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Percal · Orquesta Típica Imperial · 2007

Music by Domingo Federico, lyrics by Homero Expósito. 8 recordings in our catalogue, 1943–2007.
1943: 2 · danced 29 times1952: 1 · danced 4 times1961: 1 · danced 0 times1965: 2 · danced 0 times1969: 1 · danced 0 times2007: 1 · danced 0 times
1943’50’60’70’80’90’002007
records madedanced on film, by the record’s year· our catalogue

1943: 2, 29; 1952: 1, 4; 1961: 1, 0; 1965: 2, 0; 1969: 1, 0; 2007: 1, 0

  1. Miguel Caló recorded it in 1943 and 1965. One other orchestra recorded it more than once.

    How we know

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

Credit

Music
Domingo Federico
Lyrics
Homero Expósito

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Every recording

8 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 14 more we know of

1940’50’60’70’80’90’00

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

  1. Aníbal TroiloFrancisco Fiorentino · RCA Victor · Mar 25
    Not danced on film yet
    1943
  2. Miguel CalóEarliest we holdMost dancedAlberto Podestá · Odeon · Feb 25
    29 dances
    1943
  3. Miguel CalóRaúl del Mar, Héctor Gagliardi, Lucho Gatica · Odeon Chile
    Not danced on film yet
    1965
  4. Miguel CalóLucho Gatica · Odeon Colombia
    Not danced on film yet
    1965
  5. Domingo FedericoArmando Moreno · RCA Victor · Aug 25
    4 dances
    1952
  6. Domingo FedericoRuben Maciel · Rosafón (Rosario)
    Not danced on film yet
    1961
  7. Domingo FedericoCarlos Vidal · Embassy
    Not danced on film yet
    1969
  8. Orquesta Típica Imperial
    Not danced on film yet
    2007
  9. Hugo del CarrilNot in our catalogue1943
  10. Tito RiberoNot in our catalogueHugo del Carril · May 131943
  11. Orquesta Típica PorteñaNot in our catalogueRoberto Goyeneche · Dec 131977
  12. Agustín IrustaNot in our catalogue
  13. Hugo del CarrilNot in our catalogue
  14. Roberto GoyenecheNot in our catalogue
  15. Astor PiazzollaNot in our catalogue
  16. Juan Carlos CambónNot in our catalogueMercedes Simone
  17. Manuel SucherNot in our catalogueEnrique Campos
  18. Osvaldo PiroNot in our catalogue
  19. Raúl Miguel GarelloNot in our catalogueRoberto Goyeneche
  20. -unspecified orchestra-Not in our catalogueJorge Valdez

Lyrics

Español

Percal... ¿Te acuerdas del percal? Tenias quince abriles, anhelos de sufrir y amar, de ir al centro, triunfar y olvidar el percal. Percal... Camino del percal, te fuiste de tu casa... Tal vez nos enteramos mal. Solo se que al final te olvidaste el percal. La juventud se fue... Tu casa ya no está... Y en el ayer tirados se han quedado acobardados tu percal y mi pasado. La juventud se fue... Yo ya no espero más... Mejor dejar perdidos los anhelos que no han sido y el vestido de percal. Llorar... ¿Por qué vas a llorar?... ¿Acaso no has vivido, acaso no aprendiste a amar, a sufrir, a esperar, y también a callar? Percal... Son cosas del percal... Saber que estás sufriendo saber que sufrirás aún más y saber que al final no olvidaste el percal. Percal... Tristezas del percal.

English · machine translation

Percale... Do you remember the percale? You were fifteen years old, longing to suffer and love, to go to the center, to triumph and forget the percale. Percale... On the way to the percal, you left home... Maybe we got it wrong. I only know that in the end you forgot the percale. Youth is gone... Your house is gone... And in yesterday's yesterday have been left and in the yesterday Your percale and my past. Youth is gone... I don't wait any longer... Better to leave lost the longings that have not been and the dress of percale. To cry... Why are you going to cry? Have you not lived, have you not learned to love, to suffer, to hope, and also to be silent? Percale... These are the things of the percale... Knowing that you are suffering knowing that you will suffer even more and to know that in the end you didn't forget the percale. Percale... Sadnesses of the percale.

What we don't know yet3 of 5 known

The day it was recorded, the record label.

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  1. PercalMiguel Caló · Alberto Podestá1943

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