It was a challenging night. My laptop's hard drive died and I had to play from an old, broken down computer, and to pray that it doesn't die in turn... It hasn't been synched in ages, but luckily still had a reasonable collection :)
01. Carlos Di Sarli - Instrumental "Comme il faut" 1955 2:33
02. Carlos Di Sarli - Instrumental "El Once" 1951 2:48
03. Carlos Di Sarli - Instrumental "El ingeniero" 1952 3:25
04. Zhanna Aguzarova "Old Hotel" 1987 0:22
05. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental "Champagne tango" 1938 2:26
06. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental "Jueves" 1937 2:33
07. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental "Joaquina" 1935 3:01
08. Boney M "Rasputin cortina 1 " 1998 0:22
I wrote about Los Provincianos before; in my opinion their valses are under-appreciated. The early 1930s, the Depression years before the D'Arienzo revial, were very difficult for tango, and we must be grateful to the pioneers like Ciriaco Ortiz and his "Los Provincianos" for keeping the flame going!
09. Orquesta Tipica Victor - Lita Morales "Noches de invierno" 1937 2:47
10. Los Provincianos - Alberto Gomez "Samaritana (vals)" 1932 2:58
11. Cuarteto Roberto Firpo "El Aeroplano (vals)" 1936 2:14
12. Zemlyane "Trava u Doma 1" 0:19
13. Ángel D'Agostino - Ángel Vargas "Solo compasion" 1941 2:58
14. Ángel D'Agostino - Ángel Vargas "Mano Blanca" 1944 2:43
15. Ángel D'Agostino - Ángel Vargas "Ninguna" 1942 2:59
16. Zhanna Aguzarova "Old Hotel cortina long" 0:38
17. Aníbal Troilo - Francisco Fiorentino "Una carta" 1941 2:50
18. Aníbal Troilo - Francisco Fiorentino "Pa'que bailen los muchachos" 1942 2:49
19. Aníbal Troilo - Francisco Fiorentino "El bulín de la calle Ayacucho" 1941 2:30
20. Russian Elvises "Cosmonaut Petrov 2 (-2 dB)" 0:20
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 "Milonga criolla" 1936 3:00
24. Zhanna Aguzarova "Cats" 1987 0:21
25. Fool's Garden "Lemon tree" 1995 3:09
26. Israel Kamakawiwo'ole "Over The Rainbow" 2001 3:32
27. Souad Massi "Ghir Enta" 2008 5:06
28. Zhanna Aguzarova "Old Hotel cortina" 0:22
29. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos "Gato" 1937 2:42
30. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos, Lita Morales, Romeo Gavioli "Triqui trá" 1940 2:34
31. Edgardo Donato - Lita Morales "Yo Te Amo" 1940 2:50
32. Boney M "Rasputin cortina 3" 1998 0:17
33. Rodolfo Biagi - Jorge Ortíz "Pajaro Herido (vals)" 1941 2:18
34. Rodolfo Biagi - Jorge Ortíz "Por Un Beso De Amor (vals)" 1940 2:44
35. Rodolfo Biagi - Instrumental "Lagrimas Y Sonrisas (vals)" 1941 2:41
36. Leonid Utesov "S Odesskogo kichmana (cortina)" 1935, 1935 0:22
Roberto Firpo was one of the trailblazers of the Old Guard, composing some of the best tangos of the 1900s and 1910s, and of course shaping La Cumparsita as we know it. Because of the poor quality of tango recording before the late 1920s, we miss most of his hits. At the turn of the Great Depression, Firpo quit tango, as he thought, for good, and his grand Orchestra Tipica never played again. But his retirement plans were short lived, and in a few years Firpo was leading a smaller tango band again - you've just heard a track by his quartet a few tandas before.
