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Percal · Mario Demarco · 1965

Mario DemarcotangoSolfeando
Music by Domingo Federico, lyrics by Homero Expósito. 9 recordings in our catalogue, 1943–2007.

Who recorded it

Every version9

Earliest we hold: Miguel Caló, 1943

  1. Aníbal TroiloFrancisco Fiorentino1943
  2. Miguel CalóAlberto Podestá · Raúl del Mar …194319651965
  3. Domingo FedericoArmando Moreno · Ruben Maciel …195219611969
  4. Mario Demarco1965
  5. Orquesta Típica Imperial2007

Recorded in 1965, during the Nuevo (1955–1984).

1965

19551984

Mario Demarco · no periods written yet

The song

The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.

5 orchestras recorded it

37 Dances filmed to it

Who wrote it

Music
Domingo Federico
Words
Homero Expósito
Written
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First played
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Source: TangoCloud catalogue

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.

Every version

Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone

The catalogue holds 9 recordings of this song by 5 orchestras, 1943 to 2007.
1940’50’60’70’80’90’00
Recordings of Percal · Mario Demarco · 1965 by year, taller the more they are danced · 9 of 9 recordings carry a year · read Nov 8, 2026

A Song's recorded lineage

We hold dated Recordings by 5 orchestras; the earliest here is Miguel Caló in 1943.

  1. 1943Miguel CalóRecording
  2. 1943Aníbal TroiloRecording
  3. 1952Domingo FedericoRecording
  4. 1965Mario DemarcoRecording
  5. 2007Orquesta Típica ImperialRecording

Gold marks the first we hold, not the first ever. Filled dots have filmed Dances; rings have no Dances matched yet.

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

a version people dance tono Dances matched yet: something to listen to

The leader is Miguel Caló, with 89% of the 37 filmed dances matched to a version of this song.

“No match yet” means no filmed dance is tied to that version so far, not that nobody dances it. Dances whose music we have not identified are left out.

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

  3. Aníbal TroiloPercalAníbal TroiloFrancisco FiorentinotangoRCA Victor
    No match yet
    1943
  4. Mario DemarcoPercalMario DemarcotangoSolfeando
    No match yet
    1965
  5. Orquesta Típica ImperialPercalOrquesta Típica Imperialtango
    No match yet
    2007
  6. Hugo del CarrilNot in our catalogue1943
  7. Tito RiberoNot in our catalogueHugo del Carril · May 131943
  8. Orquesta Típica PorteñaNot in our catalogueRoberto Goyeneche · Dec 131977
  9. Agustín IrustaNot in our catalogue
  10. Hugo del CarrilNot in our catalogue
  11. Roberto GoyenecheNot in our catalogue
  12. Astor PiazzollaNot in our catalogue
  13. Juan Carlos CambónNot in our catalogueMercedes Simone
  14. Manuel SucherNot in our catalogueEnrique Campos
  15. Osvaldo PiroNot in our catalogue
  16. Raúl Miguel GarelloNot in our catalogueRoberto Goyeneche
  17. -unspecified orchestra-Not in our catalogueJorge Valdez
  18. -unspecified orchestra-Not in our catalogueHugo del Carril
  19. -unspecified orchestra-Not in our catalogueJorge Sareli

One recording

A dated take, with its sound and the couples dancing it.

Mario Demarco

PercalMario DemarcotangoSolfeando

No couple filmed dancing this recording yet

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What we don't know yet4 of 5 known

The day it was recorded.

Data: recordings, facts and sources

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  1. PercalMiguel CalóAlberto Podestá

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