Tango Videos
Recordings and films that go with our articles. Each picture leads to the article; the video itself plays there, from YouTube, after a click.
Singers
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Tita Merello – El choclo
Tita Merello's recording of El choclo, in a remastered official release. Her rough, half-spoken delivery is the voice behind the career she predicted for herself in 1934.
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Olga Lamas – La budinera
La budinera shows the humorous side of Olga Lamas, the repertoire that earned her the nickname «la voz traviesa del tango».
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Teresita Asprella
A recording by Teresita Asprella from an official release on YouTube Music.
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Anita Palmero – Botarate
Anita Palmero sings the tango Botarate.
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Francisco Canaro – Rosa de amor (1932)
Francisco Canaro's orchestra recorded the tango Rosa de amor on 24 November 1932, with Domingo Conte, Amanda Las Heras and chorus singing the refrain.
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Osvaldo Ribó and Roberto Grela – Una emoción
Osvaldo Ribó sings Una emoción, accompanied by the guitar of Roberto Grela.
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Carlos Di Sarli and Jorge Durán – Whisky (1957)
Jorge Durán sings Whisky with the orchestra of Carlos Di Sarli, a recording from 1957.
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Ángel Vargas with Ángel D’Agostino’s orchestra – La Cumparsita
Ángel Vargas sings La Cumparsita with the orchestra of Ángel D’Agostino. According to Ricardo García Blaya on Todotango, the two recorded it on 2 November 1945 with Matos Rodríguez’s own lyric of 1926, not Si supieras.
Composers and lyricists
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Nelly Omar – Desde el alma
Nelly Omar sings Rosita Melo's waltz Desde el alma with guitar accompaniment, in the version with Homero Manzi's lyrics.
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Charlo – Novia
Charlo sings Novia, filed under the name of the lyricist Francisco Gorrindo.
Orchestras and musicians
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Francisco Rotundo – El viejo vals
The orchestra of Francisco Rotundo plays El viejo vals, the Charlo waltz that Rotundo called his great find; as he recalled, Floreal Ruiz and Enrique Campos sang it as a duet.
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Alfredo Gobbi – Orlando Goñi
Orlando Goñi, the tango Alfredo Gobbi named after the pianist.
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Agustín Carlevaro – La bordona
Agustín Carlevaro plays La bordona, Emilio Balcarce's best-known tango, on the guitar.
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Ángel Cárdenas with the guitars of Peralta, Gorrías and Avilano
The singer Ángel Cárdenas on the programme Grandes valores del tango, accompanied by the guitars of C. Peralta, Juan Carlos Gorrías and Horacio Avilano.
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Si sos brujo – Emilio Balcarce
Si sos brujo, presented in Paul Bottomer's series «Today's Tango Is…» under the name of Emilio Balcarce.
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Ricardo Francia – Oblivion
Ricardo Francia plays Astor Piazzolla's Oblivion.
Voice and opera
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A voice class with Susana Naidich
Susana Naidich teaching a voice class, recorded by the Sociedad Argentina de la Voz.
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Giuseppe Anselmi – Che gelida manina
An early recording of the Italian tenor Giuseppe Anselmi singing «Che gelida manina» from Puccini's La Bohème, a glimpse of the opera repertoire of the Teatro Colón's early decades.
