Cobra Tango

[@nancysmith2578]

My Lord, that toss at 3:27! Whew!

[@trublucountry]

This video shows the great worth of KZbin. Cultural gems like this would be lost without it. KZbin has enriched our lives in this way. This is magnificent artestry.

[@livsofieandresen2963]

Strikking med kast

[@guyveloz4382]

Is that Norwegian? I loved that beautiful country! Took a mailboat from Bergen to Kirkeness, then back to Bergen again. So much history!

[@guyveloz4382]

@@livsofieandresen2963 Oh I see now -- "Knitting with a cast on" Cute.

[@chetsir]

What a gorgeous handsome couple with such class. I watched a movie, The pride of the Yankees, which they did this dance, and then researched it on KZbin, which is so great to have such historical films of dance sequences of years ago. This couple, I believe grew up together as kids in NYC and this Cobra Tango, they invented themselves. Just a remarkable classy show.

[@teresaestevezalvarez664]

Truly mesmerizing. They are involving you in their dance. Thank you for posting a great tango dancing

[@STORMY0O]

Extremely well said Theresa! I got pulled in as well! Pretty steamy stuff! 💕😉

[@Alyona9017]

Просто фантастика! Пластика, профессионализм, чувственность, и так танцевали почти 100 лет назад!

[@bellaadamowicz8380]

Да, чудесно , kzbin.info/www/bejne/b2eqiGONpdmMjZI&si=T2B0sRXAP4gHsZJT

[@guyveloz4382]

My father, Francisco Veloz Goiticoa de van Bamberlust, or Frank for short, of Veloz and Yolanda, always said "Style is Life"

[@ramonawalter1442]

I worked at the Veloz and Yolanda Studios in Hollywood CA. What a great experience.

[@rosesulla2616]

Superbe dancing and her gown was magnificent!

[@guyveloz4382]

All my mother's gowns were very heavy and elaborate, VERY expensive, some weighting as much as 18 pounds, which could easily wear out a few pairs of white kid gloves in a single evening, and, moreover came equipped with weighted flounces that made a loud bold bang as she lighted back to the stage after the signature uber powerful Veloz and Yolanda "Lift Throw" where she hovers aloft amazingly high , scorning gravity, till reconnecting with the stage or highly polished and seemingly self efulgent hard wood dance floor, the bang from the flounces in perfect harmony with the dance's final note. Of Course such a subtle touch was ONLY meant to be felt by LIVE audiences. You could film the mighty "Lift Throw" till hell froze over and never be alert to such an imaginative phenomenon. Nor could you recreate the byzantine lighting design engineered by my father to enhance the hypnotic mood of various numbers, one or two tiny pencil spots here and there to accentuate Yolanda's great beauty, differently accented color notes that in and of themselves helped these exotic, glamorous numbers tell "a story of intense love and intense stylized love making."

[@brendaconkling5132]

How wonderful for you to have this on film!

[@karenhill3970]

How awesome. .YOUR parents!!!!...never saw til now...thank you...

[@debratharp4027]

I am curious when your mother, Yolanda last danced. I think that I saw this tango danced in a show one time. This dance studio crowd did not really appreciate this style, but it really was good. The dance studio was really used to dancing either american style or international style of dancing at the time. I think I saw this tango dance either in the late 1970's or early 1980's. I can remember that lift and the tremendous throw. There was nothing like it. I wonder if it could have been your parents dancing. I would have seen this show at a dance studio in Baltimore, MD. Please let me know. And how old are you and do you dance? Thanks, Mistykitten1

[@guyveloz4382]

