Gov. Jimmie Davis ('You Are My Sunshine')

Subject: Gov. Jimmy Davis.("You Are My Sunshine')
From: Bill D
Date: 13 Sep 99 - 08:54 PM

This article in todays Wasington Post on Jimmy Davis..now 100 years old...click here

quite a character....

Subject: RE: Gov. Jimmy Davis.('You Are My Sunshine')
From: Stewie
Date: 13 Sep 99 - 10:26 PM

The German label, Bear Family, has issued the complete works of Jimmy Davis in 2 box sets 'Nobody's Darling But Mine' (the more interesting of the 2, I reckon) and 'You are my sunshine'. 10 CDs in all. They include wonderfully informative colour booklets and discographies by Tony Russell. Some great stuff therein, but rather overwhelming (if not overkill).

Subject: RE: Gov. Jimmy Davis.('You Are My Sunshine')
From: DougR
Date: 14 Sep 99 - 08:25 PM

Bill D: You made my day! Posting that story about Jimmy Davis reminds me of one of my favorite memories of my wife. I managed the Phoenix Symphony back in the 1960s and I booked Eddy Arnold to appear in a pop concert. After the concert we drove Eddy and his manager, Jerry Purcell, back to our house for a dinner party. My wife, Velma, asked Eddy if he had ever recorded "Be Nobody's Darlin'?" He said, "No, but it's a great old song." Several months later Velma was shopping for some new records and she found Eddy's latest release. It included "Nobody's Darlin'" on it. She always believed her question reminded him of the song and he recorded it. Probably not true, but she thought it might be.

Thanks for posting the story.

DougR