Song
Percal · Domingo Federico · 1961
Domingo FedericoRubén MacieltangoRosafón (Rosario)Who recorded it
Every version8Earliest we hold: Miguel Caló, 1943
Pinned at 1961 · Nuevo 1955–1984 · Domingo Federico recordings indexed 1944–1969
The song
The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.
4 orchestras recorded it
33 Dances filmed to it
Who wrote it
- Music
- Domingo Federico
- Words
- Homero Expósito
- Written
- not yet cited · help fill it
- First played
- not yet cited · help fill it
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
8 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 88% of the 33 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.
- Aníbal TroiloPercalAníbal TroiloFrancisco FiorentinotangoRCA VictorNo match yet1943
- Orquesta Típica ImperialPercalOrquesta Típica ImperialtangoNo match yet2007
- Hugo del CarrilNot in our catalogue1943
- Tito RiberoNot in our catalogueHugo del Carril · May 131943
- Orquesta Típica PorteñaNot in our catalogueRoberto Goyeneche · Dec 131977
- Agustín IrustaNot in our catalogue
- Hugo del CarrilNot in our catalogue
- Roberto GoyenecheNot in our catalogue
- Astor PiazzollaNot in our catalogue
- Juan Carlos CambónNot in our catalogueMercedes Simone
- Manuel SucherNot in our catalogueEnrique Campos
- Osvaldo PiroNot in our catalogue
- Raúl Miguel GarelloNot in our catalogueRoberto Goyeneche
- -unspecified orchestra-Not in our catalogueJorge Valdez
- -unspecified orchestra-Not in our catalogueHugo del Carril
- -unspecified orchestra-Not in our catalogueJorge Sareli
One recording
A dated take, with its sound and the couples dancing it.
Domingo Federico
PercalDomingo FedericoRuben MacieltangoRosafón (Rosario)No couple filmed dancing this recording yet
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