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Whisky

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Whisky

There are many tangos that take place over a glass of something terrible that happened in life, but it’s surprising that nobody wrote this one until Héctor Marcó absolutely nailed it to the wall in 1957.

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Hasta siempre, amor

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Hasta siempre, amor

The Golden Age of the tango entered a late phase in the 1950s. The six-year period of censorship was now behind it, and the hot new recording technology of magnetic tape was driving the major orchestras and singers to revisit their hits of the previous decades…

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