Our catalogue holds 140 recordings from 1936. The orchestras recorded most that year were Francisco Canaro (38 recordings), Juan D'Arienzo (24 recordings), and Francisco Lomuto (14 recordings).
That year
Osvaldo Pugliese: member of the Communist Party from 1936.
Golden Age: unilaterally denounced by the United Kingdom.
Golden Age: Nobel Peace Prize.
Francisco Amor debuts with Florindo Sassone's orchestra at the Café El Nacional and on Radio Belgrano.
Alberto Amor: Professional debut on Radio Belgrano with Sassone.
Florindo Sassone: His first orchestra debuts on Radio Belgrano and plays the café Nacional and the cabaret Marabú, with Alberto Amor singing.
Raúl Garello: Born in Chacabuco, Buenos Aires Province.
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The records of 1936
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.
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Events where this year's music was danced
- Windy City Tango Festival13 videos
- Viva La Pepa13 videos
- Planetango9 videos
- Mundial de Baile de Tango8 videos
- A los Amigos Tango Festival8 videos
- Gente Amiga7 videos
- Milonga La Baldosa7 videos
- Milongueros All Aboard7 videos
- Toronto Tango Festival6 videos
- Lisbon Tango Festival6 videos
- El Motivo Tango6 videos
- Catania Summer Tango Week5 videos
Dancers filmed to this year's music
- Mariano Chicho Frúmboli100 videos
- Juana Sepulveda87 videos
- Christian Marquez41 videos
- Virginia Gomez38 videos
- Federico Naveira23 videos
- Noelia Hurtado22 videos
- Michael Nadtochi20 videos
- Gabriel Missé17 videos
- Giselle Anne17 videos
- Carlitos Espinoza17 videos
- Mariela Sametband16 videos
Data: recordings, facts and sources
Recordings18
Juan D'Arienzo — 24 recordings1936
Single sourceMiguel Caló — 6 recordings1936
Single sourceOsvaldo Fresedo — 5 recordings1936
Single sourceEdgardo Donato — 12 recordings1936
Single sourceFrancisco Canaro — 38 recordings1936
Single sourceFrancisco Lomuto — 14 recordings1936
Single sourceTípica Victor — 3 recordings1936
Single sourceJulio De Caro — 9 recordings1936
Single sourceRoberto Firpo — 13 recordings1936
Single sourceCuarteto Típico Roberto Firpo — 4 recordings1936
Single sourceEnrique Santos Discepolo — 1 recordings1936
Single sourceTrío Ciriaco Ortiz — 1 recordings1936
Single sourceLas doce menos cinco (Francisco Canaro) — Recorded in Francisco Canaro.Apr 3, 1936
Single sourcePancha la curiosa (Francisco Canaro) — Recorded in Francisco Canaro.Apr 3, 1936
Single sourceIrene (Juan D'Arienzo) — Recorded in Juan D'Arienzo.Jun 9, 1936, Jul 9, 1936
Supported · 2Alberto Morel — Recorded in Buenos Aires.Jul 13, 1936
Single sourcePaquiya (Francisco Canaro) — Recorded in Francisco Canaro.Jul 17, 1936
Single sourceInolvidable (Juan D'Arienzo) — Recorded in Juan D'Arienzo.Aug 5, 1936
Single sourceWhat happened59
Francisco Amor debuts with Florindo Sassone's orchestra at the Café El Nacional and on Radio Belgrano.
Single sourceAlberto Amor: Professional debut on Radio Belgrano with Sassone.
Single sourceFlorindo Sassone: His first orchestra debuts on Radio Belgrano and plays the café Nacional and the cabaret Marabú, with Alberto Amor singing.
Single sourceRaúl Garello: Born in Chacabuco, Buenos Aires Province.
Single sourceEnrique Campos: First public performance at the Cine Helvético in Colonia Suiza, with guitarists Alfredo Solís and Carlos Méndez.
Single sourceTete Rusconi: Born in Pompeya on 9 January.
Single sourceJorge Omar records a sung version of A la gran muñeca with Lomuto for Victor.
Single sourceMercedes Simone: Sombras porteñas, directed by Daniel Tinayre, opens.
Single sourceAndrés Falgás: First record, for Odeon: Pena de amor and Cofrecito.
Single sourceFlaco Dany: Born on 8 May in La Paternal, Buenos Aires.
Single sourceJuan Carlos Bazán dies.
Single sourceJorge Ortiz sings with Donato at an RCA-Victor festival at the Cine Ambassador.
Single sourceABEL AZNAR: Nelly Omar premieres his first tango, Igual te quiero, on the radio.
Single sourceEduardo Arquimbau: Born in Buenos Aires on 28 November.
Single sourceAlberto Dassieu: Born, in the year the Obelisk was inaugurated.
Single sourceNito Garcia: Born in Bragado; grows up in Avellaneda.
Single sourceHéctor Stamponi comes to Buenos Aires with Juan Elhert's group and plays the matinée at Juan Manuel; then forms a trio with Francini and Pontier on Radio Argentina.
