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

[Cary Ginell]

According to BMI, Frankie Brown is credited with sole authorship of "Born to Lose" and "No Letter Today." The publishing is represented by Peermusic. "Frankie Brown," however, was a pseudonym used by Ted Daffan because (ostensibly) he wrote so many songs (there are 184 listed on BMI's website) that Columbia A&R man Art Satherley asked him to create a new name so it wouldn't look like so many Daffan songs were being used. I know nothing about claims by other "Frank Browns" (of which there are likely many), but believe this person's claims are spurious. It seems highly unlikely that someone from Canada would write two monster hit songs for a Texas artist and then not write anything else ever again. C'mon folks. 

Cary Ginell

> Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:05:30 -0400
> From: dlennick at sympatico.ca
> To: 78-L at 78online.com
> Subject: [78-L] Born to Lose..royalties?
> 
> 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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