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Tango By Year, the podcast

Horacio Salgan

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

Records played, by recording year

19501960

0 of 17 heard

1950

  1. Don Agustín Bardi

    Salgán's own tribute to the composer Agustín Bardi, witty and idea-packed with his bubbling upbeat 'umpa umpa' accompaniment.

  2. Recuerdo

    Salgán's debut record, a Pugliese composition; the famous bandoneón variation from the trio section is played on the piano, in the middle of the tango.

1951

  1. Vida Mía

    A rare vocal number from Salgán's 'musician's orchestra'; previously a well-known Pugliese recording with singer Jorge Vidal.

    Only in the episode

  2. A record not yet identified

    An instrumental previously well known from a Di Sarli recording ten years earlier (1941); played to compare the two orchestras' treatment of the same piece.

    Only in the episode

  3. La Tablada

    Compared directly to Troilo's version (a dialogue between bandoneon and piano); Salgan turns the same riff into jazz-like improvisation.

  4. Pobre Colombina

    Horacio Deval

    A 1927 carnival tango (originally sung by Gardel) about Columbine, the Commedia dell'Arte character.

  5. Las Mirlas

    Angel Diaz

    Billed as a waltz but revealed by the hosts to actually be a Colombian bambuco converted into waltz form; sparked chat debate, with one listener calling it 'just nuts.'

1952

  1. Los mareados

    Salgán's own instrumental take on a song the show had already played in its Tango 1942 episode as a Troilo/Fiorentino vocal recording.

  2. Ya lo ves

    Roberto Goyeneche

    One of Goyeneche's very first recordings, well before he became known as a reciting, speak-singing "diseur" of Argentine song.

    Only in the episode

  3. Ilusión de mi vida

    A vals most listeners won't know, originally composed and recorded by Feliciano Brunelli in 1949; Michael calls Salgán's piano playing "goosebump material."

1953

  1. Un momento

    Roberto Goyeneche

    Salgán on the small Te-Ka label with the young Goyeneche; Lavocah calls the lyric one of the most beautiful and important in the canon.

  2. Margarita Gauthier

    Roberto Goyeneche

    A different take on a song linked to Caló and Berón; not dance music but 'the tango version of jazz'.

1954

  1. A fuego lento

    After-party: an innovative and influential composition by Salgán, a musician's musician with little following among dancers.

  2. Por el camino

    Roberto Goyeneche

    After-party: a waltz whose last 30 seconds goes completely off the rails; Goyeneche was learning to accompany a wild orchestra before finding fame with Troilo.

1955

  1. Sus Ojos Se Cerraron

    Roberto Goyeneche

    A Gardel composition, played to note that Gardel himself recorded it in March 1935, months before his fatal plane crash, and that Goyeneche's phrasing here is still early.

1960

  1. El pago de Ricardo

    A duo of Salgán on piano and Ubaldo De Lío on electric guitar: the electric guitar is new to tango, and fewer musicians are cheaper.

    Only in the episode

Year not known

  1. Don Agustín Bardi

    An instrumental tribute to composer Agustín Bardi, picked to represent the new, more complex 'musician's band' sound that began before 1950.

    Only in the episode

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