Tango in 1919

The dossier material on tango in 1919 is mainly about recordings, with one item on political history ^[1][2][3]. A biography of Carlos Gardel states that in 1919 only one of the thirteen songs he recorded that year was a tango ^[1]. A year-based recording listing records many 1919 sides. They include folk and criollo forms such as the vals, estilo, zamba, cueca, tonada and media cifra, performed by Carlos Gardel, José Razzano and the guitarist credited as José Ricardo ^[3]. The same listing has a group of tango recordings by Roberto Firpo, among them a tango rosarino and a tango característico ^[3].

The year 1919 also appears in a source on Mariano Mores. There, a film reads a song lyric in a fratricidal key and places it in the Revolution of 1890 and in the Semana Trágica of 1919, during the radical government of Hipólito Yrigoyen ^[2]. The dossier does not name the film or the lyric ^[2].

The sources do not fully agree on some details. These include the number of tangos among Gardel's 1919 recordings, the genre and performers given for 'La pastora', and the performer credit for 'Mi noche triste'. Each case is described below and in the disputed entries ^[1][3].

A biography of Gardel describes his 1919 output as mostly non-tango material: only one of the thirteen songs he recorded that year was a tango ^[1]. The recording listing for 1919 matches this picture in part. Most of its entries credited to José Ricardo with Carlos Gardel, with or without José Razzano, are in folk and criollo genres rather than tango ^[3].

Entries credited to José Ricardo with Carlos Gardel and José Razzano in the 1919 listing include: - 'Ay, Elena!' (vals) ^[3] - 'Ay, aurora' (vals) ^[3] - 'La cordobesa' (zamba) ^[3] - 'La yegüesita' (cueca) ^[3] - 'Sanjuanina de mi amor' (tonada) ^[3]

Entries credited to José Ricardo with Carlos Gardel alone include: - 'De vuelta al bulín' (tango) ^[3] - 'El cardo azul' (estilo) ^[3] - 'Flor de fango' (tango) ^[3] - 'Que suerte la del inglés' (estilo) ^[3] - 'Suena, guitarra querida' (estilo) ^[3]

The listing also has 'La pastora' twice under the same identifier. One entry credits Carlos Gardel alone and leaves the genre unmarked. The other credits Carlos Gardel and José Razzano and classifies it as a canción ^[3]. A further entry, 'Pavadas', a media cifra, is credited to José Razzano ^[3].

The listing gives two titles marked as tangos under José Ricardo with Carlos Gardel: 'De vuelta al bulín' and 'Flor de fango' ^[3]. The biography says only one of Gardel's thirteen 1919 recordings was a tango ^[1]. The sources therefore differ on this count, which is recorded as disputed.

The 1919 recording listing credits a series of tango-family titles to Roberto Firpo ^[3]. They include: - 'De rincón a rincón' (tango rosarino) ^[3] - 'Don Esteban' (tango) ^[3] - 'El motivo' (tango) ^[3] - 'Jueves' (tango) ^[3] - 'La murra' (tango característico) ^[3] - 'Pablo' (tango) ^[3]

The dossier gives no recording dates, labels or personnel for these sides beyond the year 1919 ^[3].

The 1919 listing includes 'Mi noche triste' (tango) under one identifier, T0370019241, in two entries ^[3]. One entry credits the recording to Celestino Ferrer and dates it to 1919 ^[3]. The other gives a full date of 1919-03-31 and a duration of 03:08, but its performer field holds the date and not a name ^[3]. The sources do not make clear whether both entries refer to the same recording and performer, so the credit is treated as disputed. The date 1919-03-31 is the date of the listed recording only. It is not stated as a first performance ^[3].

A source on Mariano Mores links the year to Argentine political history. It describes a film that reads a song lyric in a fratricidal key and places it in the Revolution of 1890 and in the Semana Trágica of 1919, during the radical government of Hipólito Yrigoyen ^[2]. The dossier does not give the title of the film or the song ^[2].

Across the 1919 listing, the genres represented include: - vals ^[3] - estilo ^[3] - zamba ^[3] - cueca ^[3] - tonada ^[3] - media cifra ^[3] - canción ^[3] - tango, tango rosarino and tango característico ^[3]

In this listing, tango-labelled titles are credited mainly to Roberto Firpo. The vocal recordings of Gardel and Razzano fall mostly in folk and criollo genres ^[1][3].