Encyclopedia of Tango

Gabriel Valiente

Copyright c 2014 Gabriel Valiente

All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-4960-8317-3

Preface
Tango, declared cultural heritage of Buenos Aires in 1998 and intangible
cultural heritage of humanity by the UNESCO in 2009, is probably the
only cultural manifestation throughout history that embodies music,
dance, and poetry. Tango music is both an object of study for scholars in
several disciplines and an object of devotion for musicians, dancers,
teachers, disc-jockeys, and collectors all around the world. This
encyclopedia gives a detailed account of tango recordings before, during,
and after the golden age of tango, along with tango orchestras, musicians,
and singers.
Written for anyone who is interested in tango music, from scholars over
practitioners to professionals, it will hopefully become the ultimate source
where to look for details about the orchestras, musicians, and singers that
have recorded tango music since the mid nineteen-twenties, when acoustic
recordings were abandoned in favor of electric recordings with the
invention of the condenser microphone.
Recordings are sorted in chronological order of recording date and matrix
number, which does not always reflect the order in which the tracks were
transferred to disc. They are arranged by orchestra director along with
the orchestras line-up, in an eort to identify as faithfully as possible the
actual musicians that took part in the recording of each individual track.
Singers are listed along with their vocal range: soprano, mezzo-soprano,
and contralto for female voices, and tenor, baritone, and bass for male
voices.
Named orchestras are listed under the orchestras director, including the
following ones:
Caldara - Ruiz - Lesica Jorge Caldara
Color Tango Roberto Alvarez
Donato - Zerrillo Edgardo Donato
Echag
ue - Laborde Alberto Di Paulo
Federico - Rulio Leopoldo Federico
Florio - Dur
an Orlando Trpodi
Francini - Pontier Enrique Francini

Los Reyes del Comp

as Ernesto Franco
Orquesta Smbolo Osmar Maderna Aquiles Roggero
Orquesta Tpica Los Provincianos Ciriaco Ortiz
Orquesta Tpica Porte
na Ra
ul Garello
Orquesta Tpica Vctor Luis Petrucelli, Adolfo Carabelli, Federico
Scorticati, and Mario Maurano.
Sexteto Mayor Luis Stazo
Stampone - Federico Leopoldo Federico
Troilo - Grela Anbal Troilo
In a similar vein, singer orchestras are also listed under the orchestras
director:
Aldo Calder
on Ismael Spitalnik
Alberto Castillo Emilio Balcarce, Enrique Alessio, Angel Condercuri,
Ra
ul Bianchi, Jorge Dragone, and Osvaldo Requena
Ada Denis Francisco Tr
oppoli
Alberto Echag
ue Jorge Dragone
Armando Laborde Angel Domnguez and Jorge Dragone
Argentino Ledesma Jorge Dragone, Mario Demarco, Carlos Garca,
Francisco Canaro, Luis Stazo, Osvaldo Requena, and Alberto Di
Paulo
Alberto Marino Emilio Balcarce, Enrique Alessio, Hector Artola,
Edelmiro Rodrguez, Hugo Baralis, Osvaldo Manzi, Hector
Stamponi, Osvaldo Tarantino, Alberto Di Paulo, and Carlos Garca
H
ector Maur
e Juan S
anchez Gorio, Carlos Demara, and Pascual Ela
Miguel Montero Jose Libertella, Armando Cupo, Angel Domnguez,
Aquiles Roggero, and Horacio Salg
an
Alberto Mor
an Armando Cupo and Leo Lpesker
Edmundo Rivero Vctor Buchino, Carlos Figari, Horacio Salgan, and
Hector Stamponi
Roberto Rufino Armando Cupo, Ernesto Franco, Leo Lpesker, and Ra
ul
Garello
Angel Vargas Eduardo Del Piano, Armando Lacava, Alejandro Scarpino,
Edelmiro DAmario, Daniel Lomuto, Luis Stazo, and Jose Libertella

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Information on each recording is arranged in four columns, giving the

tracks name, the name of the singer or singers, the musical genre, and the
recording date in Gregorian, day-month-year format, as in the following
example of the first electric recording on Odeon, by the orchestra of
Roberto Firpo, and the first electric recording on Vctor, by the singer
Rosita Quiroga accompanied by guitars:
Anoche a las dos
La musa mistonga

Instrumental
Rosita Quiroga

Tango
Tango

08.01.1926
01.03.1926

In an eort to keep it as simple as possible, no finer distinctions are made

within the genres of tango, vals, and milonga, and everything else is listed
as just song, with only a few exceptions.
Apart from the bibliography listed at the end, this encyclopedia is based
on unpublished discographies by Jorge E. Angella (El tango y sus discos
en la Rep
ublica Argentina, 19261959 ), discographies by Nicolas
Lefcovich published (in very limited editions) in Buenos Aires between
1982 and 2001, discographies by Carlos Puente published (also in very
limited editions) by the Buenos Aires Tango Club, the Los Grandes del
Tango collection published in Buenos Aires between 1990 and 1992, the
Viva el Tango! collection published by the National Academy of Tango
in Buenos Aires between 1995 and 1999, motivation by the world wide
community of tango disc-jockeys, and various online resources, including
Tango Info by Tobias Conradi (http://tango.info/), Todo Tango by
Ricardo Garca Blaya (http://www.todotango.com/), the discography of
Francisco Canaro by Christoph Lanner
(https://sites.google.com/site/franciscocanarodiscography/),
the Argentine Society of Music Authors and Composers
(http://www.sadaic.org.ar/), the Encyclopedic Discography of Victor
Recordings by the University of California, Santa Barbara
(http://victor.library.ucsb.edu/), the Tango Database by Bernhard
Gehberger (http://www.tango-dj.at/database/), the Archivo Digital
del Tango led by Ignacio Varchausky (http://www.tangovia.org/), and
Tango Tunes by Christian Xell (http://www.tangotunes.com/).

