Another one of her more popular covered songs was her rendition of Freddy Fender's "Before the Next Teardrop Falls." At that concert, she sang a rendition of French singer Bezu's song "Ali Baba" in Cantonese as children paraded around the stage. She is known for wearing voluminous gowns during her concerts.Ī concert Tsui threw in 1987 in front of a wide Hong Kong audience was one of her more memorable performances, singing scores of her hits and wearing dozens of gowns. She has done a few movies in Hong Kong during her show business career, but is more well-known as a popular singer. Retrieved 10 December 2018.Paula Tsui was born on Januin Wuhan, Hubei, China. ^ "Billboard Hot 100 60th Anniversary Interactive Chart".Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). ^ Archived June 8, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: "Freddy Fender - Estare contigo cuando triste estas (Before the Next Tear drop Falls Espanol) .mp4".^ Tucker, Stephen R., "Freddy Fender", The Encyclopedia of Country Music, Paul Kingsbury, ed.The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. "Before the Next Teardrop Falls - Freddy Fender | Song Info". "Another Place Another Time - Jerry Lee Lewis | Songs, Reviews, Credits". The Spanish-language second verse in the English version, is the first verse of the fully Spanish version. (Fender's career had stalled in 1960 after his arrest on drug charges.) In the months and years that followed, Fender recorded several bilingual standards which became major hits, most notably " Secret Love".įender also has recorded a version fully in Spanish, entitled "Estaré contigo cuando triste estés" (literally "I will be with you when you are sad"). As originally composed, it is in thirty-two bar form (Fender's bilingual recording stretches the piece to 48 bars).Ī showcase of Fender's tenor and Meaux's Tex-Mex musical styling, "Before the Next Teardrop Falls" jump-started his career. The song is about a man's undaunted determination to save his heart for the just-departed object of his deep (but unrequited) love, and sincere hope that should the woman's new relationship not work out, she will remember his love and return to him. Billboard ranked it as the No. 4 song of 1975. Thereafter, the song caught on just as strongly at Top 40 radio stations and it was not long before Fender had a #1 Billboard Hot 100 hit as well. The song ascended to #1 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in March, spending two weeks atop the chart.
However, "Before the Next Teardrop Falls" immediately took off in popularity when released to country radio in January 1975. "I was glad to get it over with and I thought that would be the last of it." "The recording only took a few minutes," Fender once told an interviewer. Fender agreed, performing the song bilingual style-singing the first half of the song in English, then repeating that portion in Spanish. In 1974, record producer Huey P. Meaux approached singer Freddy Fender about overdubbing vocals for an instrumental track. Jerry Lee Lewis recorded a version of it on his 1969 album, Another Place Another Time. It had achieved modest success in versions by various performers the original version by Duane Dee reached #44 on the Billboard country chart in early 1968, and Linda Martell sent her version to #33 in early 1970. The song was written in 1967 and had been recorded more than two dozen times.