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• Link from IrelandMy favourite is last teardrop falls and wasted days and wasted nights
• Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn April 5th 1975, Freddy Fender performed "Before the Next Teardrop Falls" on the ABC-TV program 'American Bandstand'...
  At the time the song was at #17 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; and on May 25th, 1975 it would peak at #1* for one week {See 2nd post below}...
  * It spent three straight weeks at #2 before jumping to #1 on the Top 100.
• Donna from Ft. Lauderdale, FlFreddy Fender's life story was presented in Latin Music USA. This was a 4-part documentary series on PBS in 2009. Includes a clip of Freddy on the Dinah Shore show in 1975 when he was a guest. So happens that Dusty Springfield was a guest on that same exact episode! This was after Freddy's prison experience which he speaks candidly about. See PBS catalog or Amazon for the DVD set.
• Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn May 25th, 1975, "Before the Next Teardrop Falls" by Freddy Fender peaked at #1 (for 1 week) and spent 21 weeks on the Top 100...
  And on March 9th, 1975 it reached #1 (for 2 weeks) on Billboard's Hot Country Singles chart...
  It topped one more chart; on March 29th, 1975 it reached #1 (for 1 week) on the Canadian RPM Top Country Track chart...
  R.I.P. Mr. Fender (1937 - 2006).
• Garrett from Phenix City, AlSomeone had said, referring to the Spanish, that Freddie wrote it, and I was wondering if you meant that he wrote the song itself or that he just wrote the Spanish. He did write the Spanish translation of the first verse, but the song itself was written by Ben Peters, who has also written several songs for Charley Pride.
• Wayne from Crockett, TxFreddie has a museum named after him in his hometown of San Benito, Texas. It's worth a look if you are ever in the Valley area of Texas.
• Avron from Norfolk, KsI Just wanted to say that Dianne, I see where your comming from, and I mean no bad feelings; but your trying to make sense of a literal translation. It is actually the first verse as you said, only it's in correct Spanish. You cannot rely on a literal translation dear. Think about it; Freddy wrote it, and he speaks Spanish...it is very correct indeed. Maybe not European Spanish, but it is very much Mexican...Avron
• Briar from Hazard, KyGood song from a good singer. I like that he also sings in Spanish.
• Robert from Topeka, KsFreddy Fender died on October 14, 2006 in Texas from lung cancer.
• Walter from Antwerp, BelgiumAccording to many sites on the "original"-subject, this was first recorded by Duane Dee on the Capitol label in 1967, just before Charley Pride got to it.
• Ray from Laughlin, NvIn 1963 when I was a disc jockey at KTKT in Tucson, the number one song for a couple of weeks was "Sweet Summer Day" by Scotty Wayne. Somebody mentioned that it was by a guy in prison named Freddy Fender. In 2000 I ran into Freddy and told him about it and asked if it was him. He said yes, they had released the record under the name of his agent's little boy, but it went nowhere. He was shocked to find it was #1 in Tucson. I gave him a copy of the hit sheet for his scrapbook. He is in his late 60's now and still puts on a fantastic live show.
• Dianne from Ft. Bening, GaYou may like to know that the Spanish verse is a loose translation of the first verse, not the second. I've always been amazed, though, that no one corrected the Spanish grammar before Fender recorded it. It should be "lo mejor" instead of "lo más bueno," and it should say "cuando triste estãs," not "estás." These are very basic grammar mistakes, kind of like saying "goodest" and "you is." Of course, there are lots of grammar mistakes all over great songs, but in this one it serves no purpose, not for rhyme or rhythm, anyway. No offense intended, just found it curious.
• Gary from Newberg, OrI would like to know the lyrics to this song...both the english and spanish...

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