Year
Tango in 1970
Pinned at 1970 · Nuevo 1955–1984
Our catalogue holds 123 recordings from 1970. The orchestras recorded most that year were Juan D'Arienzo (28 recordings), Trío Yumba (24 recordings), and Aníbal Troilo (16 recordings).
That year
Azucena Maizani dies in Buenos Aires.
Enrique Campos dies in Buenos Aires, aged 57.
Félix Lipesker dies.
Tito Reyes records Milonga de corralón, the last of his 23 Troilo sides.
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What was playing?
The records of 1970
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.
The studio calendar
1970, day by day
74 sides dated to the day, across 27 days. The stronger the mark, the more was cut. Tap one to hear it.
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Events where this year's music was danced
- Viva La Pepa17 videos
- Planetango12 videos
- Catania Tango Festival11 videos
- Milonga La Baldosa10 videos
- Mediterranean Summer Tango Festival9 videos
- Mundial de Baile de Tango9 videos
- Lisbon Tango Festival8 videos
- TanGo To Istanbul7 videos
- Łódź Tango Salon Festival7 videos
- Brussels Tango Festival7 videos
- Milonga en lo de Balmaceda6 videos
- Belgrade Tango Encuentro6 videos
Dancers filmed to this year's music
- Carlitos Espinoza62 videos
- Maja Petrović49 videos
- Gabriel Missé43 videos
- Marko Miljevic40 videos
- Agustina Piaggio37 videos
- Vanesa Villalba31 videos
- Facundo Piñero31 videos
- Noelia Hurtado25 videos
- Ruben Veliz21 videos
- Analía Centurion21 videos
Data: recordings, facts and sources
Recordings12
Juan D'Arienzo — 28 recordings1970
Single sourceAníbal Troilo — 16 recordings1970
Single sourceOsvaldo Pugliese — 8 recordings1970
Single sourceAlfredo De Angelis — 2 recordings1970
Single sourceEnrique Francini — 10 recordings1970
Single sourceJosé Basso — 14 recordings1970
Single sourceFlorindo Sassone — 15 recordings1970
Single sourceDonato Racciatti — 1 recordings1970
Single sourceTrío Yumba — 24 recordings1970
Single sourceAníbal Troilo y Astor Piazzolla — 2 recordings1970
Single sourceAlberto Morán — 1 recordings1970
Single sourceHoracio Salgan y Dante Amicarelli — 2 recordings1970
Single sourceWhat happened41
Azucena Maizani dies in Buenos Aires.
Single sourceEnrique Campos dies in Buenos Aires, aged 57.
Single sourceFélix Lipesker dies.
Single sourceTito Reyes records Milonga de corralón, the last of his 23 Troilo sides.
Single sourceAlejandro Scarpino dies in Buenos Aires.
Single sourceVanina Bilous: Born on 1 July in Villa Urquiza.
Single sourceCiriaco Ortiz dies in Buenos Aires.
Single sourceMariano Chicho Frúmboli: Born in Buenos Aires on 21 September.
Single sourceMario Melfi dies in Arcachon.
Single sourceRoberto Chanel: Interviewed by the magazine Primera Plana, he denies rumours that he is nearly blind and destitute.
Single sourceElba Garcia loses her first husband in a road accident, two months before Nito loses his wife.
Single sourceNélida Rodríguez meets Nelson Ávila; they form Nélida y Nelson.
Single sourceMaría Graña wins the Canta el pueblo contest on Canal 7.
Single sourceOsvaldo Cartery stops dancing for about three decades after marrying Coca (approximate).
Single sourceNelson Ávila forms Nélida y Nelson with Nélida Rodríguez.
Single sourceEladia Blázquez records her first tango album; Mi ciudad y mi gente wins the Festival de la Canción de Buenos Aires.
Single sourceDaniel Binelli: Co-founds the Quinteto Guardia Nueva with Juan José Mosalini.
Single sourceSexteto Tango: Long tour of the Americas, from Chile to Santo Domingo, ending in Los Angeles.
Single sourceNéstor Marconi Octeto de Buenos Aires joins Enrique Mario Francini's sextet; forms the Vanguatrío with Héctor Console and Horacio Valente.
Single sourceAmelita Baltar records Balada para un loco for CBS-Columbia.
Single sourceJuan José Mosalini: Co-leads the Quinteto Guardia Nueva with Daniel Binelli; records for Fermata.
