Our catalogue holds 136 recordings from 1935. The orchestras recorded most that year were Francisco Canaro (43 recordings), Edgardo Donato (19 recordings), and Francisco Lomuto (18 recordings).
That year
Lidio Fasoli: Played in Juan D'Arienzo.
Luis Visca: Played in Juan D'Arienzo.
Rodolfo Biagi: Played in Juan Canaro.
Rodolfo Biagi: Performed at Chantecler.
Guillermo Barbieri sails north with Riverol and Aguilar to join Gardel's tour.
Roberto Maida: First session with Canaro, including "Cambalache" and "Alma de bandoneón".
Roberto Díaz records Retazo with Osvaldo Fresedo on 22 March before leaving for Europe.
Carlos Varela records Cero a cero with Firpo for Odeon.
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What was playing?
The records of 1935
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.
On the air: LR1 Radio El Mundo
Osvaldo Fresedo · Roberto Ray
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Events where this year's music was danced
- Sunderland Club7 videos
- Viva La Pepa7 videos
- Brussels Tango Festival5 videos
- Porteño y Bailarín3 videos
- Riga Tango Fiesta3 videos
- Yira Yira3 videos
- Bratislava Tango Festival3 videos
- White Tango Festival3 videos
- Dubai Tango Festival3 videos
- Mundial de Baile de Tango3 videos
- Planetango3 videos
- Kiev International Tango Festival2 videos
Dancers filmed to this year's music
- Carlos Perez20 videos
- Rino Fraina19 videos
- Graziella Pulvirenti19 videos
- Rosa Forte17 videos
- Mariano Chicho Frúmboli17 videos
- Horacio Pebete Godoy15 videos
- Juana Sepulveda12 videos
- Jonatan Aguero10 videos
- El Chino Perico9 videos
Data: recordings, facts and sources
Recordings15
Juan D'Arienzo — 12 recordings1935
Single sourceMiguel Caló — 7 recordings1935
Single sourceOsvaldo Fresedo — 11 recordings1935
Single sourceEdgardo Donato — 19 recordings1935
Single sourceFrancisco Canaro — 43 recordings1935
Single sourceFrancisco Lomuto — 18 recordings1935
Single sourceTípica Victor — 2 recordings1935
Single sourceJulio De Caro — 4 recordings1935
Single sourceRoberto Firpo — 14 recordings1935
Single sourceJuan Canaro — 4 recordings1935
Single sourceOrquesta Victor Popular — 1 recordings1935
Single sourceTrío Ciriaco Ortiz — 1 recordings1935
Single sourceNo hay que hacerse mala sangre (Francisco Canaro) — March 20, 1935
Single sourceLa bordadora (Roberto Firpo) — March 22, 1935
Single sourceLa tortuguita (Roberto Firpo) — March 22, 1935
Single sourceWhat happened56
Guillermo Barbieri sails north with Riverol and Aguilar to join Gardel's tour.
Single sourceRoberto Maida: First session with Canaro, including "Cambalache" and "Alma de bandoneón".
Single sourceRoberto Díaz records Retazo with Osvaldo Fresedo on 22 March before leaving for Europe.
Single sourceCarlos Varela records Cero a cero with Firpo for Odeon.
Single sourceAlfredo Le Pera dies with Gardel in the air crash at Medellín.
Single sourceJosé María Aguilar survives the Medellín air crash, badly burned; his playing career ends.
Single sourceCarlos Gardel dies in an air crash in Medellín, Colombia, during a tour of the Caribbean and Latin America.
Single sourceÁngel Domingo Riverol: Injured in the Medellín air crash; dies two days later.
Single sourcePrincipe Azul dies on Trinidad after falling ill on the voyage to the United States.
Single sourceOsvaldo Fresedo plays at the inauguration of LR1 Radio El Mundo, adding vibraphone, harp and drums.
Single sourcePuppi Castello: Born in Buenos Aires (Todotango gives 1936).
Single sourceVíctor Lavallén: Born in Rosario, Santa Fe.
Single sourceRodolfo Biagi: First recording with D'Arienzo, Orillas de plata; with him he also plays on LR1 Radio El Mundo.
Supported · 2Juan D'Arienzo: Rodolfo Biagi, newly on piano, makes his first recording with the orchestra, Orillas del Plata.
Supported · 2Agustin Magaldi: The Magaldi-Noda duo splits on 31 December.
Single sourceEl Negro Lavandina starts dancing in the mid-1930s, in the D'Arienzo years (approximate).
Single sourceAlberto Marino makes his singing debut on Radio Mitre.
Single sourceMaria de la Fuente joins Eduardo Ferri's female vocal quartet on the new Radio El Mundo.
Single sourceJosé Basso starts playing professionally at sixteen in Alberto Cima's orchestra.
