A South Texas singer beloved by San Antonians now has a song in the Library of Congress. Freddy Fender's "Before the Next Tear Drop Falls" has been selected to be included in the National Recording ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...