Many original television theme songs of the era also showed a strong disco influence, such as " Keep Your Eye On The Sparrow " ( theme from Baretta, performed by Sammy Davis, Jr. and later a hit single for Rhythm Heritage ), Theme from " S. W. A. T.

Bogart then performed in The Bad Sister with Bette Davis in 1931, in a minor part.

Jazz innovator Miles Davis recorded and performed with musicians like Khalil Balakrishna, Bihari Sharma, and Badal Roy in his post-1968 electric ensembles.

With this revamped formation, Davis began a year during which the sextet performed and toured extensively and produced a record ( 1958 Miles, also known as 58 Sessions ).

After leaving Mingus, he performed and recorded a few sides with various European bands, and American musicians living in Paris, such as Donald Byrd and Nathan Davis.

When Sir George Gilbert Scott performed his renovations in the 19th century, he ripped out the front row of Davis misericords, replacing them with his own designs, which themselves seem to contain many copies of the misericords at Gloucester Cathedral, Worcester Cathedral and New College, Oxford.

* Complete variation performed by the LSO conducted by Sir Colin Davis in 2004

Bette Davis also performed for black regiments as the only white member of an acting troupe formed by Hattie McDaniel, that also included Lena Horne and Ethel Waters.

The remaining three members of the band reformed in 2003 with The Dictators ' singer Handsome Dick Manitoba as its new vocalist, and this reformed line-up occasionally performed live over the next nine years until Davis died of liver failure in February 2012 at the age of 68.

In the 1990 – 91 season, among the works performed that were new to the society was Paul McCartney's Liverpool Concerto, conducted in Liverpool Cathedral by Carl Davis.

He was one of the first drummers ( along with Kenny Clarke ) to play in the bebop style, and performed in bands led by Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Coleman Hawkins, Bud Powell, and Miles Davis.

They also helped actress Bette Davis and actor John Garfield found California's famous Hollywood Canteen, a welcome retreat for servicemen where the trio often performed, volunteering their personal time to sing and dance for the soldiers, sailors and Marines ( they did the same at New York City's Stage Door Canteen during the war ).

Based on a stage play performed at a Dark Shadows convention, Return to Collinwood is an audio drama written by Jamison Selby and Jim Pierson, and starring David Selby, Kathryn Leigh Scott, John Karlen, Nancy Barrett, Lara Parker, Roger Davis, Marie Wallace, Christopher Pennock, Donna Wandrey, James Storm, and Terry Crawford.

Mari Wilson performed the song " Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps ", by Osvaldo Farrés and Joe Davis, to accompany the opening and closing credits.

On June 20, 1965, Sinatra, Martin, and Davis, with Johnny Carson as the emcee ( substituting for Bishop, who was out with a bad back ), performed their only televised concert together during the heyday of the Pack at the Kiel Opera House in St. Louis, a closed-circuit broadcast done as a fundraiser for Dismas House ( the first halfway house for ex-convicts ) and fed live to movie theatres across the country.

Sinatra and Davis still performed regularly, yet had not recorded for several years.

To a sold-out crowd of 14, 500, Davis opened the show, followed by Martin and then Sinatra ; after an interval, the three performed a medley of songs.

As well, he performed with many of the most famous stars of the day such as Bette Davis ( The Cabin in the Cotton ), Jeanette MacDonald, Tyrone Power, Edward G. Robinson, and Will Rogers.

Within six months Jonathan Davis, who performed with Shuck in Sexart, signed Orgy to Korn's label Elementree Records.

Williams had performed at the legendary Monterey Jazz Festival 12 times, spanning from 1959 thru 1993, sharing the stage with jazz greats such as Sarah Vaughan, Dianne Reeves, Thelonious Monk, Oscar Peterson, Miles Davis, Cal Tjader, Carmen McRae, Herbie Hancock, Nat Adderley, and Dizzy Gillespie.

** Arnold Levine & Frank Harkins ( art directors ) for Miles Davis & John Coltrane: The Complete Columbia Recordings 1955-1961 performed by Miles Davis & John Coltrane

** Bob Blumenthal ( notes writer ) for Miles Davis & John Coltrane: The Complete Columbia Recordings 1955-1961 performed by Miles Davis & John Coltrane

At the start of the Civil War Upham began marketing patriotic items to support the Union, and novelty items mocking the Confederacy, such as cards depicting the head of Jefferson Davis on the body of a jackass.

It was remade as Pocketful of Miracles in 1961, with Bette Davis in the Apple Annie role ( fused with the old woman from Runyon's short story " The Brain Goes Home "); Frank Sinatra recorded the upbeat title song ( his rendition is not used in the film ).

On an oft-quoted take of Parker's signature song, " Now's the Time ", Davis takes a melodic solo, whose unbop-like quality anticipates the " cool jazz " period that would follow.

A widely related story, attributed to Richard ( Prophet ) Jennings was that Davis, while in Detroit playing at the Blue Bird club as a guest soloist in Billy Mitchell's house band along with Tommy Flanagan, Elvin Jones, Betty Carter, Yusef Lateef, Barry Harris, Thad Jones, Curtis Fuller and Donald Byrd stumbled into Baker's Keyboard Lounge out of the rain, soaking wet and carrying his trumpet in a paper bag under his coat, walked to the bandstand and interrupted Max Roach and Clifford Brown in the midst of performing Sweet Georgia Brown by beginning to play My Funny Valentine, and then, after finishing the song, stumbled back into the rainy night.

