RARE OLDIES SOUNDIES WITH THE FABULOUS PIANIST MARTHA DAVIS !!! Martha Davis (December 14, 1917 - April 6, 1960) was an African American singer and pianist whose musical comedy act, “Martha Davis & Spouse“, was popular in the late 1940s and 1950s. Davis was born in Wichita, Kansas, and raised in Chicago, Illinois. By the mid 1930s she had met and been influenced by Fats Waller, and performed regularly as a singer and pianist in Chicago clubs. In 1939 she met, and later married, bass player Calvin Ponder (October 17, 1917 - December 26, 1970), who went on to play in Earl Hines’ band. In 1948, Davis and Ponder moved to California, and Davis developed her recording career on Jewel Records in Hollywood with a trio including Ponder, Ralph Williams (guitar) and Lee Young (drums). Their cover of Dick Haymes’ pop hit “Little White Lies“ reached # 11 on the Billboard R&B chart, followed by a duet with Louis Jordan, “Daddy-O“, from the movie A Song Is Born, whic
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