| "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights" | ||||
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| Single by Freddy Fender | ||||
| from the album Before the Next Teardrop Falls | ||||
| B-side | "I Love My Rancho Grande" | |||
| Released | June 1975 | |||
| Recorded | 1959 (original) 1975 (hit version) | |||
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| Length | 2:52 | |||
| Label | ABC-Dot Records 17558 | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Wayne Duncan, Freddy Fender and Huey Meaux | |||
| Producer(s) | Huey Meaux | |||
| Freddy Fender singles chronology | ||||
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"Wasted Days and Wasted Nights" is an American country and pop song recorded by Freddy Fender. It is considered by many to belong to the swamp pop idiom of south Louisiana and southeast Texas that had such a major musical impact on Fender.[2]
- ^ Breihan, Tom (July 16, 2019). "The Number Ones: Freddy Fender's "Before The Next Teardrop Falls"". Stereogum. Retrieved June 23, 2023.
He crossed over again with "Wasted Days And Wasted Nights," a new version of the rockabilly song he recorded in 1960.
- ^ Shane K. Bernard, Swamp Pop: Cajun and Creole Rhythm and Blues (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1996), pp. 64, 65, 102, 105.