Wasted Days and Wasted Nights

"Wasted Days and Wasted Nights"
Single by Freddy Fender
from the album Before the Next Teardrop Falls
B-side"I Love My Rancho Grande"
ReleasedJune 1975
Recorded1959 (original)
1975 (hit version)
Genre
Length2:52
LabelABC-Dot Records 17558
Songwriter(s)Wayne Duncan, Freddy Fender
Producer(s)Huey Meaux
Freddy Fender singles chronology
"Before the Next Teardrop Falls"
(1975)
"Wasted Days and Wasted Nights"
(1975)
"Since I Met You Baby"
(1975)

"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.