Jimmie Davis

Jimmie Davis

Jimmie Davis

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Top Songs

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You Are My Sunshine
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Nobody's Darlin' But Mine
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Honky Tonk Blues
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There's a Chill on the Hill Tonight
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You've Been Tom Cattin' Around

Albums

  • Lonely Hobo - Jimmie Davis Honoring The Yodeling Cowboy

    Jul 2023 • 12 songs

  • You Are My Sunshine - Nobody's Darlin' but Mine
  • Sweet Lorene

    Sep 2018 • 17 songs

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Jimmie Davis

Biography

In a performing career spanning eight decades of the 20th century, Jimmie Davis embraced both risqué country-blues and later traditional gospel, meanwhile maintaining a concurrent public-service career that saw him twice elected governor of Louisiana. In fact, his greatest musical successes came during his two terms as governor, once in the mid-'40s and again in the early '60s. Born James Houston Davis in Beech Springs, LA, on September 11, 1899 (he would later report it as 1902, then switch back to the earlier date), Davis was the son of a poor sharecropper, but nevertheless...
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