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

Author Robert Mann was excited to be in Alexandria. That’s because it was on these streets the singing governor, the late Gov. Jimmie Davis, first publicly strummed his guitar and sang to make ...

Mann weaves together the birth of country music, Louisiana political history, World War II and the American civil rights movement in his latest book.

you're probably familiar with the LeBron James "You Are My Sunshine" meme. You may have seen it more since the Los Angeles ...

Jimmie Davis. A singer and recording artist before he entered politics, Davis released his recording of “You Are My Sunshine” in 1940. The song defined his public persona, helping him sing his ...

"You Are My Sunshine” is one of the reasons Davis was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. The song exposed people to country music but also taught other artists such as Crosby that ...