Has there ever been a more Houston-sounding music than that of Freddy Fender? Think about it. Songs like "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights" and "Before the Next Teardrop Falls" were pan-Gulf Coastal ...

Tejano swamp-popper Freddy Fender passed away on October 14, 2006. Freddy Fender, the Tejano rocker behind classics like "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights" and "Before the Next Teardrop Falls," passed ...

Apr. 9—Freddy Fender has been inducted into the 2025 Class of the National Recording Registry for his English/Spanish hit "Before the Next Teardrop Falls," which shot to the top of Billboard's pop and ...

2006 - Baldemar Huerta, also known as Freddy Fender, who hit big in 1975 with "Before The Next Teardrop Falls," dies in Corpus Christi, Texas at the age of 69. By Billboard Staff 2006 – Baldemar ...

SAN BENITO, Texas (ValleyCentral) — San Benito native Freddy Fender has been inducted into the National Recording Registry. Fender was inducted for his 1974 hit song, “Before the Next Teardrop Falls”.

I was born in 1984, in the old Dolly Vinsant Memorial Hospital, in San Benito. Me, my mama, and my grandmother lived several miles away from there, outside of Los Fresnos, in a trailer on Old Port ...