Year
Tango in 1959
1959 falls in the Nuevo (1955–1984).
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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.
The studio calendar
1959, day by day
223 sides dated to the day, across 78 days. The stronger the mark, the more was cut. Tap one to hear it.
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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.
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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 sourceAníbal Troilo — 2 recordings1959
Single sourceOsvaldo Pugliese — 12 recordings1959
Single sourceMiguel Caló — 12 recordings1959
Single sourceRicardo Tanturi — 10 recordings1959
Single sourceÁngel D'Agostino — 4 recordings1959
Single sourceRodolfo Biagi — 4 recordings1959
Single sourceOsvaldo Fresedo — 12 recordings1959
Single sourceEnrique Rodríguez — 2 recordings1959
Single sourceAlfredo De Angelis — 18 recordings1959
Single sourceFrancisco Canaro — 4 recordings1959
Single sourceQuinteto Pirincho (Francisco Canaro) — 18 recordings1959
Single sourceWhat happened58
Hugo Marcel: First recordings with Osvaldo Fresedo, including Después de carnaval.
Single sourceAntonio Maida becomes general director of LS6 Radio del Pueblo.
Single sourceCarlos Di Sarli: Last performance, at the club Podestá de Lanús, closing with his own Bahía Blanca.
Single sourceLalo Martel: First recording with Alfredo De Angelis for Odeon, Anoche estuve llorando.
Single sourceManuel Meaños dies in Avellaneda.
Single sourceAlberto Morán ends his first period with Armando Cupo after 46 recordings.
Single sourceJuan Carlos Godoy records Amor de resero with Lalo Martel.
Single sourceÁngel Vargas: Final recording session, La cieguita and La porteñita, with José Libertella's orchestra.
Supported · 2Oscar Larroca records the waltz Mi rosa Margarita with Dante for Voxor.
Single sourceAlberto Vacarezza dies in Buenos Aires.
Single sourceMiguel Montero: Last dance with Pugliese, at Club Huracán.
Single sourceIvo Pelay dies in Buenos Aires.
Single sourceUbaldo De Lío: Quinteto Real debuts on Radio El Mundo, then plays the Confitería Richmond.
Single sourceAdolfo Rivas records Mejor así with the Orquesta Símbolo Osmar Maderna, directed by Aquiles Roggero.
Single sourceEduardo Bianco dies in Buenos Aires.
Single sourceGuillermo Coral: Last records with Canaro's orchestra, La canción and La novia del alcohol.
Single sourceJulio Martel: Last performance, at Club Santa Elena in Luján.
Single sourceOmar Vega Boston: Born in Concordia, Entre Ríos.
Single sourceMaria la Turca starts dancing at seven, taught by her father; wins a tango contest with him at eight.
Single sourceAlcides Rossi replaces Kicho Díaz as double bassist of Aníbal Troilo's orchestra.
Single sourceRaúl Lavié records with Héctor Stamponi's orchestra for Philips.
Single sourceElvira Santamaría meets Virulazo again by chance; they marry and form the couple 'Virulazo y Elvira'.
Single sourceHoracio Ferrer publishes his first book, El tango: su historia y evolución, with Peña Lillo.
Single sourceOrlando Tripodi directs and arranges the orchestra of singers Roberto Florio and Jorge Durán, recording instrumentals for Victor.
Single sourceJosé Colangelo plays with Ángel Domínguez on Radio Splendid and at the cabaret El Avión in La Boca.
Single sourceVirulazo meets Elvira Santamaría again by chance; they become partners and marry.
Single sourceOsvaldo Berlingieri plays in the trio Los Modernos with Roberto Goyeneche and in the quartet Los Notables del Tango with Leopoldo Federico.
Single sourceJosé Libertella conducts Ángel Vargas's orchestra on RCA Victor and starts his own orchestra, recording for Odeon with Miguel Montero.
Single sourceErnesto Baffa | Ubaldo De Lío joins Aníbal Troilo's orchestra, staying almost fifteen years.
Single sourceCarlos Yanel sings at Club Nueva Era carnival dances in Rosario with José Corna's orchestra.
Single sourceVirginia Luque: Del cuplé al tango, film and RCA album.
Single sourceLuciano Leocata: His own orchestra debuts on Radio Belgrano, staying six years.
Single sourceLuis Stazo joins Alfredo De Angelis's orchestra, staying until 1965.
Single sourceJulian Plaza joins Osvaldo Pugliese's orchestra and tours the Soviet Union and China with it.
Single sourceEnrique Díaz leaves Troilo's orchestra.
Single sourceLeopoldo Federico records his first disc leading his own orchestra and, at year's end, starts accompanying Julio Sosa.
Single sourceArmando Laborde goes back to Héctor Varela's orchestra.
Single sourceJorge Maciel tours the Soviet Union and China with Pugliese, with singer Carlos Guido.
Single sourceArmando Baliotti forms the Cinco Maestros del Tango, recording for TK.
Single sourceOsvaldo Manzi forms an orchestra with Eduardo Rovira as first bandoneon; records Febril for a 78 rpm disc.
Single sourceAlberto Gómez sings with Pedro Maffia on Radio Belgrano and records for TK.
Single sourceRoberto Videla sings at the Italian restaurant In Boboli in New York.
