 0:23
61. Lucio Demare - Juan Carlos Miranda  "Malena" 1942 2:57
62. Lucio Demare - Juan Carlos Miranda  "No te apures, Carablanca" 1942 3:29
63. Lucio Demare - Juan Carlos Miranda  "Manana zarpa un barco" 1942 3:22
64. Goran Bregovic  "Old Home Movie" 1993 0:25
65. Pedro Laurenz - Alberto Podestá  "Alma de bohemio" 1943 2:43
66. Pedro Laurenz - Alberto Podestá  "Recien" 1943 2:43
67. Pedro Laurenz - Alberto Podestá  "Todo" 1943 2:37
68. The Blues Brothers  "Theme From Rawhide 3" 1980 0:20
And the final milonga tanda is ... the Aces of Candombe!
69. Miguel Caló - Raúl Berón  "Azabache" 1942 3:05
70. Alberto Castillo  "El Gatito en el Tejado" 1957 2:37
71. Romeo Gavioli y su orquesta típica  "Tamboriles" 1956 2:56
72. "Lady Be Good - Sol Hoopii Trio" 0:23
73. Carlos di Sarli - Roberto Rufino  "Adiós te vas" 1943 2:30
74. Carlos di Sarli - Roberto Rufino  "Charlemos" 1941 2:30
75. Carlos di Sarli - Roberto Rufino  "Patotero sentimental" 1941 2:34
76. Goran Bregovic  "Old Home Movie" 1993 0:25
... then cutting straight to Pugliese and the Gran Finale.
77. Osváldo Pugliese - Instrumental "Chique" 1943 3:14
78. Osvaldo Pugliese - Roberto Chanel  "Rondando tu esquina" 1945 2:48
79. Osvaldo Pugliese - Jorge Maciel  "Remembranza" 1956 3:41
80. Alfredo de Angelis - Instrumental "La cumparsita (Matos Rodriguez)" 1961 3:33
81. Goran Bregovic  "Maki Maki" 2009 3:33
(plus another post-Cumparsita track, by a special request from Jose Luis)
82. Hugo Diaz   "Milonga Para Una Armonica" 1973 4:25
(82 total)