37. Roberto Firpo - Teofilo Ibanez "Ya no cantas, Chingolo" 1928 2:56
38. Sexteto Carlos di Sarli - Ernesto Famá "La estancia" 1930 3:17
39. Roberto Firpo - Instrumental "Una Noche En La Milonga" 1929 2:56
40. Enrique Rodríguez - Armando Moreno "En la buena y en la mala" 1940 2:26
41. Enrique Rodríguez - Armando Moreno "Que lo sepa el mundo entero" 1943 3:32
42. Enrique Rodríguez - Armando Moreno "Llorar por una mujer" 1941 2:47
43. Russian Elvises Red Elvises "Cosmonaut Petrov 2" 0:20
44. Carlos Di Sarli - Roberto Rufino "Pena Mulata" 1941 2:27
45. Carlos Di Sarli - Roberto Rufino "La Mulateada" 1941 2:22
46. Carlos Di Sarli - Roberto Rufino "Zorzal" 1941 2:40
47. Zhanna Aguzarova "Cats" 1987 0:21
48. Goran Bregovic "This Is A Film (feat. Iggy Pop)" 2003 4:18
49. Iggy Pop Various Artists "In the Deathcar" 1999 5:13
50. Kayah & Bregovic "Ta-Bakiera [This Tabakeria]" 1999 4:17
51. Maya Kristalinskaya "Nezhnost (Tenderness)" 0:17
52. Ricardo Tanturi - Enrique Campos "Oigo Tu Voz" 1941 3:07
53. Ricardo Tanturi - Enrique Campos "La Abandone Y No Sabia" 1944 2:47
54. Ricardo Tanturi - Alberto Castillo "Así Se Baila El Tango" 1942 2:34
55. Carrapicho "Tic Tic Tac cortina 2" 2007 0:18
56. Enrique Rodriguez - Roberto Flores "Salud, Dinero Y Amor (vals)" 1939 2:39
57. Enrique Rodriguez - Roberto Flores "Tengo Mil Novias (vals)" 1939 3:08
Enrique Rodriguez, a great master of remixes, went all the way back to 1870 for this rusty waltz from an American theater play - and made a dynamic vivacious miracle out of it.
58. Enrique Rodriguez - Roberto Flores "Fru Fru (vals)" 1939 2:57
59. Sandro de America "Yo Te Amo cortina" 1968 0:23
60. Pedro Láurenz - Alberto Podestá "Nunca tuvo novio" 1943 3:14
61. Pedro Láurenz - Alberto Podestá "Garua" 1943 3:09
62. Pedro Láurenz - Alberto Podestá "Todo" 1943 2:37
63. Maya Kristalinskaya "Nezhnost (Tenderness)" 0:17
64. Francisco Canaro - Roberto Maida "Recuerdos De Paris" 1937 3:12
65. Francisco Canaro - Roberto Maida "Milagro" 1937 2:56
66. Francisco Canaro - Roberto Mai "Envidia" 1936 3:18
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67. Zhanna Aguzarova "Old Hotel" 1987 0:22
"El Adios" was Maruja Pacheco Huergo's first composition, a brilliant spark of a song which started her very bright and very short tango career. To a Russian ear, it brings an unforgettable refrain of the "Gypsy girl", a folk song which I sometimes play as a cortina...
68. Donato, Edgardo - Horacio Lagos "El Adios" 1938 3:09
69. Edgardo Donato - Lita Morales y Romeo Gavio "Mi Serenata" 1940 3:02
70. Edgardo Donato - Lita Morales, Horacio Lagos y Romeo Gavio "Sinfonia de Arrabal" 1940 3:07
71. Sandro de America "Yo Te Amo cortina" 1968 0:23
72. Miguel Caló - Raúl Berón "Corazon, No Le Hagas Caso!" 1942 3:00
73. Miguel Caló - Raúl Berón "Tristezas De La Calle Corrientes" 1942 2:46
74. Miguel Caló - Raúl Berón "Jamas Retornaras" 1942 2:31
75. Maya Kristalinskaya "Nezhnost (Tenderness)" 0:17
76. Osvaldo Pugliese - Instrumental "Recuerdo" 2:54
77. Osváldo Pugliese Osvaldo Pugliese "Farol" 1943 3:22
78. Osvaldo Pugliese - Roberto Chanel "Rondando tu esquina" 1945 2:48
79. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental "La cumparsita" 1951 3:49
80. Damour Vocal Band "SWAY - Damour Vocal Band" 3:49
81. Leonid Utesov "S Odesskogo Kichmana" 1935 2:43
(81 total)