@@debratharp4027 Any relation to Twyla Tharp, Debra? LOL! I grew up in dance. My formal lessons came from my dad and his new wife, Jean, a world famous swing mavin. My own mom was no show biz lifer like Dad, or Jean or our good friend marge Champion, may she rest in peace. My mom was a genovese Italian from very humble origins, Manhattan's Little Italy, never would have danced a step save for my maniac father's pestering, stopped dancing around 1949 when I was born, gladly returned to her Italian roots, cooking genovese gourmet's delights with cooking tools I still have that are now at least 150 years old. Being born in 1949, I am now of course 73 years young, wrote an extraordinary ballet that I am very proud of called "An American Tango" about my folks, the era they bloomed in, the prohibition, Gangster riddled jazz age, etc. Kindly YOU TUBE "Behind the scenes -- An American Tango" It HAS NOT seen its final appearance by any means. Or you can google Guy Veloz to catch an interview I did with a critic who fell head over heels in love with the show, justly so, named Dan Kept. But you MUST check out "An American Tango" I think you'd likely love it. Three separate venues, all sold out, all with amazingly long standing ovations, all receiving dynamite reviews, with, well, but one exception from a nasty critic, probably envious, whom I am certain did not even see the boffo second act and its super boffo conclusion, the No Applause Waltz, which I've no chance to explain just now, but thank you for your super gracious inquiries.

[@debratharp4027]

@@guyveloz4382 Tharp is my husband's last name. I will be 60 years old this year. Dancing kept me young and I miss it much. What style of dancing did you do? for how long and where? I remember Marge and Gower Champion from their movies and their famous smooth moves and long graceful step. Your parents were one of a kind also. Very couple orientated and close. I think that Marge Champion lived to be 100 years old and that is about the oldest dancer. I think she has been seen at the international competitions. Well, I wonder who I saw doing this routine like your parents? What couple? Sincerely, Mistykitten1 Ps. Hope you still can dance.

[@NaveDelAmor]

The most Beautiful tango performance!

[@РозалияХасанова-щ9н]

Браво!

[@donnadees1971]

And she didn’t show her private parts that I’ve seen in more recent tangos. This is a wow

[@mickyhuot8534]

That's some kind of magic going on there. I think you must be born to that.

[@NaveDelAmor]

That is how a silk dancing skirt moves!💖

[@lauraramirez7549]

I had the peasure of meetimg Yolanda in her later years, a very special lady!

[@aDogNamedHandsome]

"The vertical expression of a horizontal idea." Thanks for posting.

[@НинаКаргапольцева-л9д]

Очень красивый танец!смотреть можно только с улыбкой,не отрывая глаз!

[@ditzygypsy]

That spin and dip and 3:05 was AMAZING!

[@dianayanik6302]

Stunning tango. What a pity Valentino never performed this version.

[@STORMY0O]

He did I watched it two days ago. It’s on YT.

[@lightangelmicky]

omg those lifts are incredible !!! LOVE it !!! xxx

[@vixtex]

What did I just watch! What an amazing duo. Pure poetry.

[@carloorganai6676]

Solo Dio poteva consentire uno spettacolo così sublime - qui il tango è veramente il nèttare degli Dèi.

[@STORMY0O]

Very beautiful! No filthy language, no nudity but pure beautiful and very sensual! At the end I felt I danced with them! 💫

[@meaself]

Wow! One of the best I've ever seen.

[@mischezizza2712]

Thank you for posting. I was entranced from beginning to end. Magnificent!

[@WalterNelson]

It is interesting to see how the sensibility of exhibition Tango has changed in our present day. Also, in looking at this and many other exhibition Tangos on KZbin, it's interesting to see the wide variety of performance styles in the older stuff. It seems like the dance vocabulary of Tango has narrowed over time.

My training in the martial arts has taught me an even greater respect and love for the dance..!

[@Garramedia]

Sorry...I was wrong, the tango they dance is "Cuando Llora la Milonga" by Juan de Dios Filiberto and María Luisa Carnelli., written in 1927.

[@NaveDelAmor]

Thank you!

[@norisna]

Garramedia.. Today March 7th, 2023.(seven years after!).I was reading on this page the comments in Spanish asking for the title of the tango they dance. and finally I found the right answer...Yes, it is "Cuando llora la Milonga" a very nice and very well known tango but I can not remember the title..Thank you very much,..Muchas gracias,

[@steveknows62]

There are 2 streets named after them in the San Fernando Valley.

[@ericalbany]

Wonderful- full of flair and style but it doesn't cross over into absurdity. The music is first rate as well.

