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Led throughout by Julio De Caro on violin. Each era below is a chapter of the orchestra's lineup. The ones still marked as not documented are waiting to be filled in.
De Caro signed with Victor in 1924 and cut his first sides acoustically. Pedro Laurenz stepped in for Luis Petrucelli, and from 1925 the leader played the horn-violin (Stroh violin) that became his signature.
Pedro Maffia left in 1926 and Pedro Laurenz became first bandoneón, with Armando Blasco alongside him. In 1927 the estribillista Félix Gutiérrez joined the group.
De Caro headed the roster of the new Brunswick label with a settled sextet. In 1931 the orchestra toured Italy and France and recorded the score for "Luces de Buenos Aires", the film starring Carlos Gardel.
After a stint back at Victor in 1934, De Caro moved to Odeón in 1935. Carlos Marcucci settled in as first bandoneón, and from 1939 the orchestra returned to its traditional style after the symphonic experiment.
In 1936 De Caro expanded into the Orquesta Melódica Internacional, adding brass, woodwinds and percussion, with charts by Julio Rosenberg and Alejandro Gutiérrez del Barrio. The same year the reader-poll quintet Los Virtuosos cut four tracks.
In 1943 De Caro returned to Victor with a fuller orchestra, and by the 1949 Odeón sessions the string and bandoneón sections had grown again. Francisco De Caro remained on piano and Carlos Marcucci on lead bandoneón throughout.
De Caro's last orchestras recorded for Pathé in 1952 and 1953. The 1953 lineup, widely seen as the peak of his career, closed with "Derecho viejo" on August 5, 1953.
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