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Tango By Year, the podcast

Alfredo De Angelis

15 records across 9 episodes (12 play here), plus 0 chapters that mention them, in the order the music happened.

Records played, by recording year

19441963

0 of 15 heard

1944

  1. Bajo el cono azul

    Floreal Ruiz

    De Angelis's own composition, with a spoken glosa recited by announcer Néstor Rodi before the song proper.

  2. La Cumparsita

    One of only two La Cumparsita recordings made in all of 1944, with a long spoken glosa at the start; chosen to close the show.

1945

  1. Ya estamos iguales

    Carlos Dante

    Afterparty: Lavocah defends 1945 De Angelis, before his later violin excesses, with Dante lured out of retirement from an oil company job.

  2. A record not yet identified

    Julio Martel

    Afterparty: a contrasting side with the young singer Julio Martel.

    Only in the episode

1946

  1. Pobre Flor

    Carlos Dante y Julio Martel

    A De Angelis waltz the hosts call genuinely good, despite their reservations about the orchestra overall.

1948

  1. Para ti, madre

    Carlos Dante

    A waltz about a mother that was only on one rare CD, so is seldom played; it moves with a punchy beat.

    Only in the episode

1949

  1. Cariñito (title unclear)

    Carlos Dante / Julio Martel

    A lovely De Angelis waltz, sung as a duet; the piano plays a two-against-three figure at each break, like Peruvian waltzes.

    Only in the episode

  2. Compadrón

    Carlos Dante

    Played because De Angelis in 1949 is better than people think; the marcato is more intense.

  3. La limosna

    Julio Martel

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

1950

  1. Gloria

    Carlos Dante

    A tango from the woman's point of view warning a man that girls are not toys, in a vigorous De Angelis year.

1952

  1. Zorro gris

    Oscar Larroca

    A lyric Dag first misread as an old lecherous man, but which is actually a tragic cabaret girl pretending to enjoy herself while cold and sad inside.

1958

  1. No Culpes al Amor

    Juan Carlos Godoy

    A showcase for Godoy's unique voice, a singer Lavocah feels was born too late for Di Sarli's late-1930s band.

  2. Pavadita

    A brand-new 1958 composition by old-timer Anselmo Aieta that sounds, deliberately, like it escaped from the 1920s.

1960

  1. Angélica

    A waltz that started as a folkloric tune; much loved and played by De Angelis.

1963

  1. Sin aliento

    An instrumental with nice pizzicati, danceable in a mixed tanda.

Tango By Year is Dag Stenvoll and Michael Lavocah's, published here with their permission. The audio plays from SoundCloud.