Atilio Stampone

Atilio is a good kid, and I don't want him living in a cabaret;" [3] with that agreement, he divided his time between the orchestra and his studies at the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires, a prestigious public college preparatory school.

Stampone earned a presidential scholarship from Juan Perón in 1950, by which he studied under maestro Carlos Zecchi at the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia, in Rome.

The Stampone-Federico Orchestra recorded for the TK label, notably on compositions such as Criolla linda ("Pretty Country Girl") and Tierrita ("Small Land").

Federico's contract with ratings leader Radio Belgrano in 1955 left Stampone with sole control of the orchestra, which popularized El Marne (Eduardo Arolas), Nueve puntos (Francisco Canaro), Confesión (Enrique Santos Discépolo and Luis César Amadori), Stampone's own Afiches ("Posters," lyrics by Homero Expósito), and numerous other standards;[2] Afiches helped popularize one of the premier tango vocalists, Roberto Goyeneche.

He continued to work with this record company in subsequent decades, and recorded over ten albums for Microfón with his tango revivalist orchestra, some of whose notable members have been: Eduardo Walczak and Tito Besprovan (violins), Abraham Selenson (viola), Enrique Lanoo and José Bragato (cello), Osvaldo Montes (bandoneón), Rubén Ruiz (guitar), Omar Murtagh (double bass), and Eladia Blázquez and Virginia Luque (vocals).

The downtown Buenos Aires tango hall became among the best-known venues of its type, and helped maintain the genre's following during its pre-revival era in the 1960s and '70s, attracting the most important names in local tango at the time, including Troilo, pianist Horacio Salgán, bandoneónist Ubaldo de Lío, dancer Juan Carlos Copes, and many others; one featured performer, Enrique Mario Francini, died on its stage clutching his violin.

Some of his own compositions popularized by the orchestra were Con pan y cebolla ("Bread and Onions"), De Homero a Homero ("From Homer to Homer"), Desencanto ("Heartbreak"), Aguatero ("Water Vendor"), Cadícamo, Ciudadano ("Citizen"), Concertango, El Niño, El Tapir, Fiesta de mi ciudad ("Celebrating My City"), Fiesta y milonga, Impar ("Odd Number"), Mi amigo Cholo, Mocosa ("Spoiled Girl"), Taconeando ("Stomping"), Pequeña ("Girl"), and Vida mía ("My Life"), among others.