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Recording 653

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Described as A lyric about a child begging outside a party, told to beg at churches and cemeteries instead.

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  1. Recording 6538 days agoDescribed as A lyric about a child begging outside a party, told to beg at churches and cemeteries instead.
  2. Recording 6798 days agoDescribed as Played because De Angelis in 1949 is better than people think; the marcato is more intense.
  3. Recording 51918 days agoDescribed as Brunelli sold huge numbers of records and was perhaps the first Argentine artist to get a gold disc.
  4. Recording 51938 days agoDescribed as A party-time accordion orchestra, played to lift spirits; Salgán later transformed this waltz.
  5. Recording 12618 days agoDescribed as An old Gardel number; Lavocah calls it the culmination of Troilo's lyricism and the end of an era.
  6. Recording 14518 days agoDescribed as An introvert, bittersweet waltz sung as a duet.
  7. Recording 12318 days agoDescribed as Known better from Pugliese and Morán; Calderón's soft voice and a silky ending.
  8. Recording 110918 days agoDescribed as A tribute to Troilo; Lavocah calls it more substantial than much De Caro, with the bandoneón standing out.
  9. Recording 111008 days agoDescribed as A new version of a De Caro classic; he no longer plays violin in these recordings, first violin is Manuel Francia.
  10. Recording 111238 days agoDescribed as A surprise: De Caro with a woman singer, in a lyric about a woman who goes wrong that blames the social pressures of the time.
  11. Recording 142818 days agoDescribed as A 1915 Canaro number that Pugliese transforms beyond its composer's intention, as he does with La mariposa.
  12. Recording 144488 days agoDescribed as Morán on fire in 1949; Stenvoll gets goosebumps.
  13. Recording 144388 days agoDescribed as Third of the three works that define Pugliese's style, and to Lavocah the first written, the most joyful, 'violent joy' despite the pressure on the orchestra.
  14. Recording 8228 days agoDescribed as A Peruvian waltz sung as a duet; Maciel, later Pugliese's singer, sounds different here.
  15. Recording 7718 days agoDescribed as A tango with a prison theme: a man tells someone not to bring their mother to visit him in jail.
  16. Recording 104618 days agoDescribed as The big hit of the year for D'Arienzo; Laborde has begun to sound a little like Echagüe, with more edge to his voice.
  17. Recording 107918 days agoDescribed as A restrained instrumental with lots of detail, chosen to show the change of style that is coming.
  18. Recording 149758 days agoDescribed as A French tango with a strong dance beat; Stenvoll's 'excursion to Europe' and a sensual, very square beat.
  19. Recording 95998 days agoDescribed as A duet of two voices nobody would pair, Fiorentino and the buttoned-up Ricardo Ruiz, which blend beautifully; the song is known from D'Arienzo 1936 and Troilo 1
  20. Recording 95538 days agoDescribed as Basso's first year with his own orchestra; a tango about drinking to forget, where Fiorentino sounds more and more drunk by the end.
  21. Recording 87548 days agoDescribed as A medley of six tangos, played to show how the shortage of new songs led bands to string old ones together; Lomuto is just back from nearly two years in Spain.
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