You've Got Your Troubles

Album

Fortunes,The

Label

Press Records

Genre

Dance-pop

Composer(s)

Roger Cook;Roger Greenaway

Entered Chart

Aug 21, 1965

Peak Date

Oct 9, 1965

Released

August 1965

Recorded

Unknown

Catalog #

Press 9773

B-Side

I've Gotta Go

"You've Got Your Troubles" was the fifth single released by The Fortunes, written by the noted songwriting team of Roger Greenaway and Roger Cook, who also wrote "Long Cool Woman (In A Black Dress)." It was The Fortunes' most successful single and the first song Cook and Greenaway wrote together. This song was also covered by Jack Blanchard and Misty Morgan, who were a husband-and-wife country duo from Florida. Their version in 1970 charted #27 on the US Country charts and #11 on the Canadian country charts. If you're still drawing a blank on Jack Blanchard and Misty Morgan, they're also the duo behind "Tennessee Bird Walk," their most-successful single. Since that was a novelty song, ask any Dr. Demento fan to show you their copy of Dr. Dememto's 30th Anniversary Collection: Dementia 2000!. Once you hear it, you'll want it played at your wedding. While they aren't as well-known today, The Fortunes were a big deal in their time. You know the Coca-Cola jingle "It's The Real Thing?" And the even-earlier one "Things Go Better With Coke?" The Fortunes! In the 1990s and 2000s, they recruited ex-Badfinger Bob Jackson and ex-Dakota Eddie Mooney. They were also on the UK TV show Top of the Pops in 1965. The Fortunes also signed to Decca Records in 1963 - who were probably still smarting from their decision to turn down the Beatles the year before because "guitar groups are on the way out." Speaking of Coca-Cola jingles, in case you were wondering, The Fortunes did not also do "I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing" - that was The New Seekers in 1971, although the same song-writing team of Roger Greenaway and Roger Cook also wrote that one. Apparently, Coca-Cola at once point decided to hang its entire marketing strategy upon British pop stars. The Fortunes come from Birmingham, England, and thus form part of the "brum beat" genre. Brum beat and Mersey sound (sometimes called "Mersey beat") have a lot in common - both from England, both with a similar (often confused) sound, both originating in the 1960s. Brum beat concentrates around the West Midlands music scene in the 1960s. "You've Got Your Troubles" also has one more piece of fascinating music history attached to it. The British pirate radio station Radio City ("your tower of power" around the Thames Estuary) would play this song as a kind of distress signal to associates, indicating that the station needed assistance. Want a quote from Roger Cook about this song? Here's what he said in 1000 UK #1 Hits by Jon Kutner and Spencer Leigh: "There isn't a musician in England, who didn't learn something from The Beatles, but I like to think that they picked up a trick or two from us. Roger Greenaway and I wrote a counter-melody on 'You've Got Your Troubles' and there hadn't been one in a hit song for years. A few weeks later, The Beatles came out with 'Help!.' and there is a counter melody in that."

I see that worried look upon your face
You've got your troubles, I've got mine
She's found somebody else to take your place
You've got your troubles, I've got mine

I too have lost my love today
All of my dreams have flown away

Now just like you, I sit and wonder why
You've got your troubles, I've got mine
You need some sympathy, well so do I
You've got your troubles, I've got mine

She used to love me, that I know
And it don't seem so long ago

That we were walking
And we were talking
The way that lovers do

I too have lost my love today
All of my dreams have flown away

And so forgive me if I seem unkind (I ain't got no pity for you)
You've got your troubles, I've got mine (I lost, I lost, I lost my little girl
Too)
I'd help another place, another time
You've got your troubles, I've got mine

You've got your troubles, I've got mine
You've got your troubles, I've got mine.