Two additional compositions were attributed to him by two other jazz composers: " Betcha I Getcha ," attributed to Beiderbecke as a co-composer by Joe Venuti, the composer of the song, and " Cloudy ", attributed to Beiderbecke by composer Charlie Davis as a composition from circa 1924.

Jonathan Davis released a 14-second sample on SoundCloud in late March, of a new song entitled " Get Up!

The song " Daddy " was described by lead singer Jonathan Davis " When I was a kid, I was being abused by somebody else and I went to my parents and told them about it, and they thought I was lying and joking around.

Davis's name became well-known to a younger audience when Kim Carnes's song " Bette Davis Eyes " became a worldwide hit and the best-selling record of 1981 in the U. S., where it stayed at number one on the music charts for more than two months.

Davis's grandson was impressed that she was the subject of a hit song and Davis considered it a compliment, writing to both Carnes and the songwriters, and accepting the gift of gold and platinum records from Carnes, and hanging them on her wall.

" April in Paris " ( arrangement by Wild Bill Davis ) was a best-selling instrumental and the title song for the hit album.

Other notable guest stars included: Cesar Romero as Chico's absentee father ; Tony Orlando as Chico's look-alike, the ex-fiance of a hostile woman he wants to date ; José Feliciano, who wrote the theme song, as Chico's womanizing famous-singer cousin Pepe Fernando ; Sammy Davis Jr. as himself ; Herbie Faye appeared as Bernie in the 1975 episode " Louie's Retirement "; Shelley Winters ( reuniting with Albertson, with whom she'd costarred in The Poseidon Adventure ) as the owner of the local bakery, Shirley Schrift ( her real name ); Jim Backus as Ed's friend who uses him as a " beard "— pretending to be playing cards with him when cheating on his wife ( Audra Lindley ); silent-film actress Carmel Myers as a former star who has fallen on hard times, brings in her car for repairs, and stays in the garage while looking for work ; George Takei as Ed's supposed long-lost son from his time in Japan during World War II ; Cesare Danova as Aunt Connie's Spanish aristocrat boyfriend, the Count de Catalan, in the second episode in which she appeared ; comedian Joey Bishop as an inept robber ; Bernie Kopell as a plastic surgeon ; Rose Marie as a CB radio enthusiast with whom a lonely Ed connects on New Year's Eve ; Penny Marshall, as a waitress ; football star Rosey Grier as himself, Della's date for a charity benefit dance ; Larry Hovis as a customer in the second episode of the first season ; and Jim Jordan ( of radio's Fibber McGee and Molly ) as a mechanic who used to be a big businessman, until he was victimized by his own company's retirement-age mandate ).

The musical group The Mountain Goats recorded a song called Jeff Davis County Blues on their 2002 album All Hail West Texas.

The country song " Where There's a Road " by Robbie Fulks starts with the line " Jeff Davis was no county line to my daddy.

* James Houston " Jimmie " Davis, who is buried there, was a Louisiana governor and writer of the song " You Are My Sunshine ".

Michael Davis himself appears on backing vocals on the MC5 cover song " The Human Being Lawnmower ".

on the Seattle TV station KING, spearheaded an effort to have " Louie Louie " replace " Washington, My Home " by Helen Davis as Washington's official state song.

Cook, Greenaway, Backer, and Billy Davis reworked the song and recorded it as a Coca-Cola radio commercial.

Radio stations began to get calls from people who liked it and Billy Davis ' friends in radio suggested he record the song, but not as an advertising jingle.

Max, Robe, and Megan concoct methods of revenge including terrifing Troy by playing a main theme song from the fictional children's television show, MacGoogle the Highlander Frog, and later severely traumatizing him by trapping him in the gym with MacGoogle, instigating a fight between Dobbs and the Evil Ice Cream Man by stealing a coolant coil for his ice cream truck and his handheld device, and lastly to ruin Jindrake's chances of becoming superintendent to replace the current superintendent, Crazy Legs ( Clifton Davis ), by planting animal pheronomes within his breath spray, instigating a food fight, and later by sabotaging his announcements by placing a cardboard cutout of Max pointing at Jindrake claiming that the latter was wearing a thong.

" After this album and the two following singles, his own " Generation of Revelations ", and the Mac Davis song " In the Ghetto ", which had already cleaned up for Elvis Presley, failed to chart, his contract was not renewed.

Davis was very impressed with the band's performance and bought their contract from Warner Bros. Their debut album on CBS / Columbia Records, Last Days and Time, featured mostly original material, but Bailey had recommended that the band cover the Pete Seeger song " Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

One of his most recognized accomplishments was signing the Boston group Aerosmith to Columbia Records in the early 1970s at New York City's Max's Kansas City, which was mentioned in the 1979 Aerosmith song " No Surprise ", where Steven Tyler sings, " Old Clive Davis said he's surely gonna make you a star, just the way you are.

The album ended with a version of The Spencer Davis Group song " Gimme Some Loving ", which became a minor hit.

* Blackstar, a song by Georgie Davis

Jimmy Page cites the song in the Davis Guggenheim documentary It Might Get Loud and proceeds to play air guitar to the song in the movie.