{"id":1761,"date":"2025-01-17T19:10:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T00:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/?p=1761"},"modified":"2025-01-17T19:10:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T00:10:57","slug":"charming-mexican-tango-1922","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/2025\/01\/17\/charming-mexican-tango-1922\/","title":{"rendered":"Charming Mexican Tango – 1922"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“My Old Love – Tango”
\nMax Dolin’s Orchestra
\n(Victor 19076-B)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0November 13, 1922<\/p>\n

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Here is a recording that I stumbled across online while researching a different record.\u00a0 I thought the song was very charming – and to my pleasant surprise, I was able to find a copy in my collection.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, my copy has some condition issues that proved to be a bit time-consuming for my software to clean up.\u00a0 But that’s the way it goes with vintage records – you might or might not eventually come across another copy in better condition.\u00a0 I was happy to discover I even had a copy at all, despite its condition.<\/p>\n

“My Old Love” (“Mi viejo Amor<\/em>“) was written by the prominent Mexican composer Alfonso Esparza Oteo.\u00a0 You can read more about him at this link (in Spanish)<\/a> or in English at this link via Google Translate<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Born in what is now Odesa, Ukraine, Max Dolin<\/a> was an accomplished violinist and prominent conductor in San Francisco.\u00a0 He is best remembered as the West Coast music director for the NBC radio network.<\/p>\n

Victor’s recording ledgers indicate that the conductor for this New York City recording session was their in-house conductor, Nathaniel Shilkret<\/a>, not Max Dolin.\u00a0 There is no mention of whether Dolin himself was present or whether the musicians were members of Dolin’s orchestra or in-house studio musicians.\u00a0 At the time, it was not uncommon for in-house staff to fill in for conductors or even entire bands who, for various reasons, might not have been able to attend a recording session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  “My Old Love – Tango” Max Dolin’s Orchestra (Victor 19076-B)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0November 13, 1922   Here is a recording that I stumbled across online while … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1762,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":71,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,19,21,20],"class_list":["post-1761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-1920s","tag-max-dolin","tag-mexican-composers","tag-tango"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1761"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1768,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761\/revisions\/1768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}