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. Meaux approached Fender about overdubbing vocals for an instrumental track. Jerry Lee Lewis recorded a version of the song on his 1969 album, Another Place Another Time. The song 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.
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