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2-CD with 64-page booklet, 45 tracks. Playing time approx. 115 mns. Ted Daffan is best-known as... more

Various - Record Label Profiles: The Daffan Records Story (2-CD)

2-CD with 64-page booklet, 45 tracks. Playing time approx. 115 mns.

Ted Daffan is best-known as the composer of Born To Lose, Worried Mind, I've Got Five Dollars And It's Saturday Night etc., and it's little known that he operated his own label on and off (mostly off) from 1955 until 1971. Most artists start a label to record themselves, but Daffan never appeared on Daffan Records except as a composer.

He started with Jerry Jericho's original version of These Hands. The sadly neglected Texas honky tonk king Jerry Irby recorded prolifically for Daffan, as did Floyd Tillman and Laura Lee McBride. The Pickering Brothers, who recorded with Buddy Holly on Oh Boy have five songs on this set, but the biggest surprise is Johnny Bundrick, who went to England to work with Free, Bob Marley and others, but he's heard here as a young and very good rock 'n' roll pianist.

The Daffan Records Story by Kevin Coffey

Mention of Ted Daffan usually conjures the strains of pensive, proto-honky-tonk classics like Born To Lose, Worried Mind, Heading Down The Wrong Highway, and a clean, streamlined sound dominated by straightforward lead guitar and accordion.

The name does not, to most who know it and the music, bring to the mind's ear rare hillbilly-cum-rockabilly discs by William Penix. It doesn't readily evoke Jerry Irby's valiant mid-fifties stabs at rock and roll, the mambo or anything else he thought might revive his career. Nor is it likely to conjure Floyd Tillman having a ball with a decidedly uncommercial session of spare acoustic blues.
To those interested in small, independent record labels or with that fertile ground between country and rock and roll, however, Daffan brings to mind these very things. Penix, Irby and Tillman were all part of the odd mixture of artists and styles issued on Daffan Records. In his struggle to carve a niche for his own label amid the imposing dominance of the majors, Ted Daffan released a fascinated and uneven range of music. And the fewer than two-dozen discs he issued maintained an idiosyncratic stylistic unity that paralleled his own style and flew in the face of the major label's growing tendency toward garish overproduction.

Ted Daffan had left the band business by the time he started his own label in 1955. He was poised to supplement his steady income from royalties by recording demos and the like at a Houston house/studio he had purchased from his friend Floyd Tillman. He began his label with no grand design —simply as a way to get his friend Eddie Noack's song These Hands on the market. Like any independent, he hoped to cover as much territory as possible and, if one of his records hit, make a sweet leasing deal with one of the majors. It was a tough, risky endeavor, but others had shown it could work. Unfortunately, it didn't — quite.

Due to a number of problems, the label's initial and most active period of operation was less than two years, although its lifetime would, through intermittent resuscitation, eventually span over fifteen. The twenty-odd releases on Daffan Records remain much sought after collector's items today, particularly those early items recorded between the end of 1955 and 1958. The label's entire, varied output, including several custom releases and unreleased items, is reissued here for the first time.

Ted Daffan was at a crossroads both in his life and his career in the fall of 1955. His days as a best seller for Columbia were behind him, his last big hit was as recent as 1950 — I've Got Five Dollars And It's Saturday Night. Les Paul and Mary Ford had recently scored with a revival of his 1940 classic I'm a Fool To Care, and Faron Young would shortly hit with a remake of I've Got Five Dollars, but Daffan was hardly at a peak. He'd had a decade of enormous success following his 1941 departure from Houston's Bar X Cowboys to form his Texans...

