"You've Got Your Troubles" became the inaugural composition by the prolific songwriting team of Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway in 1964. "You've Got Your Troubles" became a #2 UK hit for the Fortunes in the United Kingdom in August 1965, affording the group international success including a Top Ten ranking in the US. The track was included on the Fortunes' self-titled 1965 debut album release, the group's only album release of the 1960s.

Cook and Greenaway wrote "You've Got Your Troubles" while they were both members of the group the Kestrels, the song being composed while that group was on a pop package tour. Cook recalls he and Greenaway were in a theater. "Roger [Greenaway] said 'I've [written] a little tune' and we both brought our ukuleles out and he played [his tune] and he said 'Could you help me with the lyric?' and in the space of two hours we'd written the whole song".

Cook and Greenaway cut a demo to pitch the song which was accepted by Mills Music Publishing, where the two were signed as staff writers by Tony Hiller. Hiller, who had written "Caroline" the second of four previous non-charting singles by the Fortunes, placed "You've Got Your Troubles" with that group. Noel Walker, an in-house producer for Decca Records, would recall: "The Fortunes' contract came up for renewal and Decca didn't want to renew it...I told Decca that they sung wonderfully and deserved another chance. I wanted to use them as singers backed by professional musicians" - the Fortunes would receive some adverse publicity for not playing on the track themselves - "and I found a beautiful song 'You've Got Your Troubles'." Les Reed, who arranged the session for the Fortunes' recording, conceived the track's striking trumpet motif. (Reed believes that on their demo Cook and Greenaway vocalised the notes which Reed would have played on the trumpet.)

Radio Caroline North DJ Mike Ahern would claim that his radio station was responsible for the breakout of the Fortunes' "You've Got Your Troubles", which reached #2 on the UK chart dated 25 August 1965, held off from #1 by the Beatles' "Help!", then in the final week of its three-week tenure at #1 UK. In the US "You've Got Your Troubles" peak at #7 on the 2 October 1965 Hot 100. The song also peaked at #1 in Canada and #3 in Ireland and was especially successful in the Netherlands, spending 14 weeks in the Top Ten and peaking at #3. Other international hit parade rankings were achieved in Australia (#12), Belgium (French=#24/ Flemish=#10), Germany (#28), and South Africa (#6).

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