A song loved by generations throughout the world, “You Are My Sunshine” has special resonance in Louisiana. Statewide affection for the love song-lament largely goes to the late Louisiana Gov. Jimmie ...

“You Are My Sunshine: Jimmie Davis and the Biography of a Song,” by Robert Mann, Louisiana State University Press, 216 pages “You Are My Sunshine" is one of the most popular songs in the world. It has ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – A Louisiana ...

The Monday column item about Gov. Jimmie Davis buying the rights to "You Are My Sunshine" brought this memory from Delores Benedetto, of Baton Rouge: "The 'rest of the story' is that it was not Gov.

Robert Mann, author of "You Are My Sunshine," recently spoke at the Rotary Club of Alexandria about the iconic song's history. Ray Charles's rendition of "You Are My Sunshine" helped disassociate it ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – A Louisiana historian is reevaluating the song that projected a Shreveport musician into the governorship. Jimmie Davis, known as the “singing governor,” is credited with ...