The tango tanda of the week is with Alfedo De Angelis. Romantic tangos, sentimental tangos, with singers Carlos Dante en Julio Martel. Tango lyrics translated in English.

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Start 00:00
Tutorial 00:29
Pregonera 04:49
Remolino 07:08
Adiós Marinero 09:18
Pastora 11:58

Alfredo De Angelis was a pianist, composer and orchestra leader, born in Adrogué – just south of Buenos Aires – in 1912. He had a very successful orchestra. Recording with singers like Floreal Ruiz, Carlos Dante and Julio Martel in the 1940s, and Carlos Dante and Oscar Larroca in the 1950s.

De Angelis is popular in the milongas especially for his waltzes, like for instance ‘Soñar y nada más’, ‘Mi cariñito’, and ‘Ilusión azul’. His tangos however are a different matter. Like I said, De Angelis is the orchestra that some people just love to hate. The elite tends to look down on him, calling it music for the merry-go-round (la calesita), or “superficial dance music”. A Tango DJ that dares to play tangos by De Angelis runs the risk of being called a bad DJ, or at least having bad taste. (just so you know)

Well that’s all fine, and I do understand where this is coming from, he did go overboard from time to time. But De Angelis was very popular with the greater audience in the 1940s and ‘50s, and especially with the dancers. Some of his biggest successes were the duets he recorded with Carlos Dante and Julio Martel, not only waltzes but tangos as well. And these are the tangos we highlight in this tanda of the week.

Julio Pedro Harispe, or as we know him: Julio Martel was born in Baigorrita, in the province of Buenos Aires in 1923. In 1943 he joined the orchestra of Alfredo De Angelis. Including the duets together with Carlos Dante, Julio Martel recorded 80 tracks with the orchestra of De Angelis.

Carlos Dante was born in Buenos Aires in 1906, as Carlos Dante Testori. He was already a veteran when he joined De Angelis in 1944 to replace Floreal Ruiz. He had sung before with the orchestras of Juan d’Arienzo, Francisco and Rafael Canaro and Miguel Caló, to name just a few. De Angelis, Dante and Martel were a very successful team. And their duets are still popular today.

The first track of the tanda is ‘Pregonera’, recorded in 1945. Music written by Alfredo De Angelis, and lyrics by José Rótulo. One might say this is tango-light: blending the sweet voices of Dante and Martel, and lyrics that lack the usual tango drama… But this song about a blonde girl selling flowers in the streets of Paris was an instant hit.

In fact, it was so successful that De Angelis recorded more tango duets with Dante & Martel in the same style with lyrics by Rótulo: ‘Remolino’, recorded in 1946 – the second song of the tanda, and ‘Pastora’, recorded in 1948 – the final track of the tanda. Pastora is about a sheperd girl in the mountains, Oh, the joys of youth – tra la la… That is, until she falls from the rocks, and now she will never return…

Inbetween we have the third track of the tanda, and this is one of my guilty pleasures: ‘Adiós Marinero’, recorded in 1946. Music written by Arturo Gallucci and lyrics by Reinaldo Yiso and Félix Lipesker. A tango equally suitable to dance to, or to sing along with a glass of beer: Goodbye Sailor!

And so we have the Alfredo De Angelis tanda of the week, with duets by Carlos Dante & Julio Martel:

Pregonera 1945
Remolino 1946
Adiós Marinero 1946
Pastora 1948

Enjoy!

Please note: We do not own the music in this video. Songs are included for educational purposes only. All songs have been edited/cut to prevent downloading of the complete songs. You can buy them from various providers or stream them on Spotify.

Thanks:
www.tangoarchive.com
www.todotango.com
www.tangosalbardo.blogspot.com
www.tangodecoder.wordpress.com
www.agadu.org
www.tango.info
FB pages about De Angelis and tango music in general, like Archivo Documental Del Tango, Tango Time Machine, Tango y Cultura, José Maria Otero, and many others.

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