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Tango in 1959

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Videos danced to the music of 1959 on TangoTubeThe records of 1959 on TangoCloud

1959 falls in the Nuevo (1955–1984).

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1959

Timeline

  1. 1959

    Juan D'Arienzo: 23 recordingsSingle source

  2. 1959

    Aníbal Troilo: 2 recordingsSingle source

  3. 1959

    Osvaldo Pugliese: 12 recordingsSingle source

  4. 1959

    Miguel Caló: 12 recordingsSingle source

  5. 1959

    Ricardo Tanturi: 10 recordingsSingle source

  6. 1959

    Ángel D'Agostino: 4 recordingsSingle source

Related

  • Juan D'ArienzoOrchestra
  • Aníbal TroiloOrchestra
  • Osvaldo PuglieseOrchestra
  • Miguel CalóOrchestra
  • Ricardo TanturiOrchestra
  • Ángel D'AgostinoOrchestra
  • Rodolfo BiagiOrchestra
  • Osvaldo FresedoOrchestra

Our catalogue holds 274 recordings from 1959. The orchestras recorded most that year were Juan D'Arienzo (23 recordings), Orlando Tripodi (20 recordings), and Quinteto Pirincho (Francisco Canaro) (18 recordings).

That year

Julian Plaza: Played in Osvaldo Pugliese.

Víctor Lavallén: Played in Osvaldo Pugliese.

Aníbal Troilo: Led Aníbal Troilo.

Domingo Mattio: Played in Aníbal Troilo.

Hugo Marcel: First recordings with Osvaldo Fresedo, including Después de carnaval.

Antonio Maida becomes general director of LS6 Radio del Pueblo.

Carlos Di Sarli: Last performance, at the club Podestá de Lanús, closing with his own Bahía Blanca.

Lalo Martel: First recording with Alfredo De Angelis for Odeon, Anoche estuve llorando.

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What was playing?

The records of 1959

One record per orchestra, in the order tango remembers them, each its most danced take that plays. The bar shows how much dancers still use it in the videos we index.

75 of the 275 recordings from 1959 are danced on film.

1,383 filmed Dances to them. This counts the Performances in the videos we index, not all social dancing.

  1. La bruja

    Juan D'Arienzo · Mario Bustos

    • Label: RCA Victor
    379 dances
  2. Marinera

    Aníbal Troilo · Ángel Cardenas

    • Label: Odeon
    4 dances
  3. Gallo ciego

    Osvaldo Pugliese · Instrumental

    • Label: Odeon
    • Played at: Teatro Nacional
    418 dances
  4. Marina

    Miguel Caló ·

    • Label: Odeon Brasil
    4 dances
  5. De hermano a hermano

    Ricardo Tanturi · Horacio Roca

    • Label: RCA Victor
    1 dance
  6. La violetera

    Ángel D'Agostino · Roberto Alvar

    • Label: RCA Victor
    2 dances
  7. En el lago azul

    Rodolfo Biagi · Hugo Duval

    • Label: Columbia
    50 dances
  8. Despues del carnaval

    Osvaldo Fresedo · Hugo Marcel

    • Label: Columbia
    30 dances
  9. Para vos mamá

    Enrique Rodríguez · Armando Moreno

    • Label: Odeon
    1 dance
  10. Entre tu amor y mi amor

    Alfredo De Angelis · Juan Carlos Godoy

    • Label: Odeon
    44 dances
  11. La novia del alcohol

    Francisco Canaro · Guillermo Rico

    • Label: Odeon
    1 dance
  12. El porteñito

    Quinteto Pirincho (Francisco Canaro) ·

    • Label: Odeon
    1 dance

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Meanwhile

In Argentina, Uruguay and the world

  • Apr1959 Uruguayan floodWikidata

Tango By Year, the podcast

Dag Stenvoll plays the year's records and Michael Lavocah talks about them, by permission. Facts from the episodes cite the minute they are said.

