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...victor was tall, twangy, easygoing James H. ("Jimmie") Davis, 43, a fancy-dressing hillbilly tenor, and composer of such eminent sockeroos as You Are My Sunshine, Nobody's Darlin' but Mine, and It Makes No Difference Now. The losers were egg-bald 67-year-old Lewis L. Morgan, longtime public chairwarmer in the state's pre-reform days, and other "old regulars" of New Orleans Mayor Robert S. Maestri's machine. Tenor Davis, supported by Governor Sam Houston (''Sweet-Smellin' Sam") Jones, gave the Longsters even a worse walloping than Jones had given...
...historic It Makes No Difference Now. A hard-boiled Louisiana politician, crack shot and ex-college professor, he last week declared himself a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor of his home state. Local politicos conceded that the recent author of such twangy hits as Nobody's Darlin' But Mine and You Are My Sunshine (the rage of England) had a good chance of winning the election as well as the nomination...
...that time." So is the lyric: Never knew such wonderful days, Glorious days, it seems. All because her wonderful ways Make life sweeter than dreams. Chorus: 'Way down in Dixie, In sunny Dixie, Some one's waitin'. Soon I'll be datin' My darlin' Dixie girl...
...down folk songs. Some are fiddly old dances, like Tennessee Waggoner, Rabbit in the Pea Patch, Cross-Eyed Butcher, Give the Fiddler a Dram, Chittlin' Cookin' Time in Cheatham County. Others, plaintive and plunky like Maple on the Hill, Brown's Ferry Blues, Nobody's Darlin' but Mine, have gone on to wide juke-box favor. One recent find was a fine old Fundamentalist allegory called The Great Speckled Bird, probably inspired by Jeremiah...
...find one black and blue on me." Clad only in a pink "tightie." Cinemactress Lupe Velez pirouetted before a woman reporter in her dressing room in a Brooklyn theatre to scotch a rumor that Husband Johnny ("Tarzan") Weissmuller beat her. Miss Velez: "I sue you, darlin', if you say he ponch...