BORN TO LOSE

Created on 04/12/2005
Latest update on 04/07/2023

Artist: Ted Daffan's Texans
Author: Frankie Brown
Label: Okeh
Year: 1942

Frankie Brown is an alias for Ted Daffan, western swing steel guitarist from Houston (ex Blue Ridge Playboys and Bar-X Cowboys) who also wrote Worried Mind and I'm A Fool To Care. Vocal: Leon Seago. Spike Jones is the drummer.

Covers:

1947:

Elton Britt

1948:

Ray Smith

1962:

Ray Charles [B-side of his first big country hit I Can't Stop Loving You]

1962:

Johnny Cash

1963:

Everly Brothers

1965:

Dean Martin

1967:

Mitch Ryder

1968:

Ella Fitzgerald

1969:

Jerry Lee Lewis

1972:

Eddy Arnold

1993:

Elton John & Leonard Cohen

1999:

LeAnn Rimes

2000:

Steve James

2013:

Eric Clapton

2013:

Madeleine Peyroux

Johnny Thunders' Born To Lose, covered by Sid Vicious, Jeff Dahl, Motörhead, Die Toten Hosen and Soft Cell, is another song.

Contact


If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
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Arnold Rypens
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B-2840 Reet (Rumst)

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