Song
Gricel · Lucio Demare · 1957
Lucio DemaretangoDisc JockeyWho recorded it
Every version9Earliest we hold: Francisco Canaro, 1942
Pinned at 1957 · Nuevo 1955–1984 · Lucio Demare recordings indexed 1938–1957
The song
The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.
8 orchestras recorded it
82 Dances filmed to it
Who wrote it
- Music
- Mariano Mores
- Words
- José María Contursi
- Written
- not yet cited · help fill it
- First played
- not yet cited · help fill it
Source: TangoCloud catalogue
Lyrics
Español
No debí pensar jamás en lograr tu corazón y sin embargo te busqué hasta que un día te encontré y con mis besos te aturdí sin importarme que eras buena... Tu ilusión fue de cristal, se rompió cuando partí pues nunca, nunca más volví… ¡Qué amarga fue tu pena! No te olvides de mí, de tu Gricel, me dijiste al besar el Cristo aquel y hoy que vivo enloquecido porque no te olvidé ni te acuerdas de mí... ¡Gricel! ¡Gricel! Me faltó después tu voz y el calor de tu mirar y como un loco te busqué pero ya nunca te encontré y en otros besos me aturdí… ¡Mi vida toda fue un engaño! ¿Qué será, Gricel, de mí? Se cumplió la ley de Dios porque sus culpas ya pagó quien te hizo tanto daño.
English · machine translation
I should never have thought of getting your heart and yet I searched for you until one day I found you and with my kisses I stunned you without caring that you were good... Your illusion was made of glass, it shattered when I left because I never, never came back... How bitter was your sorrow! Don't forget me, of your Gricel, you told me when you kissed that Christ and today I live in madness because I did not forget you nor do you remember me... Gricel! Gricel! Then I missed your voice and the warmth of your gaze and like a madman I searched for you but I never found you and in other kisses I was dazed... My whole life was a deception! What will become of me, Gricel? God's law is fulfilled because he has already paid for his sins who hurt you so much.
Every version
Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone
9 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 12 more we know of
a version people dance tono Dances matched yet: something to listen to
The leader is Aníbal Troilo, 1942, with 79% of the 82 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.
- Aníbal TroiloMost dancedGricelAníbal TroiloFrancisco FiorentinotangoRCA Victor65 dances · 79%1942
- Lucio DemareGricelLucio DemaretangoDisc Jockey10 dances · 12%1957
- Francisco CanaroEarliest we holdGricelFrancisco CanaroEduardo AdriantangoOdeon7 dances · 9%1942
- Mariano MoresGricelMariano MorestangoNo match yet1957
- Miguel CalóGricelMiguel CalóMarga FontanatangoOdeon ColombiaNo match yet1965
- Atilio StamponeGricelAtilio StamponeRoberto GoyenechetangoNo match yet1971
- Alfredo De AngelisGricelAlfredo De AngelisMarcelo BiondinitangoColumbiaNo match yet1985
- Mario MauranoNot in our catalogueLibertad Lamarque · Oct 61942
- Orquesta Típica TokioNot in our catalogueRanko Fujisawa1952
- Lucio DemareNot in our catalogueJul 301968
- Armando MorenoNot in our catalogue
- Adriana VarelaNot in our catalogue
- Hugo MarcelNot in our catalogue
- Libertad LamarqueNot in our catalogue
- Antonio De MayoNot in our catalogue
- Ernesto FrancoNot in our catalogue
- Esteban MorgadoNot in our catalogue
- Jorge ArduhNot in our catalogueJavier Di Ciriaco
- José ColángeloNot in our catalogue
One recording
A dated take, with its sound and the couples dancing it.
Lucio Demare
GricelLucio DemaretangoDisc JockeyCouples filmed dancing this recording · 10 Performances
Danced to it
Music from 1957 · danced on film 2012–2026
2012: 5, 2021: 1, 2023: 2, 2026: 1
Filmed sets
One Couple dancing three or four songs at one Occasion, every song known. What was danced on film, not what a DJ played.
2 of 2 complete sets on film
Aneta Orlik and Pablo Rodriguez
2023 · In upload order: nobody has said the order danced
- 1Milonga de mis amoresPedro Laurenz, 1937
- 2Que nunca me faltePedro Laurenz, 1943
- 3GricelLucio Demare, 1957
- 4TierritaJuan D'Arienzo, 1941
Eugenia Parrilla and Yanick Wyler
El Motivo Tango, 2012 · In upload order: nobody has said the order danced
- 1Novia provincianaCarlos Di Sarli, 1956
- 2GricelLucio Demare, 1957
- 3Estampa de varónJuan D'Arienzo, 1938
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Danced alongside it
Our data: the recordings most often danced in the same filmed Performance as this one (one Couple dancing one to eight songs). Nearer the middle, more Performances.
- 1TierritaJuan D'Arienzo, 1941 · danced together in 2 Performances
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Danced at
- Toronto Tango Festival1 video
- El Motivo Tango1 video
Danced by
- Yanick Wyler4 videos
- Eugenia Parrilla4 videos
- Pablo Rodriguez2 videos
- Gaston Torelli2 videos
- Moira Castellano2 videos
- Martin Vicente1 video
- Agustina Berenstein1 video
- Aneta Orlik1 video
- Ayelen Urrutia1 video
- Jonny Carvajal1 video
- Mara Oviedo1 video
What we don't know yet4 of 5 known
The day it was recorded.
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