Information sent by Carlos A. Manus – 14/ 08/ 01

Thank you very much for your collaboration

Corrections to the book “Aníbal Troilo, Pichuco. Conversaciones”, by María Ester Gilio.

 

This book contains a noted chronology, elaborated by Julia Constenla, and a prologue by Juan Gelman. It was published by Libros Perfil S.A. Unfortunately, it has some mistakes. Some of them are the following:

 

Ché, bandoneón (Hey, bandoneon)

Page 18: “Around that time, “Mi noche triste” (“My sad night”), a tango by Cátulo’s father, was first played”

The author of that tango was Pascual Contursi, the father of José María.

Noted chronology

Page 77: “An ‘invasion of Mexican singers’ begin. The most successful voices are those of Jorge Negrete, Gregorio Barrios…”

Gregorio Barrios was Spanish.

 

Page 81: “… when Alberto Marino, an Italian boy whose real name was Emilio Orlando, joined them…”

Alberto Marino’s real name was Alberto Marinari.

 

Page 84: “The formula presented by the Labour Party, formed by Juan Domingo Perón and Jazmín Hortensio Quijano succeeded”

The vice-presiden’s name was Juan Hortensio Quijano. “Jazmín” was a nickname given to him by Américo Ghioldi from “La Vanguardia” with the intention of ridiculing him.

 

Page 87: “… Alberto Marino left Pichuco’s orchestra and joins Francisco Rotundo’s orchestra…”

Who joined the orchestra of Rotundo after leaving Pichuco’s was Floreal Ruiz.

 

Page 88: “Eichelbaum’s play ‘Un guapo del 900’ is taken to the big screen, directed by Hugo del Carril.”

 

Page 101: “Dr. Oscar Alende, the Governor of Buenos Aires province, announces a project of agrarian reform, which would be initiated under his direction…”

Actually, this project was never summarized.

 

Page 103: “In 1961, Elba Berón joins Troilo’s orchestra. This was a surprise, because up until that moment, tango orchestras had always had male singers…”

In 1937, Susy del Carril sang in Juan Carlos Cobián’s orchestra. Aída Falcón and Nelly Omar were singers in Canaro’s orchestra way before 1961.  

 

Page 106: “In the album released that year (1963) by Víctor company, was included the song ‘La última curda’ (‘The last drunkenness’) by Troilo and Manzi…”

The author of that tango’s lyrics was Cátulo Castillo.

 

Page 107: “Nelly Omar causes amazement with a version of ‘Madreselva’ (‘Honeysucke’)…”

The woman who sang that tango with Troilo’s orchestra was Nelly Vázquez.