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Swamp Gold

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Swamp Gold
Studio album by
Released1978
GenreTejano
LabelABC
Freddy Fender chronology
Merry Christmas / Feliz Navidad
(1977)
Swamp Gold
(1978)
Tex-Mex
(1979)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Christgau's Record GuideB−[2]

Swamp Gold is an album by Freddy Fender, released in 1978 on ABC Records.[3][4] It peaked at No. 44 on Billboards's Top Country Albums chart.[5] Fender's version of "I'm Leaving It All Up to You" is a Tex-Mex standard.[6]

Track listing

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  1. "The Clock" (Freddie Fender (a.k.a. Baldemar Huerta))
  2. "She's About a Mover" (Doug Sahm )
  3. "When It Rains It Really Pours" (Billy "The Kid" Emerson)
  4. "It's Raining" (Naomi Neville)
  5. "I'm Leaving It All Up to You"
  6. "Tell It Like It Is" (George Davis/Lee Diamond )
  7. "My Tears Are Falling Tonight Love"
  8. "Talk to Me" (Joe Seneca)
  9. "These Arms of Mine" (Otis Redding)
  10. "Breaking Up Is Hard (To Do)" (Neil Sedaka/Howard Greenfield)
  11. "We've Got to Stop and Think It Over"
  12. "Graduation Night (As You Pass Me By)"
  13. "I'm Asking Forgiveness"
  14. "Just a Moment of Your Time" (Freddie Fender (a.k.a. Baldemar Huerta))
  15. "Please Mr. Sandman" (Pat Ballard)

References

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  1. ^ "Swamp Gold Review by Jim Worbois". AllMusic. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
  2. ^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: F". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved February 24, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
  3. ^ Hinojosa, Cassandra (15 Oct 2006). "Museum to honor star in S. Texas hometown". Corpus Christi Caller-Times. p. A1.
  4. ^ Bronson, Fred (Oct 27, 2001). "Chart Beat". Billboard. Vol. 113, no. 43. p. 6.
  5. ^ "Freddy Fender". Billboard. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
  6. ^ Friedland, Ed (Feb 2016). "Don't You Know I Love You? That's Why I'm Leaving It All Up to You on Blueberry Hill". Bass Player. Vol. 27, no. 2. pp. 60, 61.