![]() He was arrested for the possession of marijuana and was convicted in 1960.ġ6 years of not being able to release the song indeed, that’s some wasted days and wasted nights! Trouble with the Texas law due to marijuana possession. This blues ballad song was considered by many as a “swamp pop” song – and was considered one of Freddy Fender‘s biggest hits.īut what’s interesting about this song is that while Fender wrote it in 1959, it wasn’t until 1975 that he was able to release it under his name. Listen to new Tejano music first with our Spotify playlists and iHeartRadio podcast.Ten seconds into “Wasted Days and Wasted Nights,” and you’ll find yourself swaying and grooving to the song, that’s how much an amazing artist Freddy Fender is. 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, 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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