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No aflojés

Music by Pedro Maffia, Sebastián Piana, lyrics by Mario Battistella. 4 recordings in our catalogue, 1940–1979.
1940: 1 · danced 15 times1953: 1 · danced 0 times1959: 1 · danced 0 times1979: 1 · danced 0 times
1940’50’60’701979
records madedanced on film, by the record’s year· our catalogue

1940: 1, 15; 1953: 1, 0; 1959: 1, 0; 1979: 1, 0

  1. Ángel D'Agostino recorded it in 1940 and 1953.

    How we know

    Takes in our catalogue by the same orchestra in different years; the canon’s first orchestra is named.

No aflojés was composed by Pedro Maffia and Sebastián Piana.† The lyrics of No aflojés are by Mario Battistella.†

Credit

Music
Pedro Maffia, Sebastián Piana
Lyrics
Mario Battistella

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Every recording

4 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 7 more we know of

1940’50’60’70

Choose A and B on two recordings to hear them one after the other.

  1. Ángel D'AgostinoEarliest we holdMost dancedÁngel Vargas · RCA Victor · Nov 13
    15 dances
    1940
  2. Ángel D'AgostinoRuben Cané · RCA Victor · Feb 2
    Not danced on film yet
    1953
  3. Alfredo De AngelisLalo Martel · Odeon · Nov 20
    Not danced on film yet
    1959
  4. Armando PontierRoberto Goyeneche · Jun 5
    Not danced on film yet
    1979
  5. Pedro MaffiaNot in our catalogueMariano Balcarce1927
  6. Alejandro ScarpinoNot in our catalogueÁngel Vargas · Sep 131954
  7. -unspecified guitars-Not in our catalogueCarlos Bares · Jun 141957
  8. Carlos FigariNot in our catalogueTita Merello · Dec 281964
  9. Osvaldo PuglieseNot in our catalogueAbel Córdoba · Jan 291982
  10. Ariel ArditNot in our catalogue
  11. Pedro MaffiaNot in our catalogue

Danced to it

Music from 1940–1979 · danced on film 2008–2023

20082023
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

2008: 2, 2011: 2, 2016: 3, 2021: 1, 2022: 1, 2023: 1

Carlitos Espinoza & Agustina PiaggioWorld Champion · Tango de Pista 2019Gavito Tango Festival · 2022 · 3:13

Through the decades

  1. The 2000sRicardo Suarez & Florencia Bellozo2008
  2. The 2010sMariano Chicho Frúmboli & Juana Sepulveda2016
  3. The 2020sCarlitos Espinoza & Agustina PiaggioGavito Tango Festival · 2022

Where it is danced

The places our videos show it danced, by performances filmed there.

  1. MarabúSan Nicolás
    1 performance

What we don't know yet3 of 4 known

The year it was written.

Data: recordings, facts and sources

In other catalogues4

tango.info · T0370020759

Single source

TodoTango · tema/662

Single source

MusicBrainz · b46468cf-e174-44f4-b8a1-be3aa8110974source

Single source

ISWC · T-037.002.075-9source

Single source

Composer2

Composed by Pedro Maffia

Single source

Composed by Sebastián Piana

Single source

Lyricist1

Lyrics by Mario Battistella

Single source

Listen

  1. No aflojésÁngel D'Agostino · Ángel Vargas1940
  2. No aflojésÁngel D'Agostino · Rubén Cané1953
  3. No aflojésAlfredo De Angelis · Lalo Martel1959
  4. No aflojésArmando Pontier · Roberto Goyeneche · no clip yet1979

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