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| Released | 1975 | |||
| Studio | SugarHill (Houston, Texas) | |||
| Genre | Tejano, country, Tex-Mex | |||
| Length | 33:15 | |||
| Label | Dot | |||
| Producer | Huey P. Meaux | |||
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Are You Ready for Freddy? is an album by Freddy Fender. It was released in 1975 on Dot Records and is a collaboration between the singer and producer Huey P. Meaux.
Of the 12 songs on the record, two were written by Fender, "Cielito Lindo Is My Lady" and "You Came In The Winter Of My Life". Of the rest, "Lovin' Cajun Style" is a song written by the album's producer. The remainder of the songs on the album are covers, including the novelty song "(How Much Is) That Doggie In The Window?", originally made famous by Patti Page in 1953, the Ray Charles classic "What'd I Say", and the song "I'm Not Through Loving You Yet", which was co-written by legendary country singer Conway Twitty and a number 3 country hit for Twitty the year prior.
allmusic's Eugene Chadbourne gave the disc high praise (4 stars of a possible 5), and said that Fender "can take on elements as disparate as Doris Day and Ray Charles and make a listener forget either of these icons even exist." He compared the playing on the record to "an incredibly hip, funky Tex-Mex band hired to play at a wedding."
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