Summary – Online Discography
Years ago, to track the recording year of a tango recorded by an orchestra, we had to rely on the printed copies of discographies written by Nicolas Lefcovich. Many of us would still remember the time of paying “not a small” amount of money to buy those copies in Buenos Aires, and the big copies of Francisco Canaro and Roberto Firpo. Nowadays, thank to many people’s effort, everything can be found online, and discography is no exception. Below is a directory of orchestras’ and singers’ discographies. It will also be useful to those who are new in the field of tango music research.
Orchestras:
Rodolfo Biagi
http://www.todotango.com/english/biblioteca/discografias/grabaciones_autor.asp?id=104&c=Rodolfo%20Biagi
Francisco Canaro
http://sites.google.com/site/franciscocanarodiscography/
http://www.tangodj.org/canaro.html
Angel D’Agostino
http://www.todotango.com/english/biblioteca/discografias/grabaciones_autor.asp?id=12&c=%C1ngel%20DAgostino
Juan D’Arienzo
http://users.telenet.be/tangoteca/darienzo/index.html
Alfredo De Angelis
http://www.todotango.com/english/biblioteca/discografias/grabaciones_autor.asp?id=14&c=Orquesta%20Alfredo%20De%20Angelis
Julio De Caro
http://www.tangodj.org/decaro.html
Lucio Demare
http://www.todotango.com/english/biblioteca/discografias/grabaciones_autor.asp?id=127&c=Lucio%20Demare
Carlos Di Sarli
http://www.todotango.com/english/biblioteca/discografias/grabaciones_autor.asp?id=17&c=Carlos%20Di%20Sarli
Edgardo Donato
http://www.tangodj.org/donato.html
Roberto Firpo
http://www.tangodj.org/firpo.html
Osvaldo Fresedo
http://www.tangodj.org/fresedo.html
Alfredo Gobbi
http://www.todotango.com/english/biblioteca/discografias/grabaciones_autor.asp?id=21&c=Alfredo%20Gobbi
Pedro Laurenz
http://www.todotango.com/english/biblioteca/discografias/grabaciones_autor.asp?id=22&c=Pedro%20Laurenz
Francisco Lomuto
http://www.tangodj.org/lomuto.html
Osmar Maderna
http://www.todotango.com/english/biblioteca/discografias/grabaciones_autor.asp?id=23&c=Osmar%20Maderna
Ricardo Malerba
http://www.todotango.com/english/biblioteca/discografias/grabaciones_autor.asp?id=741&c=Orquesta%20Ricardo%20Malerba
Astor Piazzolla
http://www.piazzolla.org/works2/viewlist.html
http://homepage2.nifty.com/mitsu-sa/discografia_p45.htm
Osvaldo Pugliese
http://www.todotango.com/english/biblioteca/discografias/grabaciones_autor.asp?id=28&c=Orquesta%20Osvaldo%20Pugliese
Enrique Rodriguez
http://www.tangodj.org/rodriguez.html
Ricardo Tanturi
http://www.todotango.com/english/biblioteca/discografias/grabaciones_autor.asp?id=31&c=Orquesta%20Ricardo%20Tanturi
Anibal Troilo
http://www.troilo.com.ar/espanol.htm
http://www.todotango.com/english/biblioteca/discografias/grabaciones_autor.asp?id=32&c=An%EDbal%20Troilo
http://anibaltroilopichuco.blogspot.com
Orquesta Tipica Victor
http://www.tangodj.org/otv.html
Singers:
Roberto Chanel
http://www.todotango.com/english/biblioteca/discografias/grabaciones_autor.asp?id=702&c=Roberto%20Chanel
Charlo
http://ar.groups.yahoo.com/group/perfilesdeltango/message/7345
Alberto Echague (only with Juan D’Arienzo)
http://www.todotango.com/english/biblioteca/discografias/jdarienzo1.html
Ada Falcon
http://www.elblogdenits.com.ar/foro/index.php?topic=35840.0
Ernesto Fama
http://users.telenet.be/tangoteca/ernesto_fama/index.html
Roberto Rufino
http://www.todotango.com/english/biblioteca/discografias/grabaciones_autor.asp?id=172&c=Roberto%20Rufino
Angel Vargas
http://www.todotango.com/english/biblioteca/discografias/grabaciones_autor.asp?id=175&c=%C1ngel%20Vargas
April 13th, 2010 at 6:28 pm
I have something for you:
http://eng.tango.info/discographies
April 13th, 2010 at 6:35 pm
Thank you.
February 3rd, 2011 at 2:46 pm
Hi again. At todotango, the Demare discography is all wrong, I know becouse I’m working on Demare now, and that discography has the disc number repeated instead of the Matrisse nbr.
Whoever may need a copy of a corrected discography, just ask.
tangovirtud[at]gmail.com
Then, I found this other very interesting site:
http://www.geocities.jp/arturomkwd/
It says tango data, and then, alphabetically ordere a lot of songs with all the discography info. Not everything is complete, but it’s quite useful.
February 14th, 2011 at 8:55 pm
Dear Sergio,
Thank you for your links. I didn’t work on Demare discorgraphy. I heard some people saying that his discorgraphy on todotango is incomplete.
I thought it’s normal to repeat disc number as usually a 78-rpm has 2 sides, so the disc number could be XXXX-A and XXXX-B. While matrix number attached to a particular recording/song, so a matrix number shouldn’t repeat. No?
Royce
March 1st, 2011 at 6:02 pm
Right. Now I found there’s a way to see it as a whole sheet instead of song by song, and then matrix nmber is displayed. So, I must be fair, it is correctly shown, but only if displayed as a sheet. If anybody goes in to look song by song, then matrix number is seen with the disc number.
Cheers!
June 12th, 2013 at 9:54 am
onesteptanguero said: “I have something for you: http://eng.tango.info/discographies”
Note that those are not what most people call discographies. They are just machine-generated collations of release info, propagating whatever errors are present in the release metadata.