Robert Mann’s 10th book, “You Are My Sunshine: Jimmie Davis & the Biography of a Song ... A guitar, banjo and ukulele player himself, Mann enjoyed his first foray into musicology.

Jimmie Davis, known as the “singing governor,” is credited with making the song “You Are My Sunshine” a worldwide hit in 1939. Davis was from Shreveport, and the song’s fame helped him ...

“Tennessee Waltz” and “You Are My Sunshine,” have packed up the truck and headed towards the cosmic hoedown. But Pee Wee King and Gov. Jimmie Davis represented something more special than ...

As reported by the New York Times, they led the children in a round of “You Are My Sunshine,” which might ... but sold the rights to Jimmie Davis, a Louisiana college-professor-turned-criminal ...

But Jimmie Davis, Louisiana’s ... one of the five most popular songs ever recorded, “You Are My Sunshine” was first put on a disc by Davis in 1931, but he was so unhappy with the studio ...

Robert Mann’s 10th book, “You Are My Sunshine: Jimmie Davis & the Biography of a Song,” wraps musicology and social and political history into 161 concise pages.