Your Tango Music Collection - Part 5 - by Donald Cooper

Your Tango Music Collection - Part 5

The orchestra featured in this posting is Enrique Rodriguez y su Orquesta. On the album covers of these CDs you may notice that this orchestra is not identified as “su orquesta tipica”, but instead as “su orquesta”. According to Ricardo Blaya at Todo Tango, the Enrique Rodriguez Orchestra: “. . . was christened “an orchestra of all rhythms” which also played foxtrots, rancheras, pasodobles, polkas for the dancing public which didn’t just tango. His style was a breakthrough for the groups of the period, because he played all kinds of genres, introduced miscellaneous instruments and his repertoire, always assorted, only included merry or romantic tunes.” In other words this was an ‘orquesta caracteristica’ or featured orchestra. “But when he played tango, you heard the brilliant sound of a well-rehearsed orchestra, with simple nice arrangements and also with very good vocalists.” However, for our purposes, we are interested in their recordings of tangos, vals and milongas.

CD

We are fortunate in that there are a number of CDs of Enrique Rodriguez’ music currently available. Here are three albums of their happy music with the singing of Armando Moreno, their principal singer from 1940 to 1945:

Enrique Rodriguez - Tangos Con Armando Moreno

EMI Reliquias 529105

20 tangos, all sung by Armando Moreno, including:

En La Buena Y En La Mala - 1940

Llorar Por Una Mujer – 1941

Suerte Loca - 1941

Tu, El cielo y tu – 1944

A Media Luz - 1940

La Vi Llegar - 1944

Enrique Rodriguez - Tangos Con Armando Moreno Vol. 2

EMI Reliquias 541707

20 tangos, all sung by Armando Moreno, including:

Marinero - 1943

Yo No Se Por Que Razon - 1942

No Te Quiero Mas - 1940

Que Lo Sepa El Mundo Entero - 1943

Como Se Pianta La Vida - 1940

Enrique Rodriguez - Tango Collection - 20 Grandes Exitos

Lantower RGS-1737

This album offers a wider introduction to their music. It has 19 tangos and 1 vals, several tunes with the singer Roberto Flores (1936-1939), several instrumentals and the remainder with Armando Moreno.

Digital Music

TangoTunes.com

This site has over 100 tunes of Enrique Rodriguez with Armando Moreno and all of the same tunes as are on the CDs can be found here.

Lapl.freegalmusic.com

The two CDs above are not available in digital form on this site. However, the following albums contain most of the tunes in the CDs above, and many others.

Enrique Rodriguez Inolvidables, Vol. 3

RGS Music / From Argentina Records

Check out here: Danza Maligna 1940 T

The History of Tango / Enrique Rodriguez - Recordings 1939-1946
Enrique Rodriguez & His Orchestra

Black Round Records (This appears to be a reissue of El Bandoneon release EBCD-101 Enrique Rodríguez Y Su Orquesta Típica 1939-1946)

Check out here: El Encopao 1942 T, and Con tu mirar 1941 V