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Jimmie Davis Hall of Fame Award. With a perform Jimmie Davis Hall of Fame Award.

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Jimmie Davis Hall of Fame Award. With a perform Jimmie Davis Hall of Fame Award.
<B>Jimmie Davis Hall of Fame Award.</B></I> With a performing career spanning eight decades of the 20th century (you read that right, he died in 2000 at the tender age of 101), Jimmie Davis cranked out countless Country-Blues and traditional Gospel classics (chiefly "You Are My Sunshine" and "Nobody's Darling But Mine") while maintaining a political career that included two terms as governor of Louisiana on a segregationist platform that he later denounced. In fact, his greatest musical successes came during those terms, in the mid-'40s and the early '60s. Now <I>that's</B></I> multi-tasking. Featured here is Davis' well-deserved bronze-and-wood Nashville Songwriters Association Hall of Fame Award, dated October 11, 1971. It measures 9" x 5 1/2" and is in pristine condition.