Junando el Tango practica playlist, Dec 20 2017

Thank you Sage for letting me fool around with the music, and apologies for taking so long with posting the list ... it's the crazy holidays! Happy New Year y Feliz Navidad all!
01. Quinteto Don Pancho - Instrumental "El garron" 1938 2:27
02. Quinteto Don Pancho - Instrumental "Alma en pena" 1938 2:46
03. Quinteto Don Pancho - Instrumental "Loca" 1938 2:57
04. Aya RL  "Skora"  0:33

We've just celebrated D'Arienzo's birthday on December 14th, and it's always great time to play more, different D'Arienzo records, but tonight is an especially good night. I start with some pf D'Arienzo originals, back when Biagi himself was at the piano (and probably defined a lot of the future-and-forever style of the orchestra). 
05. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental  "El choclo" 1937 2:35
06. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental  "La viruta" 1936 2:20
07. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental  "Champagne tango" 1938 2:26
08. Harry Roy  "South American Joe cortina 3"  0:21
09. Enrique Rodriguez - Armando Moreno "Mi piba linda" 1943 2:51
10. Enrique Rodriguez - Instrumental  "El morochito" 1941 2:34
11. Enrique Rodriguez - Armando Moreno "Como Se Pianta La Vida" 1940 2:25
12. Zhanna Aguzarova "Old Hotel" 1987 0:22
I don't play valses of D'Arienzo's too often, but they are fantastic
13. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental  "Pasion" 1937 2:37
14. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental  "Corazon De Artista" 1936 2:19
15. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental "Mentias" 1937 2:19
16. Soda Stereo  "En la ciudad de furia"  0:24
17. Francisco Canaro - Ernesto Fama "Todo te nombra" 1939 3:01
18. Francisco Canaro - Ernesto Famá "Abandonada" 1939 2:54
19. Francisco Canaro - Ernesto Famá "Te quiero todavia" 1939 2:54
20. Harry Roy  "South American Joe cortina 1"  0:26
21. Aníbal Troilo - Francisco Fiorentino  "Una carta" 1941 2:50
22. Aníbal Troilo - Francisco Fiorentino  "Pa'que bailen los muchachos" 1942 2:49
23. Aníbal Troilo - Francisco Fiorentino  "El bulín de la calle Ayacucho" 1941 2:30
24. ZZ Top  "Sharp Dressed Man cortina"  0:25
And milongas from the formative years of the genre
25. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental "Milonga Vieja Milonga" 1937 2:37
26. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental  "De Pura Cepa" 1935 2:41
27. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental "El Esquinazo" 1 938 2:32
28. Jestofunk  "The Ghetto cortina"  0:21

Manuel Buzon, a pianist, singer, composer, and bandleader, was born on December 18, 1904. Since his early 20s, he led orchestras, and toured abroad. Returning from Spain in the middle of the Great Depression, he faced a few jobless months, but rebuilt his band even before the year 1930 was over, winning contests, playing on the radio and at carnivals, and touring the provinces. They've only been recording in 1942-1943, and they've been largely absent from the capital city scene during the rest of the golden years. So the music of Buzon's orchestra remains essentially unknown today. I really liked one of their valses (played later in the list), but after trying the following tango tanda, my verdict is "definitive maybe"
29. Manuel Buzón - Amadeo Mandarino "Al Verla Pasar" 1942 3:03
30. Manuel Buzón -  Osvaldo Moreno "Mediodia" 1943  3:05
31. Manuel Buzón - Amadeo Mandarino "Fueye" 1942 2:57
32. Harry Roy  "South American Joe cortina 2"  0:28
A mature period of D'Arienzo's orchestra, with Fulvio Salamanca on piano (and Juan D'Arienzo was blessed with talented and energetic pianists!) and the voice of Hector Maure
33. Juan D'Arienzo - Héctor Mauré "Ya lo ves" 1941 2:39
34. Juan D'Arienzo - Héctor Mauré "Infamia" 1941 3:05
35. Juan D'Arienzo - Héctor Mauré  "El olivo (El olvido)" 1941 2:51
36. Alla Pugacheva "Million Scarlet Roses" 1982 0:19
A mixed tanda born out of a desire to play one of the more memorable recordings of Manuel Buzon, a vals (and they didn't have enough valses recorded to even start building tandas). This set spans a decade of tango history, and culminates in a energetic, Mexican folk-inspired "Shunca", a rare gem of a vals joy.
37. Orquesta Tipica los Provincianos - Alberto Gomez "Samaritana"  2:58
38. Manuel Buzon - Osvaldo Moreno  "Pichon enamorado" 1942 2:18
39. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos, Lita Morales, Romeo Gavioli  "La shunca" 1941 2:35