Single sourceEdmundo Rivero: Hired as singer by José De Caro's orchestra, his first orchestra job.
Single sourceEnrique Alessio starts in a bandoneon trio with Manuel Daponte and Luis Bonnat.
Single sourceJoaquin Do Reyes: Around this time forms his first orchestra, for the Chantecler cabaret on Paraná and Corrientes.
Single sourceEmilio Balcarce joins Ricardo Ivaldi's group, playing dances and the El Indio resort in Vicente López.
Single sourceFulvio Salamanca founds the Orquesta Mickey in Las Varillas and tours Córdoba province.
Single sourceEnrique Díaz plays double bass with José Pascual and Anselmo Aieta.
Single sourceAlberto Arenas: Professional debut.
Single sourceAlberto Amor: Florindo Sassone picks him for his new orchestra and names him Alberto Amor; they play the Café El Nacional.
Single sourceAstor Piazzolla appears as a newspaper boy in Carlos Gardel's film El día que me quieras, shot in New York.
Single sourceHéctor Varela joins Enrique Santos Discépolo's orchestra on Radio Municipal, later Libertad Lamarque's group on Radio Belgrano.
Single sourceRoberto Caló: Signed by Jaime Yankelevich for three years: Radio Porteña, Mitre and LR3 Radio Belgrano.
Single sourceAlberto Castillo sings with Augusto Berto's orchestra.
Single sourceJosé Canet writes the vals Me besó y se fue.
Single sourceJosé Tinelli leads his orchestra on Radio Stentor in Buenos Aires.
Single sourceVictor D'Amario debuts his own orchestra at the Confitería París in La Plata.
Single sourceRicardo Pedevilla: Trio with Samuel Averbuj and Oscar de la Fuente on Radio La Nación, into 1936.
Single sourceJorge Ortiz joins Edgardo Donato; first recordings Dios lo sabe and Rosalinda; records El día que me quieras.
Single sourceRicardo Ruiz sings in Canaro's musical Rascacielos; stands in for Roberto Ray with Fresedo and records Canto Siboney.
Single sourceCarlos Pesce writes A pesar de todo with Teófilo and Mario Lespés.
Single sourceHugo Baralis moves with Troilo into Ángel D'Agostino's orchestra, whose singer was Alberto Echagüe.
Single sourceEnrique Rodríguez forms a quartet to accompany María Luisa Notar, whom he soon marries.
Single sourceÁngel Vargas makes his first records, Brindemos compañero and Ñata linda, with José Luis Padula's orchestra for Odeon.
Single sourceAlfredo Malerba: Back in Buenos Aires, forms a trio with Antonio Rodio to accompany Libertad Lamarque.
Single sourceLuis Rubistein founds the PAADI school of popular art at the family house on Tejedor street, soon moved to Callao 420.
Single sourceIvo Pelay writes Casas viejas with Francisco Canaro.
Single sourceEduardo Del Piano joins Juan Canaro's orchestra late in the year, later playing the Tabarís cabaret.
Single sourceAntonio Maida shares Donato's vocals with Hugo del Carril.
Single sourceAlfredo Gobbi: First violin in Pedro Laurenz's orchestra.
Single sourceErnesto Famá appears in the film El alma del bandoneón.
Single sourceManuel Meaños: De puro guapo, with Pedro Laurenz, is introduced at the Club Atlético Independiente carnival dances.
Single sourceA. Bardi leaves the company La Cargadora, which he had come to manage.
Single sourceRaúl Kaplun publishes his first known work, the vals Recordando a Musmé.
Single sourceJorge Omar wins the audition to replace Fernando Díaz in Francisco Lomuto's orchestra.
Single sourceCarlos Viván appears in Noches cariocas, filmed in Rio de Janeiro.
Single sourceManuel Romero debuts as a film director, beginning a long run of Lumiton films.
Single sourceAdolfo Avilés hosts the radio cycle Tangos, autores e intérpretes with Pepita Avellaneda.
Single sourceAgustin Magaldi: The Magaldi-Noda duo breaks up at the end of the year; he continues as a soloist.
