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Freddy Fender is ‘El Bebop Kid’

Has there ever been a more Houston-sounding music than that of Freddy Fender? Think about it. Songs like “Wasted Days and Wasted Nights” and “Before the Next Teardrop Falls” were pan-Gulf Coastal music. Here you had a Mexican-American guy from the Valley, singing heavily Fats Domino/New Orleans-­influenced country/R&B in both…

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