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“Así me gusta a mí” by Ángel D’Agostino y su Orquesta Típica with Ángel Vargas in vocals, 1942.

Ángel D’Agostino

Pianist, composer, and leader.

(May 25, 1900 – January 16, 1991)

Angel D'Agostino. Argentine music at Escuela de Tango de Buenos Aires.

His orchestra had magic, and that magic was perceived without the need for grandiloquence or stentorian deeds.

Everything was achieved through its simplicity and its good taste.

That orchestra neither achieved the musical recognition that the orchestras of Aníbal Troilo, Carlos Di Sarli, or Osvaldo Fresedo had nor produced the widespread phenomenon of the Juan D’Arienzo orchestra, but since 1940 up to the present, tango generations never stopped their respect and admiration towards him. Continue reading at www.todotango.com…

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“La vida es una milonga” by Pedro Laurenz y su Orquesta Típica with Martín Podestá in vocals, 1941 (English translation of lyrics).

“La vida es una milonga” by Pedro Laurenz y su Orquesta Típica with Martín Podestá in vocals, 1941 (English translation of lyrics).

Marcelo Solis dancing Argentine Tango at a milonga in Buenos Aires.

Music and lyrics: Fernando Jose Juan Montoni and Rodolfo Sciammarella.

Everyone is waiting
Improving their situation,
All live sighing
Rightly or wrongly.

Everyone regrets
If in the good they are no longer,
No one can stand the storm
If the “contra” is given.

Life is a milonga
And you ought to know how to dance it.
The one who loses his rhythm
Is one too many on the dance floor.

Life is a milonga
And you ought to know how to dance it,
Because it’s sad to be sitting
While the others dance.

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