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On this day in tango

24 August

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Corazón no le digas a nadie

Lucio Demare · Horacio Quintana

Recorded 24 August 1944

On this day

  • 1905

    ✶ Born

    Ricardo Malerba · Born in Buenos Aires.

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  • 1967

    † Died

    Jorge Caldara · Dies in Buenos Aires.

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  • 1982

    † Died

    Raúl Iriarte · Dies in Bogotá after a serious illness.

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  • 1945

    Alberto Arenas · First recording with Canaro, Adiós pampa mía.

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  • 1987

    † Died

    Raúl Ledesma · Dies.

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  • 1908

    ✶ Born

    Alejandro Fattorini · Born in Buenos Aires.

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  • 2026

    Luis Solanas · Class and exhibition with María José Iglesias at the city Festival de Tango.

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Recorded on this day

The canon's orchestras first; each plays a clip.

  1. Corazón no le digas a nadie · Lucio Demare · Horacio Quintana · 1944
  2. Prisionero · Rodolfo Biagi · Alberto Amor · 1943
  3. Doble condena · Edgardo Donato · Oscar Peralta · 1956
  4. Adiós pampa mía · Francisco Canaro · Alberto Arenas · 1945
  5. Madreselva · Francisco Lomuto · Jorge Omar · 1938
  6. Don Esteban · Típica Select · 1920
  7. La cara de la luna · Juan Carlos Caviello · 1955
  8. Se va una tarde más · Lucio Demare · Horacio Quintana · 1944

A word of tango

peringundín

A dance of Genoese immigrants in La Boca, Buenos Aires, in the 19th century

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