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Ted Daffan:
Born To Lose |
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A company representative from DECCA, whilst not over impressed with Daffan and his group, did feel that there was some potential in a few of the songs that Daffan had written, one of those songs was "Truck Drivers Blues".Decca had Cliff Bruner record the number and it soon became a hit, latching onto the success of the song, both COLUMBIA, and RCA-VICTOR released cover versions. Art Satherly, who recalled Daffan from a previous encounter flew down to Hosuton and signed Daffan to a recording contract with the COLUMBIA subsidary OKEH. The first song Daffan recorded was "Worried Mind", another self-penned composition, which zoomed up the charts when released, only denied the coveted number one position by Bob Wills "San Antonio Rose". Daffan continued to churn out hit songs throughout the early forties, virtually every session he recorded was comprised of self-penned material. Art Satherly, was a little uneasy at this, it wasnt company policy to take so many songs from one writer, so he suggested that Daffan adopt a nom de plume for the purposes of disguising hi sidentity, thus Frankie Brown was "born" (Frankie, a name plucked out of thin air, and Brown as it was his mothers maiden name).This "new songwriter", the hitherto unknown Mr Brown, showed a good deal of promise, one of his early compostions was "Born To Lose", which did rather well!. When Daffan received a Gold Disc for selling over a million copies of "Born To Lose", Art Satherly decided it didnt matter anymore how many songs Daffan wrote and recorded, and Frankie Brown was destined to be a little more than a footnote in the history of Country music. |
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Track Listing
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I'm Sorry I Said Goodbye
No Letter Today
Crying The Blues Again
Blue Steel Blues
Car Hop's Blues
Down Hilo Way
Born To Lose
Are You Satisfied Now
Because
You Better Change Your Ways
Baby You Can't Get Me Down
Worried Mind
Lonesome Highway
Those Blue Eyes Don't Sparkle Anymore
Trouble Keeps Hanging 'Round My Door
You're Breaking My Heart
The Straight And Narrow Way
Look Who's Talkin'
Got Money On My Mind
Headin' Down The Wrong Highway
My Fallen Star
Long John
Now I Must Reap (What I Have Sown)
I'm That Kind Of A Guy |
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JASM - Jasmine |
| Number |
3547 |
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