[78-L] Born to Lose..royalties?

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Thu Jun 30 08:05:30 PDT 2011


Interesting..anyone know anything about this? A claim to Canadian content for a 
couple of country classics.

>
> This below article was in
> the June issue of the Milton Historical Journal:
>
> "Frankie Brown grew up in Milton and attended Milton High School from 1940 to
> 1944. He wrote two songs, Born to Lose and No Letter Today that he submitted to
> a friend in New York and they were played on radio broadcasts and jukeboxes in
> the United States. Frank Brown teamed up with fellow student musician Margaret
> Morrison to complement his written words. Frank Brown was also a good singer
> and would perform locally in his youth. The archives has a page of sheet music
> written by Frank Brown and donated to the archives. Frank Brown was the only
> son of Mrs. Bertha Brown and Margaret Morrison was the daughter of a well known
> business man, William Morrison. If you have any information about either Frank
> Brown or Margaret Morrison please pass this information along to volunteers at
> the archives"
>
> There are others claiming to have written the songs - 'Born to Lose' and 'No
> Letter Today'.
>
> Best Regards,


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