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Author: piemaker720


piemaker720 06-26-2007 08:19 PM

A great person from Jonesboro that lived to be 101 when he passed on.
:clap:

Pocahontas 06-26-2007 09:59 PM

What a nice man! I drive over the Jimmie Davis Bridge and highway every day!
Wasn't his wife's name Sunshine, therefore, giving double meaning to the hit "You are my Sunshine?":)

piemaker720 06-26-2007 10:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Pocahontas
What a nice man! I drive over the Jimmie Davis Bridge and highway every day!
Wasn't his wife's name Sunshine, therefore, giving double meaning to the hit "You are my Sunshine?":)

No, his first wife's name was Alverna Adams from Shreveport. His second wife was Anna Carter Gordon, until he passed away at the age of 101. He is buried in the Davis Family Cemetery in Quitman, in Jackson Parish. No other former U.S. governor has ever lived longer. There at Beech Springs where he was born is the Jimmie Davis Tabernacle located on his home place.

Pocahontas 06-26-2007 11:12 PM

Oh okay thanks for clearing that up. Guess that was one of those urban legends you hear about.

AnimeSpirit 06-26-2007 11:25 PM

I think there is some Jimmie Davis music on SBRadio. :p

Isaac-Saxxon 06-27-2007 07:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Pocahontas
What a nice man! I drive over the Jimmie Davis Bridge and highway every day!
Wasn't his wife's name Sunshine, therefore, giving double meaning to the hit "You are my Sunshine?":)

James Houston Davis, better known as Jimmie Davis, (September 11, 1899 - November 5, 2000) was a noted singer of both sacred and popular songs who served two nonconsecutive terms as a Democratic governor of Louisiana (1944-1948 and 1960-1964). Davis was considered to have been part of the anti-Long faction though Governor Earl Kemp Long endorsed him in the pivotal 1960 runoff election.


He is associated with several popular songs, most notably "You Are My Sunshine," which was designated an official state song of Louisiana in 1977. He claimed that he wrote the song while attending graduate school at LSU, but research indicates he bought it from another performer Paul Rice, who had recorded it with his brother Hoke, who recorded together as the Rice Brothers under Paul Rice's name. The practice of buying songs from their composers was a common practice during the 1930s through the 1960s. Some writers in need of cash often sold tunes to others.

piemaker720 06-27-2007 08:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Isaac-Saxxon
James Houston Davis, better known as Jimmie Davis, (September 11, 1899 - November 5, 2000) was a noted singer of both sacred and popular songs who served two nonconsecutive terms as a Democratic governor of Louisiana (1944-1948 and 1960-1964). Davis was considered to have been part of the anti-Long faction though Governor Earl Kemp Long endorsed him in the pivotal 1960 runoff election.


He is associated with several popular songs, most notably "You Are My Sunshine," which was designated an official state song of Louisiana in 1977. He claimed that he wrote the song while attending graduate school at LSU, but research indicates he bought it from another performer Paul Rice, who had recorded it with his brother Hoke, who recorded together as the Rice Brothers under Paul Rice's name. The practice of buying songs from their composers was a common practice during the 1930s through the 1960s. Some writers in need of cash often sold tunes to others.

Rice himself had adapted it from another person's poem. Reportedly, the song was copyrighted under Davis' name and that of longtime sideman Charles Mitchell, after they purchased it from Rice. Davis also purchased the country ballad "It Makes No Difference Now" from its composer Floyd Tillman. Tillman later had his composer credit restored alongside Davis's.
Rice himself didn't actually write the words eiher, it came from a poem.


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