40. Alla Pugacheva  "Etot mir"  0:33
The following tanda is dedicated to our Salt Lake Tango Fest :) (held on Memorial day weekend in May 2018) with its official 2018 wildflower being Utah globemallow, Flor de Malvón de Desierto. Expect me to play an occasional tango about mallows from now on, and please join us at the SLTF!
41. Ricardo Tanturi - Alberto Castillo "Moneda de cobre" 1942 2:47
42. Ricardo Tanturi - Enrique Campos "Una Emocion" 1943 2:38
43. Ricardo Tanturi - Enrique Campos  "Malvón" 1943 2:59

44. Carlitos Rolan  "Cuarteto1"  0:28

The end of the tangofox
tanda found me
squarely on the floor :)

45. Carlos Di Sarli - Instrumental "Shusheta" 1940 2:22
46. Carlos Di Sarli - Instrumental "Catamarca" 1940 2:23
47. Carlos Di Sarli - Instrumental "La Trilla" 1940 2:21
48. The Blues Brothers  "Theme From Rawhide 2" 1980 0:18
49. Enrique Rodriguez - Armando Moreno "Por las calles de Estambul" 1944 2:54
50. Enrique Rodriguez - Armando Moreno "Noches de Hungria" 1942 2:57
51. Enrique Rodriguez - Armando Moreno "Contando las estrellas" 1942 2:23
52. Jestofunk  "The Ghetto cortina"  0:21
This week also marks the birthday of one of the sweetest voices of tango, the mellifluous Roberto Ray, who recorded so many excellent hits with Osvaldo Fresedo that it's hard to imagine a milonga without their beautiful, refined tangos. Roberto Raimondo was born on December 12, 1912, and joined Fresedo's orchestra at the age of 18, at the height of the Great Depression which made the musicians' prospects so impossibly hard. Roberto ended staying on for the whole decade from 1931 to1939. The fortunes of the tango vocalists greatly improved by the end of the 1930s, and Roberto Ray started a trend of orchestra singers splitting off and forming their own orchestras; he returned to Fresedo in the late 1940s. 
We're used to the mid-1930s Fresedo-Ray classics. I'm going to celebrate Roberto Ray with something slightly different. Beginning in 1938, Fresedo achieves a more mysterious quality of tango, and experiments a lot  with the sound of harp. This creative period left a handful of recordings with Ray (which I'm happy to play tonight), and more in the same vibe with the voice of Ricardo Ruiz, culminating in stellar "Buscandote" in 1941.
53. Osvaldo Fresedo - Roberto Ray "Angustia" 1938 2:39
54. Osvaldo Fresedo - Roberto Ray "Ojos Muertos" 1938 2:37
55. Osvaldo Fresedo - Roberto Ray "Media Vuelta" 1938 2:09
56. Harry Roy  "South American Joe cortina 1"  0:26
57. Donato Racciatti - Olga Delgrossi  "Hasta siempre amor" 1958 2:57
58. Donato Racciatti - Olga Delgrossi  "Queriendote" 1955 2:49
59. Donato Racciatti - Olga Delgrossi "Sus Ojos Se Cerraron" 1956 2:47
60. Sandro de America  "Yo Te Amo cortina" 1968 0:23
61. Pedro Láurenz - Alberto Podestá "Recien" 1943 2:44
62. Pedro Láurenz - Alberto Podestá "Todo" 1943 2:38
63. Pedro Láurenz - Alberto Podestá "Alma de bohemio" 1943 2:45
64. Pedro Láurenz - Instrumental  "La cumparsita" 1953 3:17