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Various - Record Label Profiles - The Daffan Records Story (2-CD) CD 1
01 These Hands JERICHO, Jerry
02 Walk My Way JERICHO, Jerry
03 Tangled Mind IRBY, Jerry
04 Bottom Of The List IRBY, Jerry
05 Heartaches For Gold TILLMAN, Floyd
06 Running Away TILLMAN, Floyd
07 Always Lend A Helping Hand JERICHO, Jerry
08 I'm Getting More Than My Share JERICHO, Jerry
09 Our Daily Bread McBRIDE, Dickie
10 Silent Partners McBRIDE, Dickie
11 Call For Me Darling IRBY, Jerry
12 It's Time You Started Looking IRBY, Jerry
13 How Foolish Can Woman Be McBRIDE, Laura Lee
14 I Want My Man McBRIDE, Laura Lee
15 Clickety Clack IRBY, Jerry
16 A Man Is A Slave IRBY, Jerry
17 The Rich And The Poor JERICHO, Jerry
18 Which Way Are You Going? JERICHO, Jerry
19 Be Kind To A Man JERICHO, Jerry
20 So Ashamed JERICHO, Jerry
21 That's Too Bad IRBY, Jerry
22 I'd Give You Anything In This World IRBY, Jerry
23 The Waltz That You Saved For Me JERICHO, Jerry
24 I'm Getting More Than My Share (alt.) JERICHO, Jerry
25 Floyd's Song TILLMAN, Floyd
Various - Record Label Profiles - The Daffan Records Story (2-CD) CD 2
01 Hopeless FIDLO
02 Triflin' Heart FIDLO
03 Who's Getting Your Love LEE, Ted
04 The Blues That Way LEE, Ted
05 Dig That Crazy Driver PENNIX, William
06 How Old Do You Get PENNIX, William
07 Teach ´em How To Swim PENNIX, William
08 Them Old Blues Got Me PENNIX, William
09 Ride The Waves Of Love ELLIOTT, Margaret
10 The Last Call ELLIOTT, Margaret
11 Strange Love BUNDRICK, Johnny
12 Made In Japan BUNDRICK, Johnny
13 This Wallflower's Gonna Bloom ELLIOTT, Margaret
14 What's Her Name ELLIOTT, Margaret
15 The Cold Grey Walls Of Yesterday PICKERING BROS
16 Please (Come Back To Me) PICKERING BROS
17 The Surviving Half Of A Love Affair PICKERING BROS
18 Lady Luck, My Love PICKERING BROS
19 Letter From Nashville PICKERING BROS
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Label Profiles
History and Wedegang of record companies
In addition to presenting special record companies on individual CDs, Bear Family Records has dedicated boxes and entire series to several labels over the last twenty years.

The Texas label D-Records, for example, changes on 24 CDs from an ethnic-folkloristic label to a hardcore honky-tonk smithy and the home of the very young George Strait.

Then there is the indispensable Sun range and some other great boxes.

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Tracklist
Various - Record Label Profiles - The Daffan Records Story (2-CD) CD 1
01 These Hands
02 Walk My Way
03 Tangled Mind
04 Bottom Of The List
05 Heartaches For Gold
06 Running Away
07 Always Lend A Helping Hand
08 I'm Getting More Than My Share
09 Our Daily Bread
10 Silent Partners
11 Call For Me Darling
12 It's Time You Started Looking
13 How Foolish Can Woman Be
14 I Want My Man
15 Clickety Clack
16 A Man Is A Slave
17 The Rich And The Poor
18 Which Way Are You Going?
19 Be Kind To A Man
20 So Ashamed
21 That's Too Bad
22 I'd Give You Anything In This World
23 The Waltz That You Saved For Me
24 I'm Getting More Than My Share (alt.)
25 Floyd's Song
Various - Record Label Profiles - The Daffan Records Story (2-CD) CD 2
01 Hopeless
02 Triflin' Heart
03 Who's Getting Your Love
04 The Blues That Way
05 Dig That Crazy Driver
06 How Old Do You Get
07 Teach ´em How To Swim
08 Them Old Blues Got Me
09 Ride The Waves Of Love
10 The Last Call
11 Strange Love
12 Made In Japan
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14 What's Her Name
15 The Cold Grey Walls Of Yesterday
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