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Dos fracasos

Music by Miguel Caló, lyrics by Homero Expósito. 3 recordings in our catalogue, 1941–2014.

Who recorded it

Every version3

Earliest we hold: Miguel Caló, 1941

  1. Miguel CalóAlberto Podestá · Luis Correa19411963
  2. Orquesta Típica Sans SouciEl Chino Laborde2014

Versions of Dos fracasos recorded 1941–2014

Dos fracasos was composed by Miguel Caló.

Dos fracasos is a tango.

The lyrics of Dos fracasos are by Homero Expósito.

The song

The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.

2 orchestras recorded it

126 Dances filmed to it

Who wrote it

Music
Miguel Caló
Words
Homero Expósito
Written
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First played
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Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Lyrics

Español

Me sorprendí cuando te hallé como un dolor, sin palabras, la voz mareada de copas se me anudó en la garganta. Quise gritar, pero pa' qué si al fin yo estoy igual. Sueños que gastamos conversando cuando nos hablábamos de amor. Horas que ya están en el olvido, sensación de haber perdido la esperanza en el adiós. Rabia de sabernos tan cambiados, miedo de gritar esta verdad. Somos dos fracasos que se amaron y partieron y olvidaron y hoy se miran asombrados de morder la realidad. Vuelve otra vez a tu rincón que yo me voy con los años. Ya llueve plata en mis sienes y hay un dolor en tus manos. Pa' qué llorar todo el ayer si ya no puede ser.

English · machine translation

I was surprised when I found you like a pain, without words, my voice dizzy with drinks knotted in my throat. I wanted to scream, but what's the use if at last I'm the same. Dreams that we spend talking when we talked about love. Hours that are already forgotten, feeling of having lost the hope of goodbye. Anger of knowing we are so changed, fear of shouting this truth. We are two failures who loved each other and left and forgot and today they look at each other in amazement of biting reality. Come back again to your corner I'm leaving with the years. It's already raining silver on my temples and there is a pain in your hands. Why cry all of yesterday if it can't be anymore.

Every version

Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone

The catalogue holds 3 recordings of this song by 2 orchestras, 1941 to 2014.
1940’50’60’70’80’90’00’10
Recordings of Dos fracasos by year, taller the more they are danced · 3 of 3 recordings carry a year · read Nov 2, 2026

3 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube

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

The leader is Miguel Caló, with 91% of the 126 filmed dances matched to a version of this song.

3 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. Orquesta Típica Sans SouciDos fracasosOrquesta Típica Sans SouciEl Chino Labordetango
    11 dances · 9%
    2014
All recordings of Dos fracasos

One recording

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

Miguel Caló

Dos fracasosMiguel CalóAlberto PodestátangoOdeon

Couples filmed dancing this recording · 111 Performances

Danced to it

Music from 1941–2014 · danced on film 2006–2026

20062026
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

2006: 1, 2007: 1, 2010: 3, 2011: 8, 2012: 7, 2013: 10, 2014: 10, 2015: 8, 2016: 7, 2017: 7, 2018: 3, 2019: 3, 2022: 2, 2023: 1, 2024: 4, 2026: 4

Where it is danced

The places our videos show it danced, by performances filmed there.

  1. Salón La NacionalMonserrat
    4 performances
  2. Sunderland ClubVilla Urquiza
    2 performances
  3. Club Social y Deportivo Villa MalcolmVilla Crespo
    1 performance
  4. Círculo TrovadorVicente López
    1 performance
  5. Salón CanningPalermo
    1 performance
  6. Salón El Pial (La Baldosa)Flores
    1 performance

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.

3 of 12 complete sets on film

  1. Laila Oliver and Leandro Oliver

    2016 · In the order danced: the video titles number them

    1. 1Dos fracasosMiguel Caló, 1941
    2. 2ChiquéDonato Racciatti, 1960
    3. 3Viejo portónRodolfo Biagi, 1938
    4. 4Milonga queridaJuan D'Arienzo, 1938
    Watch it on TangoTube
  2. Mimi Hirsch and Nikita Gerdt

    EMBRACE BERLIN, 2014 · In upload order: nobody has said the order danced

    1. 1Ella es asíEdgardo Donato, 1938
    2. 2La brujaJuan D'Arienzo, 1959
    3. 3Si tú quisierasMiguel Caló, 1943
    4. 4Dos fracasosMiguel Caló, 1941
    Watch it on TangoTube
  3. Gabriel Angio and Natalia Games

    2024 · In upload order: nobody has said the order danced

    1. 1Dos fracasosMiguel Caló, 1941
    2. 2El aeroplanoJuan D'Arienzo, 1938
    3. 3Flor de tangoOsvaldo Pugliese, 1945
    4. 4Café DomínguezÁngel D'Agostino, 1955
    Watch it on TangoTube

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