The tango “Dandy” came out of a successful trio that toured Europe in the 1920s, with Lucio Demare on piano, accompanying the two singers Agustín Irusta and Roberto Fugazot.
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Homero Manzi’s special touch turned the conventional themes of tango lyrics into a certain new magic. His gift was, in a sense, for rewriting, or recasting earlier tangos into new images, and in this haunted tango he draws on “Griseta” as well as “Los mareados” and a hundred other booze-laden songs as his sources.
“Malena” is the mythical portrait of a tango singer, swirling with legends and teeming with shadows. Were these evocative lines from the great Homero Manzi meant to immortalize a real woman who bared her soul in the spotlight on stage? Or do they weave a new myth out of the tango’s haunting ghosts?
This 1942 hit from Lucio Demare and Homero Manzi (the duo behind “Malena”) evokes the ports of Buenos Aires, and Dock Sud in particular, where the Riachuelo flows down banks that in former days were lined with the city’s slaughterhouses.