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Betty Davis ' band included members of the Tower of Power horns and the Pointer Sisters, and she recorded three albums to critical acclaim but limited commercial success.
From 1941 to 1947, the USO presented more than 400, 000 performances, featuring entertainers such as Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Frank Sinatra, Marlene Dietrich, Hattie McDaniel, Eubie Blake, Ann Sheridan, Laurel and Hardy, The Marx Brothers, Jack Benny, Larry Adler, Ossy Renardy, Zero Mostel, James Cagney, James Stewart, Gary Cooper, Doraine and Ellis, Lena Horne, Danny Kaye, The Rockettes, Al Jolson, Fred Astaire, Curly Joe DeRita, The Andrews Sisters, Joe E. Brown, Joe E. Lewis, Ray Bolger, Lucille Ball, Glenn Miller, Martha Raye, Mickey Rooney, Betty Hutton, Dinah Shore, and most famously, Bob Hope.
During and after World War II Peer published songs such as " Deep In The Heart Of Texas " and " You Are My Sunshine " ( sung by Jimmie Davis, covered by Bing Crosby and many others ), " Humpty Dumpty Heart " ( Glenn Miller ), " You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You " ( Russ Morgan ), " The Three Caballeros " ( Andrews Sisters ), " Say A Prayer For The Boys Over There " ( Deanna Durbin ), " I Should Care " and " The Coffee Song " ( both Frank Sinatra ).
Among many, the list included Judy Garland, Sophie Tucker, Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, the Andrews Sisters with Vic Schoen and his orchestra, Bob Hope, Liza Minnelli, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr., Frankie Laine, and Johnnie Ray, freezing out British stars of the day, who were relegated to second-billing.
* The Davis Sisters
In the 1954 musical film White Christmas his picture is used to depict an Army buddy ( named " Freckle-Faced Haynes ") of lead characters ( Wallace and Davis ) played by Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye, and also the brother of the female leads ( the Haynes Sisters ) played by Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen.
Since the late 1970s, Davis has led many conceptual art bands, beginning with " The Afro Sisters ".
Among the more popular of his singers were Frank Parker, Marion Marlowe, Janette Davis, Julius La Rosa, Haleloke, The McGuire Sisters, Carmel Quinn, Pat Boone, Miyoshi Umeki and The Chordettes.
In 1978, two years after his release from prison, Davis was jailed again, having pleaded guilty to involvement in another armed bank raid on 23 September 1977 at The Bank of Cyprus, Seven Sisters Road.
* The Sisters ( 1938 film ), featuring Bette Davis and Errol Flynn
She started out as part of The Davis Sisters as a teenager in the late 1940s, eventually landing on RCA Victor.
They formed a group known as the Davis Sisters ( although they were unrelated ), and started singing on Detroit radio station WJR's program Barnyard Frolics.
Eventually, the duo were signed by RCA Victor in 1951 ( earlier demo recordings were eventually released on Fortune Records after the act's RCA success which has led to some confusion that the Davis Sisters were on the Fortune label before RCA ).
RCA Victor producer Steve Sholes liked the Davis Sisters ' harmonies and offered the duo a recording contract in 1953.
While " I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know " was climbing the charts, the Davis Sisters were involved in a major car accident on August 1, 1953.
After the accident, Skeeter and Betty Jack's sister Georgia continued as the Davis Sisters although none of their records were major hits.
At Davis ' suggestion, Atkins frequently multi-tracked Davis ' voice for harmony vocals to resemble the sound of the Davis Sisters.
The Davis Sisters was an American gospel group founded by Ruth (" Baby Sis ") Davis and featuring her sisters Thelma, Audrey and Alfreda.
Raised in the Fire-Baptized Holiness Church in Philadelphia, the Davis Sisters were one of the first female groups to sing " hard gospel " of the sort being pioneered by the Dixie Hummingbirds and other male quartets of the day.
The Famous Davis Sisters of Philadelphia was founded by Ruth Davis in 1945 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The Davis Sisters finally made their debut at their parents ' home in Philadelphia, PA. in 1946.

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Lincoln's followers organized a campaign team led by David Davis, Norman Judd, Leonard Swett, and Jesse DuBois, and Lincoln received his first endorsement to run for the presidency.
He was first educated at Transylvania University in Lexington, where he met fellow student Jefferson Davis.
Rutherford, who was 70 years old when the first film was made, insisted that she wear her own clothes during the filming of the movie, as well as having her real-life husband, Stringer Davis appear alongside her as the character ' Mr Stringer '.
* 1974 – Christina Davis, Australian ballet dancer and contestant on the first season of Big Brother Australia
* Henry Rust Mighels, journalist, politician, first husband of Nellie Verrill Mighels Davis
* 1847 – Jefferson Davis is elected to the US senate, his first political post.
Paul Chambers ( who worked with Miles Davis on the famous Kind of Blue album ) achieved renown for being one of the first jazz bassists to play bebop solos with the bow.
At least 70 new members entered the latter, with 20 seats going to Fatah representatives from the Gaza Strip, 11 seats filled by women ( the highest number of votes went to one woman who spent years in Israeli jails for her role in the resistance ), four seats went to Christians, and one was filled by a Jewish-born convert to Islam, Uri Davis, the first Jewish-born person to be elected to the Revolutionary Council since its founding in 1958.
It was implied that Jon is inspired by a drawing of Davis himself when he was first drawing the strip.
In June, Davis made the starting lineup at first base, adding power to the team.
While relations were cordial between the two companies at first, the departure of Jim Levy from Activision left Bruce Davis in charge.
* 1986 – Davis Phinney became the first American cyclist to win a road stage of the Tour de France.
In 1842 Davis attended the Democratic convention, and in 1843 became a candidate for the state House of Representatives, losing his first election.
In 1848 Senator Davis introduced the first of several proposed amendments to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ; this one would annex most of northeastern Mexico and failed with a vote of 44 to 11.
As provisional president in 1861, Davis formed his first cabinet.
Davis was first entombed at the Army of Northern Virginia tomb at Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans.
* 1865 – In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first western showdown.
Bob Davis became the CEO and first employee of the new company in 1995.
This was the first of many recordings to which Davis contributed in this period, mostly as a sideman.
The liner notes of the first recordings of the Davis Quintet for Columbia Records call it one of the most spectacular failures of the jazz club scene.
The first half of the 1950s was, for Davis, a period of great personal difficulty.
At the same time, Davis recruited the players for a formation that became known as his " first great quintet ": John Coltrane on tenor saxophone, Red Garland on piano, Paul Chambers on bass, and Philly Joe Jones on drums.
The quintet was disbanded for the first time in 1957, following a series of personal problems that Davis blames on the drug addiction of the other musicians.
Songs included Dave Brubeck's " The Duke ," as well as Léo Delibes's " The Maids of Cadiz ," the first piece of European classical music Davis had recorded.
" So What " and " All Blues " had been played by the sextet at performances prior to the recording sessions, but for the other three compositions, Davis and Evans prepared skeletal harmonic frameworks that the other musicians saw for the first time on the day of recording, to allow a fresher approach to their improvisations.

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