Practica del Centro playlist, March 9 2015

I had an ambitious plan to play 3 hours of music without any overlaps with the previous Friday's playlist, and now I think I should have checked my ambition. DJ's table is simply not the right place for a "show of provess"! I definitely see how I could have rounded several of these tandas more smoothly if I stopped worrying about repeating what I played 3 nights earlier. But then it still worked quite well both for the dancers and for expanding my horizon. It could have made me really happy if we had better attendance. I guess after the first work day after $%#^@ daylight savings time switch, too many tangueros feel too sleepy for a practica :)

So eager to retry this tanda again mid-milonga, with couples on the floor! It's a funny quandary, one doesn't want to play so-so music and one doesn't want to expend good music for the sacrificial opening tanda which isn't being danced :)
01. Orquesta Típica Víctor (dir. Adolfo Carabelli) - Instrumental  "El chamuyo" 1930 2:46
02. Orquesta Tipica Victor (dir. Adolfo Carabelli)  "Nino bien" 1928 2:43
03. Orquesta Tipica Victor, A. Gomez  "Ventarron" 1933 3:03
04. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental  "Nobleza de arrabal" 1940 2:07
05. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental  "Catamarca" 1940 2:23
06. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental  "La trilla" 1940 2:21
quickly adding two more tandas of "lesson-appropriate music" per Julianne's request:
07. Carlos Di Sarli Instrumental "9 Puntos" 3:25
08. Carlos Di Sarli Instumental "Viviani" 3:00
09. Carlos Di Sarli Instrumental "El Ingeniero" 3:16
10. Francisco Canaro - Ernesto Famá  "Al subir al bajar" 1939 3:05
11. Francisco Canaro - Ernesto Famá  "Tormenta" 1939 2:38
12. Francisco Canaro - Ernesto Famá  "Te quiero todavia" 1939 2:54
13. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental  "El esquinazo" 1938 2:34
14. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental  "Milonga vieja milonga" 1937 2:41
15. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental  "De pura cepa (milonga)" 1935 2:41
16. Osvaldo Fresedo Roberto Ray "No quiero verte llorar" 1937 2:42
17. Osvaldo Fresedo Roberto Ray "Recuerdo de bohemia" 1935 2:36
18. Osvaldo Fresedo Roberto Ray "Yo no se llorar" 1933 2:36
19. Osvaldo Fresedo - Roberto Ray  "Tu piel de jazmin" 1950 3:09
I already wrote about Francisco Canaro's earliest quintet here. Really slick instrumentals!
20. Quinteto Don Pancho - Instrumental "El garron" 1938 2:27
21. Quinteto Don Pancho - Instrumental  "El flete (clean)" 1939 2:55
22. Quinteto Don Pancho - Instrumental  "Derecho viejo" 1938 2:28

