In the end I kind of liked how it came out.
It's always a challenge to mix a tanda with a beautiful and unique "Buscandote". Lidiya Ruslanova "Valenki 5 (cortina)" 0:36 I already wrote about the WWII history of Lidiya Ruslanova's "Valenki" ("Felt Boots"), a hundred years old Gypsy dancing song which she resurrected in the 1940s and famously performed, by the crowd's request, at the steps of the ruined Reichstag in Berlin in May 1945.Ġ24. Carlos Di Sarli Roberto Rufino "Pena Mulata" 1941 2:27 Carlos Di Sarli Roberto Rufino "Zorzal" 1941 2:40Ġ23.
Carlos Di Sarli Roberto Rufino "La Mulateada" 1941 2:22Ġ22. Leonid Utesov "Road to Berlin (fast)" 0:30Ġ21. Ángel D'Agostino - Ángel Vargas "Solo compasion" 1941 2:58Ġ19. Ángel D'Agostino - Ángel Vargas "Ahora No Me Conocés" 1941 2:35Ġ18. Scorticati) - Angel Vargas "Adios Buenos Aires" 1938 2:36Ġ17.
We're into old style tonight, right? Adolfo Carabelli was one of the most talented tango orchestra directors before the upheavals of the Great Depression. Leonid Utesov "Road to Berlin (slow)" 0:27 Then in the next couplet, the next city is taken, and the song continues.Ġ12. In each couplet, it brags about taking a city, and seeing a street sign with a name of another city down the road. "Road to Berlin" is indelibly linked with the memories of triumphal advances of the Red Army in 1944-1945, and in fact it improvised the lyrics and even its very title from month to month and from a military unit to a military unit, starting out as "Road to Minsk" when Berlin still seemed so far, far away. The Jewish enfant terrible from the freewheeling Odessa already achieved stardom as a jazz and folk singer (and of some classic tangos such as "Serdtse") before WWII, and during the war, he was all over the frontlines with concerts. I played Leonid Utesov's cortinas before. Aníbal Troilo - Edmundo Rivero - Floreal Ruiz "Lagrimitas De Mi Corazón" 1948 3:00
Anibal Troilo - Floreal Ruiz "Lloraras, Lloraras" 1945 2:52Ġ11. Aníbal Troilo - Floreal Ruiz "Flor de lino" 1947 2:53Ġ10.
Tango instrumental playlist movie#
" Smuglyanka" ("Darkie girl", also "Moldovan girl") has been composed in 1940 and became wildly popular towards the end of WWII, but to my generation it's mostly known from an iconic 1973 movie about the war, " Only Old Men are Going to Battle" (clip from the movie below)Ġ09. Osvaldo Fresedo - Instrumental "Tigre viejo" 1934 3:01Ġ02. Osvaldo Fresedo - Instrumental "Derecho viejo" 1941 2:27Ġ03. Osvaldo Fresedo - Instrumental "La Viruta" 1957 3:32 so I'm starting bolder and bigger than usual, with a tanda spanning 25 years of Fresedo's recors:Ġ01. But it leaves room for just one instrumental tanda. It's been just 3 days since Osvaldo Fresedo's birthday and I plan to play several tandas in honor of this pioneering musician and probably the most influential one in the tango world of the 1920s. The vintage crew from Salt Lake sets the tone for the night :)
Tango instrumental playlist license#
The theme for the Saturday night Grand Milonga was "Vintage" and I took it as a license to play several seriously old tandas (and to sport a beret for a good portion of the night, too :) ) I would like to start from thanking Patrick for entrusting me with the Grand Milonga of Missoula Tango Marathon, and Buell for his hospitality, and the tango community of Missoula and the whole wider, wilder North for their companionship, for their support, and for the memorable tandas! It was my first time dancing in Montana and I so look forward to another time!