I'm a huge fan of tango, my grandfather used to be a tango singer himself in clubs (mostly cuban social clubs) but when he died i got most of his cassettes and plenty of Gardel ones.
Besos y amores, cartas viejas, and el sol del 25 are my favorites, although of course, i like his more famous songs (Caminito, Volver, Mano a Mano, adios muchachos, etc).
There are plenty of youtube videos from his films back in the 20s. He died (along with his main collaborator, Alfredo Le Pera in 1935 in a plane crash, tragically) . They don't make them like they used to. I'd say the tail end of music came at around this time, and to hear Gardel compared to the soulless nonesense churned out by the radio today, well it is a breath of fresh air.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQpmznpR99U
- volver
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jildNDPHPQo
-mano a mano
Besos y amores, cartas viejas, and el sol del 25 are my favorites, although of course, i like his more famous songs (Caminito, Volver, Mano a Mano, adios muchachos, etc).
There are plenty of youtube videos from his films back in the 20s. He died (along with his main collaborator, Alfredo Le Pera in 1935 in a plane crash, tragically) . They don't make them like they used to. I'd say the tail end of music came at around this time, and to hear Gardel compared to the soulless nonesense churned out by the radio today, well it is a breath of fresh air.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQpmznpR99U
- volver
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jildNDPHPQo
-mano a mano