[@STORMY0O]

It’s called tasteful! Something today’s world is lacking! 💕😃

[@bellaadamowicz8380]

@@STORMY0O Alas , we totally lost it kzbin.info/www/bejne/b2eqiGONpdmMjZI&si=T2B0sRXAP4gHsZJT

[@guyveloz4382]

Typical critics' reactions from famed columnists like Walter Winchell of the New York Mirror, Charlie Dawn of the Chicago Tribune, etc, I still have a record of. Here are a few excerpts: "They seem to dream their steps" "Young lovers full of smouldering dreams, dancing each dance as if it were their last" "Something inexplicable and ever so delicate. It can't last long but will never be forgotten" "We hardboiled critics came to scoff...but remained to pray."

[@colabama]

Guy,How lovely of you to share that,thank you.

[@guyveloz4382]

Dear colabama -- I am glad these things I've lovingly preserved from bygone forgotten , irretrievable days has given you something to feel good about. Thank you for your charming and deeply felt post.

[@guyveloz4382]

Dear colabama, your kind words are much appreciated

[@jeantranberg5730]

converted ? SINdicate! Poser Impostor

[@karenhill3970]

All soo beautiful..her gown exquisite..& He in tails ...totally in control..... .

[@Mattimias]

This is an arrangement of Cuando llora la milonga, music composed by Juan de Dios Filiberto and lyrics written María Luisa Carnelli. (: (For the most often-played version in milongas, look up the De Angelis version!)

[@jerrybecker1628]

Omgggggg! My wife and I dance amer tango We discovered them on ,,,, pride of the yankees😮😮❤🎉

[@PhotosByHamza]

Taking it old school! Badass!!!

[@harrietritter1655]

Magnificent.

[@susannarizzi8070]

Lindissima esta “Cuando llora la milonga”🍀

[@tinarider9945]

Great..magic..

[@mE-zx7pt]

Beautiful video, thank you!

[@littleghostfilms3012]

"Tango can save your life, and it will break your heart" - Ms Heartbreak Tango

[@Yuyu99000]

Woah. Outstanding 😲

[@bernardocarlosblanco]

Este tango es "Cuando llora la milonga". Dejo la versión cantada por Carlos Gardel: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eHyXeaiNqJ6fmbssi=_W73IqiPm0ghYRWS

[@Ирина-р5ь9э]

Какая красота!!!!! Браво!!!!! Спасибо!!!!

[@bellaadamowicz8380]

Чудо ! kzbin.info/www/bejne/b2eqiGONpdmMjZI&si=T2B0sRXAP4gHsZJT Это тоже очень чувственно

[@findingnino]

I love this!

[@Verasalka]

Восхитительно! Вера, 65 лет

[@brockertteambrockert]

Oh thank you for posting! So lovely! Some years back I searched for more videos but could only find the one I had seen in an old movie. I am glad to see there is more information and more video online now about this beautiful dancing couple

[@roychefets6961]

Finally they get billing in a movie instead of doubling for George Raft and others.

[@Garramedia]

The tango they dance is a curious version of "Taconeando" by Maffia & Staffolani

[@silvanomarconi9025]

WRON: "CUANDO LLORA LA MILONGA"!!!!

[@noravega8763]

Nice choreograph of tango

[@drjotais]

Realmente una joyita ! los cambios de ritmo son alucinantes !

[@catiafiasella4836]

spettacolo....

[@ericbouchard2073]

Superbe! 😊

[@Chahlie]

Oh my, what I wouldn't give for that dress- and somewhere to wear it!

[@karenhill3970]

Sooo romantic& LOVELY.......

[@aurelianomedeiros1395]

Coisa linda!

[@steplumpkin5432]

GOOD STUFF!!!!!

[@raymondcwieka7266]

very nice....lets try it..............

[@donnadees1971]

Omg, Velez and 6olanda - originator of dance studios? Wow.

[@СветланаКоломыйченко-ц1ж]

Дух захватывает!!!

[@ВесёлыйМаксим-ю7в]

Как красиво! Это шедевр! Так танцевать могут только люди понимающие все нюансы музыки,танцам любви к партнёру!

