Before the Next Teardrop Falls song question?!
Question: There is some foreign lamguage in the middle of this song, wat language is that?
Answers: There is some foreign lamguage in the middle of this song, wat language is that?
The language you hear is Mexican Spanish. Baldemar Huerta, known to most as Freddy Fender is best known for recording the song that was written by Vivian Keith and Ben Peters.
The song was written in the late 1960s and had been recorded more than two dozen times. At best, the song had achieved modest success by other performers.
In 1974, Southern Louisiana swam pop record producer Huey Meaux approached Fender about overdubbing vocals for an instrumental track. Fender agreed, performing the song bi-lingual style — singing the first verse in English, then repeating the verse in Spanish.
"The recording only took a few minutes," Fender once told an interviewer. "I was glad to get it over with and I thought that would be the last of it."
However, "Before the Next Teardrop Falls" immediately took off in popularity when released to country radio in January 1975. The song ascended to No. 1 on the Billboard magazine Hot Country Singles chart in March, spending two weeks atop the chart. Thereafter, the song caught on just as strongly at Top 40 radio stations, and it wasn't long before Fender had a No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 hit as well.
Freddy Fender died on October 14, 2006 of lung cancer.
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Freddy Fender's real name is Baldemar Huerta, and he is from Mexico. He just sings the song lyrics on that lyrics bridge in his native Spanish tongue.