Old Enough to Forget

This is one of the albums I saved from a box of rather suspect records my mother in law found in her crawl space. It seems that no one was entirely sure of the origins of the box, but it was an eclectic mess of audible bric-a-brac. Mixed in with a very beat up Supremes double album (that couldn't be salvaged) were a few things that looked like fun. None more so than this Freddy Fender record. I wanted the album because of one song: "Wasted Days & Wasted Nights" but the song here was not the song I remembered. The version here likely dates back to his original 1959 recording. It's hard to tell as the album credits are sketchy - well, non-existent. There's a certain charm to this version. It's rough and spotty in places but the bones of the song are there. It would be his updated version that would garner greater fanfare in 1975, coincidentally (not likely), the same year this collection was released by Pickwick - the king of budget opportunistic hits packag...