  • Tango 1959-1969 · episode 40

Connected

From TangoTube's videos · our data

Events where this year's music was danced

  • Milonga La Baldosa15 videos
  • Viva La Pepa14 videos
  • Planetango13 videos
  • Belgrade Tango Encuentro12 videos
  • Lisbon Tango Festival11 videos
  • Brussels Tango Festival9 videos
  • Mediterranean Summer Tango Festival7 videos
  • Łódź Tango Salon Festival7 videos
  • Mundial de Baile de Tango6 videos
  • Floreal Milonga6 videos
  • EMBRACE BERLIN6 videos
  • Mallorca Tango Festival6 videos

Dancers filmed to this year's music

  • Javier Rodríguez57 videos
  • Carlitos Espinoza50 videos
  • Noelia Hurtado46 videos
  • Noelia Barsi27 videos
  • Roxana Suárez23 videos
  • Sebastián Arce22 videos
  • Sebastián Achaval20 videos
  • Mariana Montes19 videos
  • Juan Martín Carrara18 videos
  • Stefanía Colina18 videos
  • Agustina Piaggio17 videos
  • Fabián Peralta15 videos
Data: recordings, facts and sources

Recordings12

Juan D'Arienzo — 23 recordings1959

Single source

Aníbal Troilo — 2 recordings1959

Single source

Osvaldo Pugliese — 12 recordings1959

Single source

Miguel Caló — 12 recordings1959

Single source

Ricardo Tanturi — 10 recordings1959

Single source

Ángel D'Agostino — 4 recordings1959

Single source

Rodolfo Biagi — 4 recordings1959

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Osvaldo Fresedo — 12 recordings1959

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Enrique Rodríguez — 2 recordings1959

Single source

Alfredo De Angelis — 18 recordings1959

Single source

Francisco Canaro — 4 recordings1959

Single source

Quinteto Pirincho (Francisco Canaro) — 18 recordings1959

Single source

What happened58

Hugo Marcel: First recordings with Osvaldo Fresedo, including Después de carnaval.

Single source

Antonio Maida becomes general director of LS6 Radio del Pueblo.

Single source

Carlos Di Sarli: Last performance, at the club Podestá de Lanús, closing with his own Bahía Blanca.

Single source

Lalo Martel: First recording with Alfredo De Angelis for Odeon, Anoche estuve llorando.

Single source

Manuel Meaños dies in Avellaneda.

Single source

Alberto Morán ends his first period with Armando Cupo after 46 recordings.

Single source

Juan Carlos Godoy records Amor de resero with Lalo Martel.

Single source

Ángel Vargas: Final recording session, La cieguita and La porteñita, with José Libertella's orchestra.

Supported · 2

Oscar Larroca records the waltz Mi rosa Margarita with Dante for Voxor.

Single source

Alberto Vacarezza dies in Buenos Aires.

Single source

Miguel Montero: Last dance with Pugliese, at Club Huracán.

Single source

Ivo Pelay dies in Buenos Aires.

Single source

Ubaldo De Lío: Quinteto Real debuts on Radio El Mundo, then plays the Confitería Richmond.

Single source

Adolfo Rivas records Mejor así with the Orquesta Símbolo Osmar Maderna, directed by Aquiles Roggero.

Single source

Eduardo Bianco dies in Buenos Aires.

Single source

Guillermo Coral: Last records with Canaro's orchestra, La canción and La novia del alcohol.

Single source

Julio Martel: Last performance, at Club Santa Elena in Luján.

Single source

Omar Vega Boston: Born in Concordia, Entre Ríos.

Single source

Maria la Turca starts dancing at seven, taught by her father; wins a tango contest with him at eight.

Single source

Alcides Rossi replaces Kicho Díaz as double bassist of Aníbal Troilo's orchestra.

Single source

Raúl Lavié records with Héctor Stamponi's orchestra for Philips.

Single source

Elvira Santamaría meets Virulazo again by chance; they marry and form the couple 'Virulazo y Elvira'.

