Ted Daffan
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About
Country musician whose hit "Truck Drivin' Blues" helped launch the truck driving country song genre.
Before Fame
His hit song was inspired by an observation at a roadside diner that every trucker who came in dropped a coin into the jukebox before he even sat down to order.
Trivia
After selling 100,000 copies of "Truck Drivers' Blues," the best-selling record of 1939, he formed a band called The Texans and scored another chart-topping hit with the anthem "Born to Lose."
Family Life
He was born Theron Eugene Daffan in Beauregard Parish, Louisiana.
Associated With
Dave Dudley was another well-known truck driving country musician; he wrote the 1960s hit "Six Days on the Road."