Single sourceJosé Basso: His orchestra wins the monthly viewers' vote on Canal 7's Hit parade.
Single sourceFlorindo Sassone moves to the Odeon label and records more instrumentals.
Single sourceMario Demarco leaves Pugliese before the tour of China and the USSR; Julián Plaza replaces him.
Single sourceRoberto Florio leads his own orchestra with Jorge Durán, directed by Orlando Trípodi; an RCA album is left unfinished.
Single sourceHéctor de Rosas: Co-leads an orchestra with Celso Amato on Radio Splendid.
Single sourceEnrique Alessio: Osvaldo Pugliese records his instrumental Julie.
Single sourceAtilio Stampone signs with Microfón, beginning more than ten LPs for the label.
Single sourceCarlos Almada rejoins Donato, singing with Artemio Rolando.
Single sourceRodolfo Lesica returns to Varela until 1961.
Single sourceOsvaldo Pugliese tours the Soviet Union, playing some eighty cities in three months.
Single sourceHéctor Stamponi: Co-leads Los Violines de Oro del Tango with Francini.
Single sourceSimón Bajour tours the Soviet Union and China with Osvaldo Pugliese's orchestra.
Single sourceTino García: With D'Agostino on television and at the Marabú.
Single sourceAstor Piazzolla: Musical director for the dancers Juan Carlos Copes and María Nieves at the Club Flamboyan in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Single sourceRoberto Firpo retires after close to three thousand recordings.
Single sourceJorge Durán forms an orchestra with Roberto Florio, directed from the piano by Orlando Trípodi; records for RCA Victor.
Single sourcePlayed in21
Julian Plaza — Played in Osvaldo Pugliese.1959
Supported · 5Víctor Lavallén — Played in Osvaldo Pugliese.1959
Supported · 3Domingo Mattio — Played in Aníbal Troilo.1959
Supported · 2Ernesto Baffa — Played in Aníbal Troilo.1959
Supported · 2David Díaz — Played in Aníbal Troilo.1959
Supported · 2José Bragato — Played in Aníbal Troilo.1959
Single sourceOsvaldo Berlingieri — Played in Aníbal Troilo.1959
Supported · 2Osvaldo Ruggiero — Played in Osvaldo Pugliese.1959
Supported · 2Ismael Spitalnik — Played in Osvaldo Pugliese.1959
Single sourceOscar Herrero — Played in Osvaldo Pugliese.1959, Jan 1959
Supported · 2Emilio Balcarce — Played in Osvaldo Pugliese.1959
Single sourceJulio Carrasco — Played in Osvaldo Pugliese.1959
Single sourceNorberto Bernasconi — Played in Osvaldo Pugliese.1959
Single sourceAniceto Rossi — Played in Osvaldo Pugliese.1959
Supported · 2Pedro Laurenz — Quinteto Real (Láurenz-Salgán-De Lío-Francini-Ferro), first formation1959
Single sourceAníbal Troilo — Played in Aníbal Troilo.1959
Single sourceEduardo Marino — Played in Aníbal Troilo.1959
Single sourceAlberto García — Played in Aníbal Troilo.1959
Single sourceJuan Alzina — Played in Aníbal Troilo.1959
Single sourceJosé Votti — Played in Aníbal Troilo.1959
Single sourceCarlos Piccione — Played in Aníbal Troilo.1959
Single sourceOrchestras led2
Aníbal Troilo — Led Aníbal Troilo.1959
Single sourceOsvaldo Pugliese — Led Osvaldo Pugliese.1959
Single sourcePerformed at3
Astor Piazzolla — Performed at Puerto Rico.1959
Single sourceJuan Carlos Copes — Performed at Puerto Rico.1959
Single sourceMaria Nieves Rego — Performed at Puerto Rico.1959
Single sourceBorn1
Omar Vega — Born.1959
Supported · 2Notes4
Nuevo — Japan: the 1950s 'second Japanese tango boom' ended with the cancellation of NHK's radio programme1959
Single sourceJuan Carlos Copes — the couple reached Broadway in 19591959
Single sourceLibertad Lamarque — Release “Libertad Lamarque - Vol. III” (1959) on RCA Victor MKL-1245, MX1959
Single sourceAdiós Nonino — Astor Piazzolla composes Adiós Nonino in 1959, in tribute to his father.1959
Single sourceListen
- Porque te quiero asíÁngel DomínguezCarlos Almagrotango
- Mi madre y vosÁngel DomínguezAlberto Rialtango
- GalleguitaArmando PontierOscar FerraritangoCBS Columbia
- AmuradoJosé BassoinstrumentaltangoOdeon
- Despues del carnavalOsvaldo FresedoHugo MarceltangoColumbia
- Qué lejos mi Buenos AiresOsvaldo FresedoHugo MarceltangoColumbia
- Es mejor olvidarFulvio SalamancaArmando Guerricotango
- MatracaFulvio Salamancainstrumentaltango
- ArrabaleroOsvaldo FresedoBlanca MooneytangoColumbia
- JuliánOsvaldo FresedoBlanca MooneytangoColumbia
- Puerto NuevoRicardo TanturiHoracio RocatangoRCA Victor
- Quereme un poquitoRicardo TanturiAlberto GuzmántangoRCA Victor
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