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 ...

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 ...

The original Broadway recording of “Hamilton” by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Vicente Fernández’s enduring ranchera song “El Rey” and Freddy Fender’s breakthrough song “Before the Next Teardrop Falls” have ...

Freddy Fender, 69, 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 Oct. 14 at his home in Corpus ...

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 ...

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”.

Vicente Fernández’s “El Rey,” Freddy Fender’s “Before the Next Teardrop Falls” and Lin-Manuel Miranda’s original cast recording of Broadway’s “Hamilton” will be preserved for posterity, the Library of ...

Sep. 27—The San Benito Cultural Heritage Museum celebrates their new Freddy Fender exhibit, which opened to the public on Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024, in San Benito. (Miguel Roberts/The Brownsville ...

Freddy Fender is at the center of an effort to get more Latino representation in the Country Music Hall of Fame. The "Wasted Days, Wasted Nights" and "Before The Next Teardrop Falls" singer from San ...