WASTED DAYS AND WASTED NIGHTS

Created on 05/05/2006
Latest update on 26/10/2023

Artist: Freddy Fender
Author: Freddy Fender/Wayne Duncan
Label: Duncan
Year: 1959

Real name: Baldemar Huerta. Originally released in Spanish (as Dias Y Noches Perdidas). Duncan is a small San Antonio label. One year later also on Talent Scout and Imperial.

Covers:

1961:

Rockin' Sidney

1961:

Sonny West

1963:

Rockin' Sidney [as Wasted Days And Wasted Nites]

1971:

Sir Douglas Quintet [dedicated from Doug to Freddy who'd been busted for narcotics and had been spending some wasted years in prison (Angola)]

1975:

Freddy Fender [new recording follow-up of his comeback single Before The Next Teardrop Falls, dedicated to Doug Sahm; n°1 C&W]

1975:

Mireille Mathieu [as Inutile de nous revoir]

1976:

Cosmic Brothers [Doug & Freddy live at Armadillo Headquarters in Austin, TX, recorded and released by Huey Meaux, partner in crime in resurfacing Freddy Fender and go-between in uniting him with Doug; The Cosmic Brothers were in a way the nucleus of The Texas Tornados]

1998:

Texas Tornados [vocal: Freddy Fender of course]

2000:

Billy Bacon & The Forbidden Pigs

2011:

LeAnn Rimes

2016:

Bo-Keys

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