Tango in 1980

This article gathers events, releases and recordings that the available sources date to 1980. Most of the material comes from a discography that lists individual recordings with dates. Some entries give a full session date and others give only the year ^[8].

The artists in that listing for 1980 include the orchestras of Osvaldo Pugliese, Alfredo De Angelis and Osvaldo Fresedo, the Orquesta Típica Corrientes, Raúl Miguel Garello, Alberto Di Paulo with the singer Alberto Podestá, Eduardo Del Piano, Hernán Salinas and the singer Susana Rinaldi ^[8]. The listing also dates two recordings by Roberto Goyeneche to 1980: one with Osvaldo Berlingieri and one under his own name ^[8].

Other sources record events of the year. In 1980 the pianist Juan Mazzadi left the Sexteto Mayor and Oscar Palermo replaced him ^[7]. Goyeneche recorded the album Mi Buenos Aires querido with the orchestra of Osvaldo Berlingieri for RCA ^[6]. The Cuarteto Cedrón issued the LP Chansons traditionnelles d'Argentine on Polydor ^[2]. On 12 February 1980 Ranko Fujisawa was interviewed in Tokyo for a chronicle titled 'El tango en Japón' ^[10].

Apart from a few biographical notes, such as the Sexteto Mayor line-up change ^[7] and Goyeneche's health in the 1980s ^[6], the available material consists mainly of recordings and releases ^[8]. It says almost nothing about the dance scene, venues or the social context of tango in 1980; these limits are listed under gaps ^[8].

The Sexteto Mayor changed its line-up in 1980. That year the pianist Juan Mazzadi retired from the group and Oscar Palermo took his place ^[7].

A quotation from Astor Piazzolla dates to 1980. He said, for a BBC documentary that year, that it was "when I was able to write the most beautiful piece I wrote in my life" (original: «Cuando pude escribir el tema más lindo que escribí en mi vida») ^[1]. The excerpt does not name the piece he meant ^[1].

According to his biography, Roberto Goyeneche began to suffer respiratory problems and problems with his vocal cords during the 1980s. These later led to pneumonia ^[6]. He nonetheless kept giving concerts and recording new albums, mostly with Raúl Garello, with whom he had worked before ^[6].

In Japan, the singer Ranko Fujisawa was interviewed on the afternoon of 12 February 1980 at the Ten Roses Café in Tokyo. The interview was for a piece titled 'El tango en Japón' ^[10].

A biography of Eduardo Arolas refers to an orchestra in connection with 1980 and to the year 1952. The surviving excerpt is too fragmentary to show which orchestra or what event is meant ^[9].

The article on the tango Mi noche triste cites an item titled Antología cronológica 1900 - 1980. The excerpt gives no further details about it ^[5].

The listing gives a recording of the tango 'A media luz' by Osvaldo Fresedo with the singer Argentino Ledesma, dated 4 July 1980, with a duration of 02:48 ^[8].

The listing also gives an entry for 'Invierno porteño' dated 27 October 1980, under the same work code, with no performer identified. A further entry, 'Mal de amores', has the same date and also no identified performer. The entries therefore differ on the details of these recordings ^[8].

Roberto Goyeneche is credited with Osvaldo Berlingieri on the milonga 'Papá Baltasar' (1980). He is also credited under his own name on the tango 'Un tropezón', dated 6 December 1980 ^[8]. His biography lists the 1980 RCA album Mi Buenos Aires querido with Berlingieri's orchestra ^[6].

The 1980 entries in the discography are mostly tangos. They also include valses such as 'Corazón de oro' and 'Desde el alma', and milongas such as 'De pura cepa', 'Amor y baile' and 'Ropa blanca' ^[8]. Other forms appear as well: 'Azabache' is listed as a milonga candombe, and 'Si Buenos Aires no fuera así' is listed as folklore ^[8].

Some works appear under more than one performer in that year. For example, 'Tinta roja' is listed for both Susana Rinaldi and Eduardo Del Piano under the same work code ^[8]. The dates given are recording dates in the listing; they are not composition or first-performance dates ^[8].