Single source

Horacio Ferrer publishes his first book, El tango: su historia y evolución, with Peña Lillo.

Single source

Orlando Tripodi directs and arranges the orchestra of singers Roberto Florio and Jorge Durán, recording instrumentals for Victor.

Single source

José Colangelo plays with Ángel Domínguez on Radio Splendid and at the cabaret El Avión in La Boca.

Single source

Virulazo meets Elvira Santamaría again by chance; they become partners and marry.

Single source

Osvaldo Berlingieri plays in the trio Los Modernos with Roberto Goyeneche and in the quartet Los Notables del Tango with Leopoldo Federico.

Single source

José Libertella conducts Ángel Vargas's orchestra on RCA Victor and starts his own orchestra, recording for Odeon with Miguel Montero.

Single source

Ernesto Baffa | Ubaldo De Lío joins Aníbal Troilo's orchestra, staying almost fifteen years.

Single source

Carlos Yanel sings at Club Nueva Era carnival dances in Rosario with José Corna's orchestra.

Single source

Virginia Luque: Del cuplé al tango, film and RCA album.

Single source

Luciano Leocata: His own orchestra debuts on Radio Belgrano, staying six years.

Single source

Luis Stazo joins Alfredo De Angelis's orchestra, staying until 1965.

Single source

Julian Plaza joins Osvaldo Pugliese's orchestra and tours the Soviet Union and China with it.

Single source

Enrique Díaz leaves Troilo's orchestra.

Single source

Leopoldo Federico records his first disc leading his own orchestra and, at year's end, starts accompanying Julio Sosa.

Single source

Armando Laborde goes back to Héctor Varela's orchestra.

Single source

Jorge Maciel tours the Soviet Union and China with Pugliese, with singer Carlos Guido.

Single source

Armando Baliotti forms the Cinco Maestros del Tango, recording for TK.

Single source

Osvaldo Manzi forms an orchestra with Eduardo Rovira as first bandoneon; records Febril for a 78 rpm disc.

Single source

Alberto Gómez sings with Pedro Maffia on Radio Belgrano and records for TK.

Single source

Roberto Videla sings at the Italian restaurant In Boboli in New York.

Single source

José Basso: His orchestra wins the monthly viewers' vote on Canal 7's Hit parade.

Single source

Florindo Sassone moves to the Odeon label and records more instrumentals.

Single source

Mario Demarco leaves Pugliese before the tour of China and the USSR; Julián Plaza replaces him.

Single source

Roberto Florio leads his own orchestra with Jorge Durán, directed by Orlando Trípodi; an RCA album is left unfinished.

Single source

Héctor de Rosas: Co-leads an orchestra with Celso Amato on Radio Splendid.

Single source

Enrique Alessio: Osvaldo Pugliese records his instrumental Julie.

Single source

Atilio Stampone signs with Microfón, beginning more than ten LPs for the label.

Single source

Carlos Almada rejoins Donato, singing with Artemio Rolando.

Single source

Rodolfo Lesica returns to Varela until 1961.

Single source

Osvaldo Pugliese tours the Soviet Union, playing some eighty cities in three months.

Single source

Héctor Stamponi: Co-leads Los Violines de Oro del Tango with Francini.

Single source

Simón Bajour tours the Soviet Union and China with Osvaldo Pugliese's orchestra.

Single source

Tino García: With D'Agostino on television and at the Marabú.

Single source

Astor Piazzolla: Musical director for the dancers Juan Carlos Copes and María Nieves at the Club Flamboyan in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Single source

Roberto Firpo retires after close to three thousand recordings.

Single source

Jorge Durán forms an orchestra with Roberto Florio, directed from the piano by Orlando Trípodi; records for RCA Victor.

