Carlos Gardel Discography & Collector's Series
Carlos Gardel Discografía y Colecciones

Buying Carlos Gardel 78rpm records.  
A Concise Guide for Gardel Music Collectors.

• Collections:

  • The Collectors & my collection

  • Todo Gardel: Ultimate Gardel discography of 971 titles on this site. 
    This is the most complete Gardel discography on the Internet. Todo Gardel is the most comprehensive collection of Gardel's music during his artistic career from 1912-1935. Unfortunately, it is only sold in Argentina.

  • Horacio Loriente:

    • "Gardel Serie para coleccionistas" (Gardel Collectors Series) produced by Odeon from the 78rpm disc collection by Horacio Loriente in Uruguay. It contains 448 songs.

    • "Gardel-Razzano Serie Acústica"
      Fue publicada en 12 discos por el Palacio de la Música en Uruguay, también comentada por el gran gardeliano uruguayo, Horacio Loriente, una vez se terminó la Serie Para Coleccionistas. Se hizo con el propósito de reintegrar a la consideración pública las grabaciones acústicas que a partir de 1917 se registrasen el Disco Nacional Odeón.  La Serie Acústica no se terminó de publicar. El último volumen publicado, el doce, no tuvo mucha difusión y es muy difícil de conseguir aún en Uruguay, donde se originó la Serie.

• Vida y Obra de Carlos Gardel (Life and Work of Carlos Gardel). The complete works of Carlos Gardel EMI Odeón Argentina, May 6, 2003

• "Carlos Gardel: Su Obra Integral". European "El Bandoneon" Series. 21 CD Volumes - 400 Songs

• Gardel Inédito - Emi Odeón 1999 & 2001 (Remastered, never before published Gardel songs)

• Related documents:

  • Carlos Gardel - his music

  • My selection of Gardel's music with links to Gardel's songs at other sites.

  • Por siempre... Gardel - La discografia de Boris Puga

  • Why did RCA, Victor & EMI Odeon destroy their archives? (in Spanish)

  • Cuantas canciones grabo Gardel? (How many songs did Gardel record?) (in Spanish)
    From the book: "Carlos Gardel, su vida y sus canciones" by Jaime Rico Salazar.

  • Rastreando las primeras grabaciones de Gardel (The search for Gardel's first recordings) (in Spanish)

  • Songs Gardel interpreted in his films

  • You can play more than 100 Gardel's songs in Real Audio and MS format at todotango.com.ar

    • Gardel music sampler

  • In an interesting article, Jorge Finkielman discusses never before published releases of Carlos Gardel (Gardel Inédito) by EMI ODEON in 2000 & 2001 and Gardel discography. For my page dedicated to Gardel inédito, click here. 

  • 1925 Max Glücksmann record ads promoting Carlos Gardel and other Argentine Tango artists

  • Café de los Angelitos - where Carlos Gardel signed his contract with Odeon in 1917

  • In 1917, Carlos Gardel sang "Mi Noche Triste" for the first time on stage at the Teatro Esmeralda. 
    In August 1922, the theater changed its name to Maipo which it retains to present day.

  • Teatro Colón - where Gardel performed many, many times.