Single sourcePlayed in6
Lidio Fasoli — Played in Juan D'Arienzo.1935
Single sourceLuis Visca — Played in Juan D'Arienzo.1935
Single sourceRodolfo Biagi — Played in Juan Canaro.1935
Supported · 2Alfredo Gobbi — Played in Pedro Laurenz.1935
Single sourceAníbal Troilo — Played in Radio Municipal.1935
Single sourceLucio Demare — Played in Francisco Canaro.1935
Single sourcePerformed at4
Rodolfo Biagi — Performed at Chantecler.1935
Supported · 2Pedro Laurenz — Performed at Los 36 Billares.1935
Single sourceWalter Cabral — Performed at Radio El Mundo.1935
Single sourceCarlos Gardel — Performed at New York.Mar 15, 1935
Single sourceOrchestras led3
Francisco Canaro — Led Francisco Canaro.1935
Single sourceFrancisco Lomuto — Led Francisco Lomuto.1935
Single sourcePedro Laurenz — Led Pedro Laurenz.1935
Single sourceDates1
Golden Age — date unknown1935
Single sourcePublished11
Volver — 1935
Single sourceArrabal amargo — 1935
Single sourceVolvió una noche — 1935
Single sourcePor una cabeza — 1935
Single sourceCasas viejas — 1935
Single sourcePa' lo que te va a durar — 1935
Single sourceYo también soñé — 1935
Single sourceA pesar de todo — 1935
Single sourceLuna arrabalera — 1935
Single sourceMe besó y se fue — 1935
Single sourceSi volviera Jesús — 1935
Single sourceNotes10
Radio Municipal — In 1935 Enrique Santos Discépolo's ensemble, with Héctor Varela, Lalo Scalise, Américo Caggiano and Aníbal Troilo, played on Radio Municipal and at several downtown venues.1935
Single sourceRadio Excelsior — LR5 Radio Excelsior, formerly Radio Brusa, was among the stations that lasted from about 1935; a later user of the Maipú 555 building.1935
Single sourceTeatro Colón — Decimotercer Baile de los Aviadores en el Teatro Colón1935
Single sourceGolden Age — New York: Gardel's last two Paramount films, El día que me quieras (January 1935) and Tango Bar (February 1935, filmed on Long Island), were directedJan 1935, Feb 20, 1935
Supported · 2Aeropuerto Olaya Herrera, Medellín — Death of Carlos Gardel: Gardel dies in the aircraft collision at Medellín.1935
Single sourceRadio El Mundo, Buenos Aires — Radio El Mundo begins broadcasting.1935
Single sourceEl Pibe del Abasto — At sixteen, in 1935, he debuted at the ABC salon on calle Boulogne Sur Mer1935
Single sourceEl Tano Elegancia — Around 1935 he lived with his partner Lina, a jukebox keeper at a Palermo café, in a conventillo on calle Gorriti1935
Single sourceNostalgias — Juan Carlos Cobián premieres Nostalgias in 1935.1935
Single sourcePor una cabeza — Carlos Gardel makes the first recording of Por una cabeza for RCA Victor in March 1935.Mar 1935
Single sourceBorn1
Mario Luna — Born.Jan 29, 1935
Single sourceSingers11
La caida de la estanteria (Edgardo Donato) — Sung by Hugo del Carril.Feb 5, 1935
Single sourceCongoja (Edgardo Donato) — Sung by Hugo del Carril.Feb 8, 1935
Single sourceMadame Ivonne (Edgardo Donato) — Sung by Alberto Gómez.Feb 20, 1935
Single sourceAlma de bandoneón (Francisco Canaro) — Sung by Roberto Maida.Mar 20, 1935
Single sourceCambalache (Francisco Canaro) — Sung by Roberto Maida.Mar 20, 1935
Single sourceGolondrinas (Francisco Canaro) — Sung by Roberto Maida.Mar 25, 1935
Single sourceMuchacho de cafetín (Edgardo Donato) — Sung by Hugo del Carril.Apr 4, 1935
Single sourceEl vals de los recuerdos (Edgardo Donato) — Sung by Hugo del Carril.Apr 4, 1935
Single sourceEl once (Osvaldo Fresedo) — Sung by Roberto Ray.Apr 5, 1935
Single sourceViaje de bodas (Francisco Canaro) — Sung by Roberto Maida.Apr 11, 1935
Single sourceNoches de Buenos Aires (Francisco Canaro) — Sung by Roberto Maida.Apr 23, 1935
Single sourceListen
- PerdonameTrío Ciriaco Ortiz · no clip yet1935
- La caida de la estanteriaEdgardo Donato · Hugo del Carril1935
- CongojaEdgardo Donato · Hugo del Carril1935
- PamperoOsvaldo Fresedo · Roberto Ray1935
- Isla de CapriOsvaldo Fresedo · Roberto Ray1935
- Dejate quererEdgardo Donato1935
- Madame IvonneEdgardo Donato · Alberto Gómez1935
- Santiago del esteroTípica Victor1935
- Murió la vecinitaTípica Victor · Alberto Gómez · no clip yet1935
- Alma de bandoneónFrancisco Canaro · Roberto Maida1935
- No hay que hacerse mala sangreFrancisco Canaro · Roberto Maida, Francisco Canaro1935
- CambalacheFrancisco Canaro · Roberto Maida1935
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