Catalogue: JASMCD 3547
Price Code: A
Release Date: 01/05/2004
Bar Code: 604988 35472 0
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Ted DAFFANBorn to Lose
 
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 Driver’s
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 wasn’t 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 mother’s 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 didn’t 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.
Produced by: Al Turner
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