Jimmie Davis
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American singer, songwriter and 47th Governor of Louisiana (1899–2000)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1899
- Works
- 5
Top works
- Near the cross
- Great Gospel Songs of Jimmie Davis
- Louisiana, this one's for you!
- You are my sunshine
- You are my sunshine
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1926-05-26
- Active to
- 1991-09-28
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 24,890
- Total plays
- 109,490
Tags
James Houston "Jimmie" Davis (September 11, 1899 – November 5, 2000) was a singer of both sacred and popular songs who served for two nonconsecutive terms from 1944 to 1948 and from 1960 to 1964 as the governor of his native Louisiana, USA. Davis was a nationally popular country music and gospel singer from the 1930s into the 1960s, occasionally recording and performing as late as the early 1990s. He is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame. <a href="htt
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 51,051x
- Perceived Usefulness, Perceived Ease of Use, and User Acceptance of Information Technology
· 1989 · cited 45,495x
- <tt>edgeR</tt>
: a Bioconductor package for differential expression analysis of digital gene expression data
· 2009 · cited 39,686x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,896x
- User Acceptance of Information Technology: Toward A Unified View1
· 2003 · cited 31,091x
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Quotes
- “You are my sunshine, my only sunshineYou make me happy when skies are grayYou'll never know, dear, how much I love youPlease don't take my sunshine away.”
- “A song is the most intangible thing in the world. It's not what I like, it's what people like. Songs should be inspirational and have meaning.”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Davis
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Quitman
- Place of death
- Baton Rouge
- Occupation
- actor
- Political party
- Democratic Party (United States)
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Religion
- Baptists
- Award
- Grammy Hall of Fame
- Field of work
- politics
- Genre
- blues
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Decca
- Image
- GovernorJamesDavis.jpg
Show 8 more facts
- date of death
- 2000-11-05
- Commons category
- Jimmie Davis
- date of birth
- 1899-09-11
- writing language
- English language
- name in native language
- James H. Davis
- copyright representative
- Broadcast Music, Inc.
- subject has role
- centenarian
- National Governors Association biography URL
- www.nga.org/governor/james-houston-davis
Sources (2)
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