![]() ![]() Pretty well the same riff but that’s how it went in this form of music.įollowing some local success Freddy came to the attention of Imperial Records who put out Wasted Days And Wasted Nights. Could be listening to it in some cavernous dance hall, muffled by the crowd. For me the first cuts were the best but in case the Editor has a job finding my selections on Spotify I’ve included videos of both of my selections. Freddy would go on and cut all three of these tracks at pretty well every label he stopped at, with the result that finding the one you actually want isn’t easy. The sides were the self-penned Wasted Days And Wasted Nights (which might just have owed a debt to Earl King’s Lonely Days And Lonely Nights), Crazy Baby (originally from highly obscure swamp man Buck Rogers) and Ivory Joe Hunter’s Since I Met You Baby. He cut four singles for the label of which a couple of sides were bona fide swamp pop and another strongly verging on that sound. When he came out he started playing as a professional musician in the local bars and dance halls.Īfter cutting some Spanish language records Freddy hooked up with producer Wayne Duncan of Duncan Records out of Brownsville, Texas in 1958. At the age of 16 he joined the Marines and stayed in for three years. He also gained a familiarity with the blues from fellow workers. He started playing guitar early, and the music he was brought up with was the tejano and conjunto that we refer to as tex-mex. The reader may already be blinking and thinking “what the heck has a Mexican singer born and brought up in Texas, and known primarily for a number that’s in all those best-of country collections, have to do with swamp pop?” Read on.įreddy Fender was born Baldemar Garza Huerta in June 1937 in San Benito, Texas to a family of migrant workers of Mexican background. Listen to new Tejano music first with our Spotify playlists and iHeartRadio podcast.Tracks are by Freddy Fender unless otherwise stated (in brackets) Trackīaldemar Huerta (later Freddy Fender) promo photo Falcon Records c1958įREDDY FENDER – AND EVEN MORE OF THAT WEIRD AND WONDERFUL SWAMP POP MUSIC (SWAMP POP #5) And readers will see that his daughter Tammy has done just that, conveying in honest prose the tale of a child migrant worker with a passion for music who picked cotton, a three-string guitar, and achieved the great American Dream.įollow Tejano Nation on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), and Instagram, and subscribe to our YouTube channel to keep up with everything Tejano. Tammy states that in writing a frank, realistic book that tells the true story of her father’s life, she is honoring her father’s last wish Freddy wanted an authentic, uncompromising book to be written about his life. The story of Freddy’s ultimate healing and hard-won sobriety is a searing story of faith and redemption. The sequel delves into the darkness of the addictions that ravaged his and his family’s lives, forcing Freddy to the realization that he needed divine intervention. The first book explores Freddy’s struggles as he achieves the great American dream. ![]() Tammy Lorraine Huerta Fender has divided her father’s autobiography into two books. His voice and charismatic personality also made him a nationwide television celebrity in the ‘70s and ‘80s. He was given a Country Music Association award for “Single of the Year” and an Academy of Country Music award for “Most Promising Male Artist” in 1975. Instantaneously, his records crossed over the Billboard country charts into the rock and pop charts, each rising to No. In his youth, in 1956, he was the first to record and sing Spanish rock and roll he was known as the “Mexican Elvis” and called “El Bebop Kid.” In the mid-1970s, Fender would become famous literally overnight as a rock ‘n’ country megastar with his first two monster hits “Before the Next Teardrop Falls” and “Wasted Days and Wasted Nights.” Freddy Fender was known to millions of people across the world as “an ordinary man who had extraordinary God-given talents.”įreddy was a Mexican-American singer who rose from the depths of poverty, breaking free from a life spent picking cotton and rising to a life spent picking guitar. Marine, the shocking arrest and imprisonment of his early 20s, his barrier-breaking singing career as he exploded into and crossed over different music genres, and the alcohol and drug addiction from which he suffered.ĭuring his last 21 years of sobriety, Freddy sought spiritual redemption, practiced forgiveness, and made amends in his daily life he came to lead by example with the aid of his higher power Jesus Christ. “Wasted Days and Wasted Nights” takes the reader on a journey that covers Freddy’s early life of brutal poverty as a child migrant worker, his years as a U.S. ![]()
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