Single sourceRaúl Hormaza stops working in tango for health reasons.
Single sourceDante Amicarelli philips releases the duo album Dos virtuosos del piano.
Single sourceArmando Guerrico: Last professional show, folk songs as Armando Duval, at Mi Refugio.
Single sourceLos Muchachos De Antes: Cao appears on the television programme Volviendo a vivir el tango.
Single sourceRaúl Bravo: Todotango dates the Todaro-Bravo method and academies to 1970–1985; Bravo said they closed in 1980.
Single sourceOsvaldo Ruggiero: Long tour of the Americas with the sextet, ending in Los Angeles.
Single sourceOsvaldo Berlingieri: Co-leads a trio with Leopoldo Federico and Fernando Cabarcos, recording more than thirty instrumentals for Victor.
Single sourceRoberto Goyeneche sings regularly at Caño 14, a central stage of the porteño night.
Single sourceFernán Silva Valdés wins Uruguay's Gran Premio Nacional de Literatura.
Single sourceRosita Quiroga travels to Osaka, invited by a tango club named after her.
Single sourceOscar Ferrari returns to Pontier; in 1973 sings with Leo Lipersker.
Single sourceHugo Marcel: Six-month tour of the United States with Beba Bidart.
Single sourceEnrique Francini forms a sextet with Néstor Marconi that debuts at Caño 14.
Single sourceJorge Vidal records in Spain with Waldo de los Ríos's orchestra.
Single sourceJosé Basso returns to Japan with singers Alfredo Belusi, Alicia Randal and Carlos Rossi.
Single sourceRoberto Pansera: Long tour of Japan with José Basso's orchestra.
Single sourceOsvaldo Ramos appears with D'Arienzo at Michelángelo and Chantecler.
Single sourceHoracio Salgan plays at Lincoln Center in New York.
Single sourceMario Demarco dies in Buenos Aires.
Single sourceNito Garcia says that on returning from his honeymoon in 1970, his mother and his (first) wife both died in the same accident -- his own profile only records the loss of his first wife that year, with no mention of his mother.
Single sourcePlayed in1
Alcides Rossi — Played in Osvaldo Pugliese.1970
Single sourcePublished1
Mi ciudad y mi gente — 1970
Single sourceNotes4
Nuevo — Japan: the Min-On Tango Series began, bringing Argentine tango artists to Japan every year1970
Single sourceConfitería Ideal — In the 1970s the owners' descendants closed most of the first floor to turn it into a hall for milongas; it later became a tango1970
Single sourceBuenos Aires — Leloir wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Leloir is the first Argentine Nobel in Chemistry.1970, May 1970, May 19, 1970
Supported · 3Julio Videla — He died in the spring of 19701970
Single sourceDates1
Nuevo — Occurred at Confitería Ideal.1970
Single sourceDied6
Azucena Maizani — Died.Jan 15, 1970
Supported · 3Mario Demarco — Died.Feb 4, 1970
Supported · 2Luis Mandarino — Died.Feb 26, 1970
Single sourceEnrique Campos — Died.Mar 13, 1970
Single sourceCiriaco Ortiz — Died.Jul 9, 1970
Supported · 2Mario Melfi — Died.Sep 21, 1970
Supported · 2Singers1
Hasta el último tren (Osvaldo Pugliese) — Sung by Abel Córdoba.Jul 1, 1970
Single sourceBorn1
Vanina Bilous — Born.Jul 1, 1970
Single sourceListen
- Una piba como vosAlfredo De AngelisJulián RosalestangoOdeon
- CascabelitoFlorindo SassoneOscar MacritangoOdeon
- La virutaFlorindo SassoneinstrumentaltangoOdeon
- Mañanitas de MontmartreAníbal TroiloinstrumentaltangoRCA Victor
- Milonga del corralónAníbal TroiloTito ReyesmilongaRCA Victor
- Naipe marcadoAníbal TroiloinstrumentaltangoRCA Victor
- Entre sueñosAníbal TroiloinstrumentaltangoRCA Victor
- Vida míaFlorindo SassoneOscar MacritangoOdeon
- La cumparsitaFlorindo SassoneOscar MacritangoOdeon
- Fuegos artificialesFlorindo SassoneinstrumentaltangoOdeon
- El chamuyoFlorindo SassoneinstrumentaltangoOdeon
- En el lago azulFlorindo SassoneinstrumentaltangoOdeon
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