April 2014

Gabriel Valiente

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Contents
Anselmo Aieta

Roberto Alvarez

12

Enrique Alessio

18

Jorge Arduh

22

H
ector Artola

23

Alfredo Attada

26

Emilio Balcarce

28

Armando Baliotti

33

Hugo Baralis

34

Lorenzo Barbero

35

Jos
e Basso

37

Osvaldo Berlingieri

46

Rodolfo Biagi

48

Ra
ul Bianchi

54

Antonio Bonavena

56

Emilio Brameri

59

Ricardo Brignolo

61

Vctor Buchino

64

Manuel Buz
on

67

Jorge Caldara

69

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Miguel Cal
o

73

Roberto Cal
o

89

Juan Cambareri

92

Juan Carlos Camb

on

96

Francisco Canaro

98

Juan Canaro

171

Mario Canaro

173

Rafael Canaro

175

Adolfo Carabelli

179

Oscar Castagniaro

184

Alberto Castellanos

186

Juan Carlos Cobi

an

189

Ram
on Collazo

191

Angel Condercuri

192

Fernando C
ordoba

195

Armando Cupo

196

Angel DAgostino

202

Edelmiro DAmario

208

Vctor DAmario

209

Juan DArienzo

213

H
ector DEsp
osito

241

Alfredo De Angelis

242

Julio De Caro

260

Alfredo De Franco

272

Eduardo Del Piano

273

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Mario Demarco

276

Lucio Demare

278

Carlos Demara

283

Minotto Di Cicco

285

Alberto Di Paulo

288

Carlos Di Sarli

298

Joaqun Do Reyes

313

Angel Domnguez

316

Edgardo Donato

319

Jorge Dragone

332

Pascual Ela

339

Domingo Federico

342

Leopoldo Federico

350

Jorge Fern
andez

360

Agesilao Ferrazzano

361

Carlos Figari

363

Roberto Firpo

368

Enrique Francini

397

Ernesto Franco

404

Osvaldo Fresedo

405

Argentino Galv
an

427

Carlos Garca

431

Jos
e Garca

436

Ra
ul Garello

439

Roberto Garza

441

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Alfredo Gobbi

442

Graciano G
omez

446

Francisco Grillo

448

Juan Guido

449

Ra
ul Kapl
un

452

Armando Lacava

453

Carlos Lalia

456

Pedro L
aurenz

457

Luciano Leocata

462

Jos
e Libertella

463

Leo Lpesker

466

Daniel Lomuto

468

Francisco Lomuto

470

Osmar Maderna

493

Pedro Maffia

496

Juan Maglio

504

Alfredo Malerba

515

Ricardo Malerba

517

Alberto Mancione

519

Osvaldo Manzi

522

Domingo Marafioti

523

Antonio Marchese

524

Carlos Marcucci

525

Tito Martn

527

Mario Maurano

529

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Enrique Mora

532

Mariano Mores

536

Miguel Nijensohn

542

Emilio Orlando

546

Ciriaco Ortiz

547

Juan Jos
e Paz

550

Ricardo Pedevilla

552

Ariel Pedernera

554

Emilio Pellejero

556

Adolfo P
erez

557

Luis Petrucelli

560

Sebasti
an Piana

570

Astor Piazzolla

572

Osvaldo Piro

578

Juan Polito

582

Julio Pollero

586

Armando Pontier

588

Osvaldo Pugliese

598

Cayetano Puglisi

626

Dante Puricelli

628

Donato Racciatti

629

Osvaldo Requena

633

Tito Ribero

642

Antonio Rodio

644

Edelmiro Rodrguez

646

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Enrique Rodrguez

647

Aquiles Roggero

656

Francisco Rotundo

661

Eduardo Rovira

664

Domingo Rulio

665

Jos
e Sala

667

Fulvio Salamanca

672

Horacio Salg
an

678

Juan S
anchez Gorio

688

Florindo Sassone

694

Alejandro Scarpino

703

Federico Scorticati

704

Alberto Soifer

708

Ismael Spitalnik

709

Atilio Stampone

712

H
ector Stamponi

719

Luis Stazo

722

Antonio Sureda

732

Osvaldo Tarantino

734

Alberto Tali
an

736

Ricardo Tanturi

737

Jos
e Tinelli

744

Orlando Trpodi

745

Anbal Troilo

747

Francisco Tr
oppoli

774

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Elvino Vardaro

776

H
ector Varela

777

Roberto Zerrillo

791