Francisco Rotundo

An adventurous 1950s vals tanda. Rotundo's one-of-a-kind "Viejo vals" is often paired with Biagi's Adoracion, but what else to add to complete a tanda? As it is often the case with mixed-orchestra tandas, one is tempted to look amid other rare hard-to-match pieces, and that's how Salamanca's unusual vals "Ansiedad" got my attention here. I wrote a bt about Fulvio Salamanca before; let me introduce Rotundo now.
Francisco Rotundo taught piano in a conservatory before turning his passion for tango, and especially for tango singers, into a career. We don't play Rotundo's records too often, but in his glory days (late 1940s and 1950s) he was all the rage, especially famed for luring fantastic vocalists from the far better established orchestras - such stars as "Tata" Floreal Ruiz (after shelling tens of thousands pesos to RCA Victor to compensate them for the singer's termination of contract with Troilo) and Enrique Campos from Tanturi's orchestra (the Campos-Ruiz duet produced the best selling ever record of Rotundo's - this amazing vals). Close ties with the Peronism and personally with Peron's family got Rotundo banned from the airways and the music scene (and his wife, jailed), and so he's far less known to the older generation of today's Argentines than to the previous generation.
(+ Today is the birthday of Enrique Campos, a great occasion to showcase one of his most successful records!)
23. Rodolfo Biagi - Hugo Duval y Carlos Heredia  "Adoracion (vals)" 1951 2:52
24. Francisco Rotundo - Enrique Campos y Floreal Ruiz "El viejo vals" 1951 2:56
25. Fulvio Salamanca - Armando Guerrico "Ansiedad" 1959 2:41
26. Pedro Laurenz - Alberto Podestá  "Garua" 1943 3:09
27. Pedro Láurenz - Alberto Podestá  "Nunca tuvo novio" 1943 3:14
28. Pedro Laurenz - Alberto Podestá  "Recien" 1943 2:43
29. Pedro Laurenz - Hector Farrel  "Abandono" 1937 2:32
30. Juan D'Arienzo - Alberto Echagüe  "Mandria" 1939 2:26
31. Juan D'Arienzo - Alberto Echagüe  "Ansiedad" 1938 2:38
32. Juan D'Arienzo - Alberto Echagüe  "No mientas" 1938 2:39
33. Pedro Laurenz - Alberto Podestá  "Yo soy de San Telmo" 1943 2:32
34. Pedro Laurenz - Juan Carlos Casas "Milonga compadre" 1938 2:42
35. Pedro Láurenz - Martín Podestá "La vida es una milonga" 1941 2:25
36. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos, Romeo Gavioli, Lita Morales "Sinfonía De Arrabal" 1940 3:07
37. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos  "Te busco" 1941 2:26
38. Edgardo Donato - Romeo Gavioli "La Melodía Del Corazón" 1940 3:18
Beautiful oldies!
39. Sexteto Carlos di Sarli - Ernesto Famá "La estancia" 1930 3:25
40. Sexteto Carlos di Sarli - Ernesto Famá "Flora" 1930 2:38
41. Sexteto Carlos di Sarli - Ernesto Famá "Chau pinela" 1930 2:36
42. Ricardo Tanturi - Alberto Castillo  "La serenata (Mi amor)" 1941 2:32
43. Ricardo Tanturi - Alberto Castillo  "Recuerdo" 1941 2:24
44. Ricardo Tanturi - Alberto Castillo  "Mi romance" 1941 2:19
45. Francisco Canaro - Roberto Maida "Condena (S.O.S.)" 1937 2:39
46. Francisco Canaro - Roberto Maida "Recuerdos De Paris" 1937 3:12
47. Francisco Canaro - Roberto Maida "Solo una novia" 1935 3:23
48. Francisco Lomutoo - Fernando Diaz  "Quiero verte una vez mas" 1940 2:29
49. Francisco Lomuto - Jorge Omar  "Por la vuelta" 1939 2:34
50. Francisco Lomuto - Jorge Omar  "Nostalgias" 1936 3:05
Yes, the voice of Jorge Maciel makes Pugliese's Remembranza outshine all the other versions for me ... but in a tanda built around "Gitana Rusa", doesn't Malerba's Remembranza hit the spot?(I wrote about the tragic story of "Gitana Rusa" before)
51. Ricardo Malerba - Orlando Medina "Remembranza" 1943 2:52
52. Ricardo Malerba - Orlando Medina "La piba de los jazmines" 1943 2:44
53. Ricardo Malerba - Orlando Medina "Gitana rusa" 1942 2:47
the final song of de Angelis's tanda didn't really match up with the strength of the opening classics
54. Alfredo de Angelis - Instrumental  "Mi dolor" 1957 2:51
55. Alfredo de Angelis - Instrumental  "Pavadita" 1958 2:55
56. Alfredo De Angelis Oscar Larroca "Noche De Locura" 1954 2:28
I continue to ponder Momo Smitt's Albuquerque 2014 playlist, and two of the more modern records of this high-energy tanda came from there:
57. Fervor de Buenos Aires  "E.G.B." 2007 2:26
58. The Alex Krebs Tango Sextet  "La Yumba" 2011 2:57
59. Ojos De Tango  "El Adios"  3:13
Slow, dreamy milongas
60. Alfredo de Angelis - Roberto Mancini  "La milonga celestial" 1964 3:22
61. Erskine Maytorena Qtango  "Milonga Triste" 2011 4:17
62. Paco Mendoza & DJ Vadim  "Los Ejes De Mi Carreta" 2013 3:23
63. Osvaldo Pugliese "Rondando Tu Esquina" 1945 2:49
64. Osvaldo Pugliese "Recuerdo" 2:54
65. Osvaldo Pugliese "Gallo Ciego"  3:34
66. Alfredo de Angelis - Instrumen  "La cumparsita (Matos Rodriguez)" 1961 3:33
67. 17 Hippies  "Marlène" 2005 3:54
(67 total)