[@bellaadamowicz8380]

Да , просто дыхание перехватывает , kzbin.info/www/bejne/b2eqiGONpdmMjZI&si=T2B0sRXAP4gHsZJT Конечно это не на таком уровне , но тоже очень чувственно . Да, были мужчины

[@liliyaKrapiva]

невероятный танец и артисты шикарные

[@MaryGarcia-jp8ki]

My tia has told me this is my family I don't know much about my family history I'm a veloz I would like to learn more about my family history I think he is my great uncle:)

[@Jmp5nb]

Gymnastic “tango”! When will the Cobra strike?

[@ΕλενηΤσαγκαρακη-ρ8η]

Tango for ever

[@torontotango]

Then the airlane spin at 3:00 to 3:06

[@SkipAscari]

fabulous

[@panteranegra4548]

Bom, não sei faltou algo que não consigo distinguir. Toda esa performance me pareceu inútil. Mas foi bonito!

[@josephdonaghy6379]

Unbelievable

[@MaryGarcia-jp8ki]

Is there a way I can find out more about my family history my tia say he is my great uncle:)

[@guyveloz4382]

[e-mail] Contact me.

[@claudiapinho-memorias]

Fantastico

[@nadiagaribaldi7870]

Hermoso,!! Hermoosos!!💕🕺💃

[@norisna]

Busco comentarios en español...Sabes el titulo del tango que estan bailando...Cobra Tango es el estilo creado por estos bailarines ...pero el titulo del tango es de un compositor argentino pero no recuerdo el titulo...la musica la conozco muy bien...pero no recuerdo el titulo...si los sabes por favor dímelo. Gracias..

[@gleicerodrigues103]

Magnifico !!

[@carloorganai6676]

Bello.

[@milaalieva8568]

Высший пилотаж..( Кобра танец..)...🤭🤭🤣

[@HepCatJack]

Arthur Murray named one of his Tango steps in his curriculum the "Cobra" I think in Silver. I wonder if it came from this routine or was named after part of a routine with a similar name.

[@moxieola]

Interesting. Is it similar to anything in this choreo?

[@HepCatJack]

@@moxieola I do not remember what the step looked like given that I stopped at Bronze. :-)

[@MyJoaomaria]

SENSUAL!

[@albertonorte-vb6qd]

Viva el tango ! Alberto

[@torontotango]

nice video ! I like thge dip at 1:52

[@soledadgalaz7019]

Maravilloso...

[@fvrrljr]

under the pampas moon, luego las pompas !!! moon/pompas not luna a play with words moon/hinney Damn i've seen performances but at 3:00-3:07 God Damn !!! Bravissimo

[@mihailcosman4287]

The best thrilling dance tango.

[@drjotais]

Muy bueno !!!

[@АлексейАлешинский-е9ф]

Это мечта❤

[@AvantangoMedia]

The tango is "Cuando llora la milonga" by Juan de Dios Filiberto

[@moxieola]

Thank you, Pablo (with fond memories of the Stanford Tango Weeks).

[@AvantangoMedia]

@@moxieola bi Richard! I have been retracing my steps and upping my Tangologist game lately. And there you were! It would be fun to catch up .

[@AvantangoMedia]

I’m looking for Casimiro Ain

[@moxieola]

Very good. I hope you find something undiscovered about him.

[@AvantangoMedia]

@@moxieola well, meanwhile, what is a good source for the already-discovered?

[@МаргаритаТкач-е8ц]

прелесть.а кто это танцует.хотелось бы знать имена.очень элегантная пара

[@NaveDelAmor]

Yolanda Йоланда й Вилоз

[@Людмила-е5ъ3ж]

Немного сонная кобра!!! Наверное недавно проглотила кролика и теперь больше ориентирована на его переваривание ,чем на танго! Я бы так этот танец и назвала -"Сытая кобра".

[@paolamarconi2947]

Fantastici

[@juanacerdaramos5884]

Que tango tan bien bailado.

[@norisna]

Recuerdas el titulo del tango?creo que es un compositor argentino...Cobra Tango es el estilo de baile de estos bailarines.pero cual es el titulo del tango en cuestión.Si lo sabes. gracias por favor publícalo...

[@kuromitsu1]

Herrlich!