Single sourceRoberto Rufino debuts professionally at Café El Nacional with Francisco Rosse's orchestra, then sings at the Petit Salón with Antonio Bonavena.
Single sourceFloreal Ruiz wins a singing contest on Radio Fénix, entered under a pseudonym.
Single sourceHéctor Mauré debuts as Tito Falivene at the café Río de la Plata, at Ángel Gallardo and Honorio Pueyrredón, singing there three months.
Single sourceJulio Martel: The family moves to Munro, where he starts singing.
Single sourceÁngel Cabral composes the vals Que nadie sepa mi sufrir with Enrique Dizeo.
Single sourceHéctor Grané joins Pedro Laurenz's orchestra as pianist at the end of the year.
Single sourceAniceto Rossi meets Osvaldo Pugliese and plays bass in his early attempts at an orchestra.
Single sourceHugo Diaz debuts at nine on a radio station in Santiago del Estero.
Single sourceOscar Serpa debuts in Buenos Aires as Alfredo Pelaia's duo partner.
Single sourceJuan Carlos Godoy: His family moves to La Boca, Buenos Aires.
Single sourceMiguel Montero: First barrio performance, at Club All Boys.
Single sourceAlfredo De Angelis forms the Orquesta Típica Álvarez-De Angelis with Daniel Álvarez; it plays the Café Germinal for over a year.
Single sourceJosé Basso joins the orchestra of Emilio and José De Caro, replacing Héctor Grané; Francisco Grillo and José Tinelli follow.
Single sourceMariano Mores: Hired as pianist for international music at Bar Vicente on Corrientes, after an audition.
Single sourceJosé Garcia settles the Zorros Grises line-up with pianist Juan Carlos Barbará and singers Augusto Gauthier and Nilda Wilson.
Single sourceJuan Cambareri joins Roberto Firpo's Cuarteto Los de Antes, after first playing in Firpo's orchestra as a teenager.
Single sourceCarlos Bahr turns to popular song after being turned back in Montevideo on his way to the Spanish Civil War.
Single sourceOrlando Goñi joins Juan Carlos Cobián's orchestra, where he plays again beside Aníbal Troilo.
Single sourceRoberto Grela leads the guitars accompanying Fernando Díaz, until 1938.
Single sourceAlberto Arenas sings with Alberto Pugliese's orchestra, including at the Cabaret D'Azur.
Single sourceOsvaldo Pugliese plays in Miguel Caló's group; the same year he joins the Communist Party.
Single sourceHoracio Salgan: Roberto Firpo hires him for his orchestra; around the same time he arranges for Miguel Caló.
Single sourceTípica Victor: Federico Scorticati takes over as director; first session with Héctor Palacios.
Single sourceRicardo Pedevilla joins Joaquín Mora's orchestra.
Single sourceJosé Pascual: His tango Mi ruego is dated to this year.
Single sourceMauricio Mise joins Pedro Laurenz's orchestra at Confitería Richmond, replacing Alfredo Gobbi.
Single sourceHugo del Carril meets Tito Ribero at Radio El Mundo; records for Victor with his orchestra.
Single sourceRicardo Tanturi enlarges the orchestra and plays the summer season at the Hotel Carrasco in Montevideo, for which he writes the march 'Carrasco'.
Single sourceEnrique Rodríguez founds his own orchestra, which debuts at the Cabaret Sing Sing.
Single sourceCarlos Dante forms a duo with Pedro Noda at Agustín Irusta's suggestion.
Single sourceLuis César Amadori: Co-directs his first film, Puerto Nuevo, with Mario Soffici.
Single sourceEnrique Dizeo writes the Peruvian vals Que nadie sepa mi sufrir with Ángel Cabral.
Single sourceJulio César Sanders writes the music for the film Canillita.
Single sourceFeliciano Brunelli: Pianist of the Cuarteto del 900 with Vardaro, Troilo and Bour, on Radio Mitre.
Single sourceAntonio Rodio founds Los Poetas del Tango with singer Francisco Fiorentino, heard on Radio Belgrano.
Single sourceAgustin Irusta returns to Buenos Aires; the trio appears in Canaro's revue La patria del tango at the Teatro Buenos Aires.
Single sourceLuis Díaz sings with Eugenio Nóbile's orchestra on LS3 Radio Ultra; hired by Radio Splendid in December.
Single sourceAlberto Gómez: Leading role in Juan Moreira.
Single sourceAntonio Maida: Soloist with guitars on Radio Belgrano; premieres Media noche.
Single sourceTino García: Hired by Héctor Bates to replace Carlos Roldán.
Single sourcePedro Laurenz plays the Confitería Richmond on Suipacha and broadcasts on Radio Excelsior and Radio Stentor.
Single sourceAlfredo Gobbi appears in the films Amalia and Loco lindo.
