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Pasional · Mario Demarco · 1951

Mario Demarco · tango · Oct 8, 1951
Music by Jorge Caldara, lyrics by Mario Soto. 6 recordings in our catalogue, 1951–1955.

Who recorded it

Every version6

Earliest we hold: Miguel Caló, 1951

  1. Osvaldo PuglieseAlberto Morán19511952
  2. Miguel CalóJuan Carlos Fabri1951
  3. Alfredo De AngelisOscar Larroca1951
  4. Alberto Morán1955
  5. Mario Demarco1951

Recorded on Oct 8, 1951, during the Golden Age (1935–1954).

1951

19351954

Mario Demarco · no periods written yet

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Key facts
Year
1951
Orchestra
Mario Demarco
Recorded
1951-10-08
Contents1The song2Who wrote it3Lyrics4Every version5One recording

The song

MARIO DEMARCO Y SU ORQUESTA TÍPICADemarcoPASIONALTango8 · X · 1951

The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.

5 orchestras recorded it

247 Dances filmed to it

Who wrote it

Music
Jorge Caldara
Words
Mario Soto
Written
not yet cited · help fill it
First played
not yet cited · help fill it

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Lyrics

Español

No sabrás... nunca sabrás lo que es morir mil veces de ansiedad. No podrás... nunca entender lo que es amar y enloquecer. Tus labios que queman... tus besos que embriagan y que torturan mi razón. Sed... que me hace arder y que me enciende el pecho de pasión. Estás clavada en mí... te siento en el latir abrasador de mis sienes. Te adoro cuando estás... y te amo mucho más cuando estás lejos de mí. Así te quiero dulce vida de mi vida. Así te siento... solo mía... siempre mía. Tengo miedo de perderte... de pensar que no he de verte. ¿Por qué esa duda brutal? ¿Por qué me habré de sangrar si en cada beso te siento desmayar? Sin embargo me atormento porque en la sangre te llevo. Y en cada instante... febril y amante quiero tus labios besar. ¿Qué tendrás en tu mirar que cuando a mí tus ojos levantás siento arder en mi interior una voraz llama de amor? Tus manos desatan... caricias que me atan a tus encantos de mujer. Sé que nunca más podré arrancar del pecho este querer. Te quiero siempre así... estás clavada en mí como una daga en la carne. Y ardiente y pasional... temblando de ansiedad quiero en tus brazos morir.

English · machine translation

You won't know... you'll never know what it's like to die a thousand deaths of anxiety. You won't... you will never understand what it is to love and go mad. Your lips that burn... your kisses that intoxicate me and that torture my reason. Thirst... that makes me burn and that sets my chest on fire with passion. You're stuck in me... I feel you in the burning beat of my temples. burning in my temples. I adore you when you are... and I love you more when you are far away from me. when you are far from me. This is how I love you, sweet life of my life. That's how I feel you... only mine... always mine. I'm afraid of losing you... to think that I won't see you. Why this brutal doubt? Why should I bleed if in every kiss I feel you faint? Yet I torment myself because I carry you in my blood. And in every instant... feverish and loving... I want to kiss your lips. What do you have in your look that when you raise your eyes to me I feel burning inside me a voracious flame of love? Your hands unleash... caresses that bind me to your womanly charms. I know that never again I will never again be able to tear this love from my breast. I love you always like this... you're stuck in me like a dagger in the flesh. And fiery and passionate... trembling with anxiety I want to die in your arms.

Every version

Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone

The catalogue holds 6 recordings of this song by 5 orchestras, 1951 to 1955.
1950
Recordings of Pasional · Mario Demarco · 1951 by year, taller the more they are danced · 6 of 6 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 1951.

  1. 1951Miguel CalóRecording
  2. 1951Osvaldo PuglieseRecording
  3. 1951Mario DemarcoRecording
  4. 1951Alfredo De AngelisRecording
  5. 1955Alberto MoránRecording

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

6 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 13 more we know of

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

The leader is Osvaldo Pugliese, with 88% of the 247 filmed dances matched to a version of this song.

45 more dances name this song but not which version, so no share counts them. “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.

  1. Alberto MoránPasional · Alberto Morán · sung · tango · Nov 8, 1955
    23 dances · 9%
    1955
  2. Alfredo De AngelisPasional · Alfredo De Angelis · Oscar Larroca · tango · Nov 3, 1951 · Odeon
    4 dances · 2%
    1951
  3. Miguel CalóEarliest we holdPasional · Miguel Caló · Juan Carlos Fabri · tango · May 23, 1951 · Odeon
    3 dances · 1%
    1951
  4. Mario DemarcoPasional · Mario Demarco · tango · Oct 8, 1951
    No match yet
    1951
  5. Orquesta Típica TokioNot in our catalogueRanko Fujisawa1952
  6. -unspecified guitars-Not in our catalogueRanko Fujisawa1954
  7. Armando CupoNot in our catalogueAlberto Morán · Nov 81955
  8. Francisco TroppoliNot in our catalogueAida Denis · Jun 131956
  9. Nelson PinoNot in our catalogue2012
  10. Rubén JuárezNot in our catalogue
  11. Jorge FalcónNot in our catalogue
  12. Rodolfo LesicaNot in our catalogue
  13. Carlos GarcíaNot in our catalogueTucho Pavón
  14. César ZagnoliNot in our catalogue
  15. Esteban MorgadoNot in our catalogue-unspecified male-
  16. Rubén JuárezNot in our catalogueRubén Juárez
  17. Héctor VarelaNot in our catalogueRodolfo Lesica

One recording

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

MARIO DEMARCO Y SU ORQUESTA TÍPICADemarcoPASIONALTango8 · X · 1951

Mario Demarco

Pasional · Mario Demarco · tango · Oct 8, 1951

No couple filmed dancing this recording yet

Recorded the same day

What else Mario Demarco recorded on Oct 8, 1951.

  1. El arranque · Mario Demarco · tango · Oct 8, 1951
  2. Entrador · Mario Demarco · tango · Oct 8, 1951
  3. La zapada · Mario Demarco · tango · Oct 8, 1951

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What we don't know yet4 of 5 known

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  1. Pasional · Miguel Caló · Juan Carlos Fabri · 1951

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