Single source

Played in21

Julian Plaza — Played in Osvaldo Pugliese.1959

Supported · 5

Víctor Lavallén — Played in Osvaldo Pugliese.1959

Supported · 3

Domingo Mattio — Played in Aníbal Troilo.1959

Supported · 2

Ernesto Baffa — Played in Aníbal Troilo.1959

Supported · 2

David Díaz — Played in Aníbal Troilo.1959

Supported · 2

José Bragato — Played in Aníbal Troilo.1959

Single source

Osvaldo Berlingieri — Played in Aníbal Troilo.1959

Supported · 2

Osvaldo Ruggiero — Played in Osvaldo Pugliese.1959

Supported · 2

Ismael Spitalnik — Played in Osvaldo Pugliese.1959

Single source

Oscar Herrero — Played in Osvaldo Pugliese.1959, Jan 1959

Supported · 2

Emilio Balcarce — Played in Osvaldo Pugliese.1959

Single source

Julio Carrasco — Played in Osvaldo Pugliese.1959

Single source

Norberto Bernasconi — Played in Osvaldo Pugliese.1959

Single source

Aniceto Rossi — Played in Osvaldo Pugliese.1959

Supported · 2

Pedro Laurenz — Quinteto Real (Láurenz-Salgán-De Lío-Francini-Ferro), first formation1959

Single source

Aníbal Troilo — Played in Aníbal Troilo.1959

Single source

Eduardo Marino — Played in Aníbal Troilo.1959

Single source

Alberto García — Played in Aníbal Troilo.1959

Single source

Juan Alzina — Played in Aníbal Troilo.1959

Single source

José Votti — Played in Aníbal Troilo.1959

Single source

Carlos Piccione — Played in Aníbal Troilo.1959

Single source

Orchestras led2

Aníbal Troilo — Led Aníbal Troilo.1959

Single source

Osvaldo Pugliese — Led Osvaldo Pugliese.1959

Single source

Performed at3

Astor Piazzolla — Performed at Puerto Rico.1959

Single source

Juan Carlos Copes — Performed at Puerto Rico.1959

Single source

Maria Nieves Rego — Performed at Puerto Rico.1959

Single source

Born1

Omar Vega — Born.1959

Supported · 2

Notes4

Nuevo — Japan: the 1950s 'second Japanese tango boom' ended with the cancellation of NHK's radio programme1959

Single source

Juan Carlos Copes — the couple reached Broadway in 19591959

Single source

Libertad Lamarque — Release “Libertad Lamarque - Vol. III” (1959) on RCA Victor MKL-1245, MX1959

Single source

Adiós Nonino — Astor Piazzolla composes Adiós Nonino in 1959, in tribute to his father.1959

Single source

Listen

  1. Porque te quiero así · Ángel Domínguez · Carlos Almagro · tango · Jan 7, 1959
  2. Mi madre y vos · Ángel Domínguez · Alberto Rial · tango · Jan 7, 1959
  3. Galleguita · Armando Pontier · Oscar Ferrari · tango · Jan 8, 1959 · CBS Columbia
  4. Amurado · José Basso · instrumental · tango · Jan 8, 1959 · Odeon
  5. Despues del carnaval · Osvaldo Fresedo · Hugo Marcel · tango · Jan 12, 1959 · Columbia
  6. Qué lejos mi Buenos Aires · Osvaldo Fresedo · Hugo Marcel · tango · Jan 12, 1959 · Columbia
  7. Es mejor olvidar · Fulvio Salamanca · Armando Guerrico · tango · Jan 28, 1959
  8. Matraca · Fulvio Salamanca · instrumental · tango · Jan 28, 1959
  9. Arrabalero · Osvaldo Fresedo · Blanca Mooney · tango · Jan 28, 1959 · Columbia
  10. Julián · Osvaldo Fresedo · Blanca Mooney · tango · Jan 28, 1959 · Columbia
  11. Puerto Nuevo · Ricardo Tanturi · Horacio Roca · tango · Jan 29, 1959 · RCA Victor
  12. Quereme un poquito · Ricardo Tanturi · Alberto Guzmán · tango · Jan 29, 1959 · RCA Victor

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