Single sourceNotes12
Osvaldo Pugliese — member of the Communist Party from 19361936
Single sourceRadio Stentor — With Fénix, aired Tangos, autores e intérpretes (Héctor and Luis Bates), which led to their 1936 book La historia del tango.1936
Single sourceHéctor Bates — Héctor and Luis Bates's interview programme 'Tangos, autores e intérpretes' aired successively on Nacional (the later Belgrano), Stentor and Fénix and gave rise to their1936
Single sourceAvenida Corrientes — Ensanche de la Avenida Corrientes: The widening of Corrientes, begun in 1931 and completed in 1936, gave the tango street its present breadth; it cost1936
Single sourceTeatro Ópera — Owner Clemente Lococo used the 1936 widening of Corrientes to build the third and definitive Teatro Ópera (the article also says Alberto Bourdon conceived the1936
Single sourceTeatro Colón — Baile de carnaval de 1936 en el Teatro Colón1936
Single sourceObelisco — Punto de encuentro: the Obelisco is a usual meeting point for demonstrations that spill onto 9 de Julio and Corrientes, much as Plaza de Mayo1936
Single sourceObelisco de Buenos Aires — Obelisco inaugurated: Built in 31 days for the city's 400th anniversary.1936, May 23, 1936
Single sourceAvenida Corrientes, Buenos Aires — Widening of Avenida Corrientes: The widening of Corrientes.1936
Single sourceEdificio Kavanagh, Buenos Aires — Edificio Kavanagh completed: Tallest reinforced-concrete building in South America.1936
Single sourceLínea C (subte de Buenos Aires) — Extension: the line was extended to Retiro on 6 February 1936; Lavalle station opened the same day.Feb 6, 1936
Single sourceGolden Age — Buenos Aires: Puerto Nuevo (1936), directed by Mario Soffici and Luis César Amadori (Argentina Sono Film), premiered on 12 February 1936 with Pepe Arias, AliciaFeb 12, 1936
Single sourceDates1
Golden Age — unilaterally denounced by the United Kingdom1936, May 1, 1936, May 23, 1936
Supported · 4Published5
Milonga triste — 1936
Single sourceArrepentido — 1936
Single sourceEnvidia — 1936
Single sourceEn las sombras — 1936
Single sourceLevanta la frente — 1936
Single sourcePlayed in4
Ciriaco Ortiz — Played in Juan Carlos Cobian.1936
Single sourcePedro Maffia — Played in Quinteto Los Virtuosos.1936
Single sourceLuis Petrucelli — Played in Osvaldo Fresedo.1936
Single sourceAntonio Buglione — Played in Alberto Cima.1936
Single sourceBorn2
Raúl Garello — Born.Jan 3, 1936
Single sourceAlfredo Zitarrosa — Born.Mar 10, 1936
Single sourceSingers13
Silueta porteña (Juan D'Arienzo) — Sung by Walter Cabral.Jan 14, 1936
Single sourceA la gran muñeca (Francisco Lomuto) — Sung by Jorge Omar.Jan 15, 1936
Single sourceIrene (Juan D'Arienzo) — Sung by Walter Cabral.Mar 6, 1936
Single sourceLa tapera (Edgardo Donato) — Sung by Félix Gutiérrez.Mar 10, 1936
Single sourceMe decías (Osvaldo Fresedo) — Sung by Roberto Ray.Apr 2, 1936
Single sourceUn placer (Juan D'Arienzo) — Sung by Walter Cabral.Apr 3, 1936
Single sourceTu olvido (Juan D'Arienzo) — Sung by Walter Cabral.May 8, 1936
Single sourceComo las flores (Francisco Canaro) — Sung by Roberto Maida.May 12, 1936
Single sourceSerá una noche (Francisco Canaro) — Sung by Roberto Maida.Jun 3, 1936
Single sourceLas campanas (Miguel Caló) — Sung by Alberto Morel.Jul 13, 1936
Single sourceMi noche triste (Francisco Canaro) — Sung by Roberto Maida.Jul 14, 1936
Single sourceDamisela encantadora (Francisco Lomuto) — Sung by Jorge Omar.Aug 7, 1936
Single sourceQue le importa al mundo (Francisco Canaro) — Sung by Roberto Maida.Aug 26, 1936
Single sourceListen
- Silueta porteñaJuan D'Arienzo · Walter Cabral1936
- La guitarritaJuan D'Arienzo1936
- A la gran muñecaFrancisco Lomuto · Jorge Omar1936
- ChiquéEdgardo Donato1936
- RetintínJuan D'Arienzo1936
- Sueño floridoJuan D'Arienzo1936
- IreneJuan D'Arienzo · Walter Cabral1936
- MañanaEdgardo Donato · Félix Gutiérrez1936
- La taperaEdgardo Donato · Félix Gutiérrez1936
- Yo también soñéFrancisco Canaro · Roberto Maida1936
- Después arreglamosFrancisco Lomuto · Jorge Omar1936
- Qué fácil es decirFrancisco Lomuto · Jorge Omar1936
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