![]() But destiny includes the events that we encounter on the way to our destination.And, what’s a lot more important than those events, are the people we encounter along the way. ![]() I’m not talking about ‘ destination’ so much since, if you’ve made the decision to receive Jesus, your destination is sealed. I believe the subject of destiny is one of the most important things we could talk about. First, if you’re a regular reader of mine you know I often refer to our ‘destiny’. There’s a very important verse in Proverbs that goes like this, “Without a vision the people perish.” I’ve thought about that verse a lot over the years and I’ve come to a couple of conclusions. *(I came face to face with him at the Houston airport one time!)Īs you know by now I’m a big music lover….and I’m always looking for a good blog title.That’s how I landed on “Wasted Days and Wasted Nights”. Fender died of lung cancer in 2006. I can’t say I was a huge fan of Freddy Fender but he definitely made his mark. His next three releases all reached #1 and the re-release of “Wasted Days and Wasted Nights” became his first million selling single. In 1974 he recorded “Before the Next Teardrop Falls”and it reached #1 on the Billboard Country and Pop charts. By the end of the 60’s, Fender was back in Texas working as a mechanic, and attending a local junior college, while playing music only on the weekends. But soon after, he was derailed when he and a band member were convicted of marijuana possession and ended up spending a stint in the Angola Prison in Louisiana. He first recorded “Wasted Days and Wasted Nights” in 1959 and it was a hit. And, he just thought Freddy sounded good and would, in his opinion, sell better with the ‘gringos’. Baldemar Garza Huerta, better know as Freddy Fender was born in San Benito, Texas in 1938.He took the name, ‘Fender’, from the Fender guitar.
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