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Ted
Daffan
"If
I have to fool around with a song for a day or two, I might as well
forget it because it won't be any good anyway.
No
citations were given before 1952. I recorded from 1940 to 1950 so my
own hits did not receive citations. I have songs on over 160 albums
by over 100 artists.
Songs
most proud of:
I
am very happy to have been a charter member of the Songwriters Hall
of Fame."
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Birth
Name: Theron Eugene Daffan
Induction
Year: 1970
Date
of Birth: 9/21/1912
Place
of Birth: Merryville, LA
Date
of Death: 10/6/1996
Place
of Death: Houston, TX |
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Former Occupations:
water
boy on construction projects
oil
field worker
railroad
worker |
Education:
High
School--Lufkin-Jefferson Davis High (Houston) (from 1926-1930) |
Career Milestones:
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1932--began
teaching steel guitar |
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8/1934--joined
band, the Blue Ridge Playboys; played with them on KXYZ |
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1937--made
first recordings in San Antonio |
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1938--joined
the Bar X Cowboys |
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1939--first
original song recorded by Cliff Bruner "Truck Drivers
Blues" (first #1) |
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1940--signed
first recording contract in February with Okeh label (through
Columbia); first big hit, "Worried Mind" |
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1940--formed
his band "Ted Daffan and his Texans" |
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1943--topped
record sales for the year; million sellers were "Born to
Lose" and "No Letter Today" |
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1944--moved
to Los Angeles to head up a swing band to perform at Venice Pier Ballroom |
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1944--first
gold record "Born to Lose" (went on to be recorded by over
100 artists) |
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1954--Les
Paul & Mary Fordhad a pop hit with "I'm a Fool to Care" |
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1955--started
his own record label, Daffan Records |
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1958--co-partnered
a music publishing company in Nashville with Hank Snow |
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1961--formed
his own music publishing company in Houston |
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1962--Ray
Charles recorded "Born to Lose" making it a multi-million
seller again |
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1980--listed
in the Smithsonian Collection of Classic Country Music |
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1982--received
a platinum record on "Born to Lose" |
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1992--received
a BMI 1 million air play award for "Born to Lose" |
Awards:
1954--BMI
Pop Citation\I'm a Fool to Care
1956--BMI
Country Citation\I've Got Five Dollars and It's Saturday Night
1957--BMI
Country Citation\Tangled Mind
1960--BMI
Country Citation\\Last Ride
1994--Hall
of Fame Western Swing Society induction
Catalog
Highlights
Born
To Lose
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Artists:
Ted Daffan and his Texans (1942), Ernest Tubb, Hank Snow, Don
Gibson, Ray Charles, Johnny Cash, Bobby Goldsboro, Pete Fountain,
Tennessee Ernie Ford, Everly Brothers, Jean Sheppard, Ray Price,
George Jones, Pattie Page, Slim Whitman, Willie Nelson, Ella
Fitzgerald, Jerry Lee Lewis, Boots Randolph, Eddy Arnold, Conway
Twitty, Johnny Rodriguez, Elton John and Leonard Cohen
I'm
a Fool to Care
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Artists:
Ted Daffan and his Texans (1940), Les Paul and Mary Ford, Gene
Autry, Connie Frances, George Jones, Ray Charles, Ricky Nelson, Ringo
Starr, Fats Domino, Jim Reeves, Anne Murray
I've
Got Five Dollars and It's Saturday Night
No
Letter Today
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Artists:
Ted Daffan and his Texans (1942), Les Paul and Mary Ford, Rosemary
Clooney, Ray Charles, Hank Snow and Anita Carter, Ernest Tubb, Connie
Frances and Hank Williams Jr., Tennessee Ernie Ford, Faron Young
Worried
Mind
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Co-writer:
Jimmie Davis
- Ted
Daffan and his Texans (1940), Bob Wills, Roy Acuff, George Jones,
Les Paul and Mary Ford, Johnny Mann Singers, Tennessee Ernie Ford
Headin'
Down the Wrong Highway
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Artists:
Ted Daffan (1945), Don Gibson, Ernest Tubb, Hank Locklin, Tab
Hunter, Billy Walker, Billy Western
Shut
That Gate
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Co-writer:
Dick James
- Artists:
Ted Daffan (1947)
Look
Who's Talkin'
A
Woman Captured Me
Tangled
Mind
Shadow
On My Heart
Comments:
Awarded
5 BMI performance awards |