[@belamitubelamitu7689]

F frumos.

[@tanjaneumann4688]

🤓🤓🤓🤓👻👻👻👻👽👽👽👽👽🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡👿🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤💯❤‍🔥

[@msblue1003]

Amazing moves and flair... However this seems to be a gentrification of tango, you do not really get the tango dramatic tension of the perennial duel between man and woman

[@guyveloz4382]

Bizarre anecdote about my dad. On December 7, 1941, not yet having heard the news of the Pearl Harbor attack, He glanced through the stage curtains, and was staggred by what lay before his eyes -- a completely empty house -- Yikes! But the first thing he then did was fly frantically home to Beverly Hills, embraced his first born son's Japanese Nurse/maid very affectionately, stuck a 38 caliber revolver in into her shaking hand, told her to very very, very very careful because he was counting on her stay alive, but then kissed her and told her worrying never helped ANYONE, and then abruptly returned back to Cleveland to join my mom, Yolanda. Around the same time my father, grateful to no end by the exuberant fan mail and tempestuous live reaction V&Y received by African American dance fans early in their career, he felt compelled to finally repay the favor, to whatever degree he could, by telling influential folk over and over again that one of the finest dance teams he had ever laid eyes on were an extravagantly classy African American ballroom dance team named Margo and Norton, I believe, whom never had a freaking chance to penetrate the the world of elite and highly paid dance teams of America because of the terrible wall of resistance faced by all black performers of that era. Dad said that Margo and Norton were stylistically on the same page as Veloz and Yolanda, if not, alas, on the same pay level. He called this a heart-breaking travesty because no one seemed to give a damn about his high praise for the mighty Margo and Norton. And dammit, i agree, and am disgusted that there seems to exist no film of them ANYWHERE. But if anyone out there knows different, please, please make a post here and clue me and others in. it would be miraculous. why, if i get some lucky reaction, I might feel obliged to finally try and publish a detailed book concerning the era of THE BIG DANCE TEAMS...that stretched from the monstrous popularity of Vernon and Irene Castle in the 19 teens all the way into the fifties with the great Marge and Gower Champion, Gower having received his first big break, dancing with his sister, Jean. in a Veloz and Yolanda sponsored ballroom dance competition advertised profusely in the old Los Angeles Examiner seeking out super young and promising talent during the period V&Y were startling audiences at the Coconut Grove, becoming buddies with some serious Hollywood talent. And kindly allow me to advertise my own show about this subject called AN AMERICAN TANGO, into which I poured a lot of sweat and blood, so to say, which has appeared the Lobero and Granada theaters in Santa Barbara and the Broad (pronounce BRODE) stage in L.A., every show a sell out and all receiving huge standing ovations. I think it is a great show but I know my dad would not necessarily have liked it all that much, since I include a lot of darkness to the career of Veloz and yolanda, including their intimate relations with Dutch Schultz, Waxy Gordon and the Jacobson brothers, who first ran the chez paree as fronts for Al Capone, then "inherited", so to speak, the famous supper club in Chicago once Capone was tossed in the jug, as the saying went.

[@simaraft7373]

Fantastic history, thanks!

[@ТатьянаУсольцева-ч1ф]

👍

[@nojusticenopeace9233]

💜💕💋

[@judyvalencia3257]

For a moment there I thought he was going to bash her head on the ground!

[@jeantranberg5730]

go else where fool.. like couples ice skating hope in death spiral..

[@NaveDelAmor]

Кіно Under Pampas Moon 1935

[@elizavetacarlsen7374]

??? ВОСТОРГ !!!!!!!!

[@oscaraguirre6074]

No es tango ese baile, pero para el cine sirviò

[@anac.wdarocha9658]

3:26 😨😨😨

[@SilviaMorales-yg7kv]

Argentino no es

[@РитаБеретарь]

Ну и ну!!!!

[@guytemam1151]

TERRIFIC !!! TO BAD THERE IS AN END !!!

[@ВикторТрихонов]

Если танцует,Фрэд Астор ,это божественно очаровательно.

[@СветланаКоломыйченко-ц1ж]

Это не он.