Janette Davis

Dorothy Janette Marguerite Davis (1916–2005) was a 20th-century American pop singer, noted particularly for her work for Arthur Godfrey.
Davis was born November 2, 1916, in Memphis, Tennessee, the eldest of eight children. Her full name was Dorothy Janette Marguerite Davis. She grew up in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. She began singing and playing piano on the radio at age fourteen.
Pursuing her career, Davis sang for radio stations in Quincy, Illinois, then Shreveport, Louisiana, then Cincinnati, after which she... more