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Jimmie Davis with Charles Mitchell's Orchestra

Always the astute businessman, Jimmie Davis (1899-2000) got his start as a Jimmie Rodgers imitator with early sides made for Victor and Bluebird between 1929 and 1933. Whereas other artists, such as Gene Autry and Cliff Carlisle, covered many songs recorded by Rodgers, Davis rarely did, choosing instead to write his own songs in Rodgers' style (usually the bawdier numbers), thus receiving writers' royalties on the sales. One of the few Rodgers songs Davis cut was Roll Along Kentucky Moon, which was actually written by Bill Halley (pronounced HAL-lee – he was no relation to the rock 'n' roll pioneer). By 1940, Davis had jettisoned all of the naughty songs from his repertoire and was now a singer of harmless numbers concerning mothers, cowboy themes, and sentimental ballads. When he ran for the governorship of Louisiana in 1944 (and for years afterward), he refused to acknowledge that he had ever made risqué records, stating in his autobiography that his first release was Nobody's Darlin' But Mine, which was recorded in 1934. When I finally got a chance to interview Davis in 1984, he finally admitted to making the Victor recordings, but excused them by saying, "a lot of people recorded worse things than I ever did."

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