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"Wasted Days and Wasted Nights" is an American country and pop song recorded by Freddy Fender. It is considered by many to belong to the swamp pop idiom of south Louisiana and southeast Texas that had such a major musical impact on Fender.
In 1959, Fender recorded the blues ballad "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights." [2] His self-penned song was a hit, but he was beset by legal troubles in May 1960 after he and a band member were arrested for possession of marijuana in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. [2]
Before The Next Teardrop Falls is an album by Freddy Fender. [6] [1]His first album, it was released in 1974. The album includes the number-one hits "Before the Next Teardrop Falls" and "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights".
At the same time, his re-recorded version of "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights" was climbing the charts. By 1989, Fender was playing guitar with the Texas Tornados, a band that went on to become a ...
The Best of Freddy Fender is a greatest hits album by Freddy Fender that was released in 1977. [3] ... "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights" (Baldemar Huerta, Wayne M. Duncan)
On this album, Freddy Fender pays homage to the music of his youth, songs he heard growing up in the Río Grande valley. About the recording sessions, the singer told Billboard magazine: "Ten songs are what you call boleros, mainly from the '50s, and there are a couple from the '40s."
Besides doing their own original material, the Quintet revived several classics such as Jimmie Rodgers' "In the Jailhouse Now" and Freddy Fender's "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights" to be found on the albums Son of San Antonio (originally on The Best of The Sir Douglas Quintet, 1966) and Texas Fever (originally on The Return of Doug Saldana, 1971 ...
A showcase of Fender's tenor and Meaux's Tex-Mex musical styling, "Before the Next Teardrop Falls" jump-started his career. (Fender's career had stalled in 1960 after his arrest on drug charges.) [4] In the months and years that followed, Fender recorded several bilingual standards which became major hits, most notably "Secret Love".