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 ...

These country hits from the 1970s are still popular among fans of classic country music, and they all belong on your next ...

This No. 1 hit for Freddy Fender is a unique entry on the Top 100 Country Songs list, as it's the only one that's bilingual. Fender was far from the first to record it, but audiences loved the way he ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the many old sayings we've all heard from our childhoods "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. And I suppose that's as true today as back then and that old saying certainly seemed to ...

SAN BENITO, Texas – Freddy Fender, the “Bebop Kid” of the Texas-Mexico border who later turned his twangy tenor into the smash country ballad “Before the Next Teardrop Falls,” died Saturday. He was 69 ...

Music Club's sublicensing of Huey Meaux's Crazy Cajun catalog from the UK's Demon/Edsel Records continues with these two releases, which join Sonny Landreth's Prodigal Son and Ronnie Milsap's Wish You ...

Freddy Fender, a Grammy-winning musician who was one of the first Mexican American artists to successfully cross over to the mainstream pop market and who helped introduce Tex-Mex music to a wider ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – Freddy Fender, the "Bebop Kid" of the Texas-Mexico border who later turned his twangy tenor into the smash country ballad "Before the Next Teardrop Falls," died Saturday. He ...