This Thursday (September 22) Great Values of Tango reaches Avenida Corrientes. On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of their debut (!?seven zero already ?!), with production of Diego Romay (son of Alessandro) and the guide of Silvio Soldano (who else), tangueros will party all the time ten performances at the Astral Theater.
of how what It started out as a radio cycle conducted by Alejando Romay, then moving on to television to become part of our popular culture, that’s what this milonga is about.
Those born around the 60s – to whom we don’t have to explain anything if we say it “A cut, a ravine and we’ll be back right away!” or we remind him of “Héctor Pérez Pícaro, the clover of good luck!”– You know what we’re talking about. For the little ones, this is the story …
the father of the creature
A young Argentine, born in the province of Tucumán, just 24 years old with his unmistakable voice as an announcer, one day in 1951 announces the first radio broadcast of Great values of tango (GVT). The young man was called Alejandro Romay and without imagining it a legend was born in the history of Argentine popular culture.
At the end of 1963, Alejandro Romay took charge of Canale 9and what started as a success has moved on to television and from there to the living rooms and kitchens of thousands of Argentine homes.
Historical names from the history of our show such as Hugo del Carril, Juan Carlos Thorry, Tito Lusiardo he took over the direction of television until in 1972 Romay decided that a charismatic announcer and conductor named Silvio Soldán took care of him GVT. And it was until the end, in 1992.
The child’s father’s son
Today Diego Romay counts. “To explain what you will see in a few days – he says – you have to go back to a lunch that my father organized in 1997 at his home. He invites the whole Mores family, with Mariano at the head, of course. And there, between anecdotes and complicity, Mariano tells my old man:
–Romay, we have to go back to Great Values of Tango! We must recover this success!
My old man says “yes, sure”, but to say it. And it happened “, Diego recalls.” And nothing, it was a long time until one day Julio Gallo called me, the owner of the Astral, that Martín Bossi was leaving, he told me …
-What can we do, Diego?
“And it was great: 24 hours later I put my head on the pillow and it’s like I had a flashback and recovered that image of the dialogue between my old man and Mariano Mores”, He says about the eureka moment“And I said to myself: you have to take Great values in Corrientes street.
Now go back into the time tunnel and scale the phenomenon: “The program spanned the history of Argentine television“, underlines Romay.” We must think that it started on Radio Libertad, it landed on television in the 60s, it did the 70s, 80s and would only say goodbye at the beginning of the 90s.
“And when TV transformed and became more competitive, especially since the 1980s, Great values started looking for ways to update, hence the usual intersections that we began to make with other genres: folklore, melodic and rock (a very young Fito Páez) …
Cesare Litvak
Source: Clarin
