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  12. Tango and the Río de la Plata8 days agoGlossary meaning Tango is a music genre and dance characteristic of the Río de la Plata region, mainly Buenos Aires and Montevideo
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  16. Odeon8 days agoDescribed as Odeon signed Troilo, Demare and Tanturi to three-year exclusive deals with no commitment to release much; after one or two records without a hit it stopped, lea
  17. RCA Victor8 days agoDescribed as After the Depression wiped out Brunswick, Columbia and Electra, only Odeon and RCA Victor remained; if you weren't signed to one you couldn't record.
  18. Odeon8 days agoDescribed as After the Depression wiped out Brunswick, Columbia and Electra, only Odeon and RCA Victor remained; if you weren't signed to one you couldn't record.
  19. Juan D'Arienzo8 days agoDescribed as D'Arienzo's climaxes are about excitement and speed — more notes, faster — while Di Sarli's climaxes are emotional, built by the strings adding intensity of fee
  20. Carlos Di Sarli8 days agoDescribed as D'Arienzo's climaxes are about excitement and speed — more notes, faster — while Di Sarli's climaxes are emotional, built by the strings adding intensity of fee
  21. Victor8 days agoDescribed as Lavocah wonders whether Victor was commercially right to refuse Vardaro in 1933: advanced orchestras like Laurenz in 1937 did not sell many records either.
  22. RCA Victor8 days agoDescribed as The Germaine master carries a technical mistake at about 38 seconds; since it is on the shellac, it was on the original master and neither the technician, RCA V
  23. Victor8 days agoDescribed as Victor and Odeon are thought to have destroyed their master discs around 1962, believing tango was an old business. LPs started around 1960, so for about two ye
  24. Music Hall8 days agoDescribed as The Music Hall recording dates for Di Sarli come from CDs by Babasan in Japan, which cannot explain their source; the Music Hall and Takt Art session registers
  25. Enrique Cadícamo8 days agoDescribed as Contursi met Susana Viganó, a woman from a village in Córdoba, in 1936, and was beginning to write songs about her while staying with his wife, creating the mor
  26. Odeon8 days agoDescribed as 1952 was the year Odeón introduced tape master recording; several of this episode's Pugliese tracks are re-recordings made that year on the new tape process.
  27. Pedro Maffia8 days agoDescribed as Laurenz and Maffia co-wrote Amurado, one taking the smooth, velvet verse and the other the excited chorus; Michael admits he can't remember which of the two wro
  28. Pedro Laurenz8 days agoDescribed as Laurenz and Maffia co-wrote Amurado, one taking the smooth, velvet verse and the other the excited chorus; Michael admits he can't remember which of the two wro
  29. RCA Victor8 days agoDescribed as Odeon pressings have lower surface noise and a better balance for singers than RCA Victor; Troilo, Pugliese and Di Sarli recorded for Victor, which is part of w
  30. Odeon8 days agoDescribed as Odeon pressings have lower surface noise and a better balance for singers than RCA Victor; Troilo, Pugliese and Di Sarli recorded for Victor, which is part of w
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