Ted Daffan wrote as Frankie Brown and recorded "Born To Lose" in 1942. In 1944 this release by Ted Daffan's Texans with vocal by Leon Seago peaked at number three. Just some of the entertainers who recorded this song: Ella Fitzgerald, Jerry Lee Lewis, Gene Pitney, Johnny Cash, Leonard Cohen and Elton John, Willie Nelson, The Everly Brothers, Dean Martin, Hank Snow, Tom Jones, Eric Clapton and Billy Vaughn.

One of my favourite albums is "Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music" by Ray Charles (Robinson). "Born To Lose" (Frankie Brown aka Ted Daffan) is the track that hit the U.K. top ten while it reached the Billboard top forty in 1962 and eventually went platinum. The single was the B side of "I Can't Stop Loving You". Ray played the bus driver in the 1996 movie comedy "Spy Hard".