Is “Songography” a word? If it isn’t, it is now. This is a close-to-complete listing of the songs Janette Davis sang on the daily CBS Arthur Godfrey Time morning shows, in date order, from her first five years on the show. The list includes repeat performances, as well as those with occasional duet partners (most frequently Godfrey and the Mariners quartet). As you’ll see, she sang a mélange of current pop songs, older standards, obscurities, novelty ditties, holiday songs, soft ballads and slam-bang rhythmic arrangements (and everything in between).
All songs are accompanied by Godfrey’s house band, lead by Archie Bleyer. Such was the musicianship and trust between Janette and Archie’s band that they could often whale into an unplanned and/or unrehearsed arrangement with complete confidence, sounding as good as any previously rehearsed number.
Here’s the list:
| 7/8/46 | I Got the Sun in the Morning / Love Is the Same Old Thing |
| 7/9/46 | What Can I Say Dear After I Say I’m Sorry? |
| 9/2/46 | Come Rain or Come Shine |
| 9/6/46 | The Man I Love / On the Sunny Side of the Street |
| 9/18/46 | Mad About Him Blues |
| 10/2/46 | You Can Depend on Me |
| 10/10/46 | Deed I Do |
| 10/16/46 | My Love for You |
| 10/17/46 | Come to Baby Do |
| 10/18/46 | Guilty |
| 10/23/46 | At Sundown |
| 10/24/46 | Them Them Them Them / As You Desire Me |
| 10/31/46 | Ain't Misbehavin' / Pretending |
| 11/5/46 | Exactly Like You |
| 11/6/46 | You Keep Coming Back Like a Song / The Man I Love w. The Mariners |
| 11/7/46 | Ol' Buttermilk Sky / My Heart Stood Still w. The Mariners |
| 11/8/46 | And Then It's Heaven / Little White Lies |
| 11/13/46 | The One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else |
| 12/9/46 | Five Minutes More / Penthouse Serenade |
| 12/18/46 | You Keep Coming Back Like a Song |
| 1/3/47 | The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea |
| 1/21/47 | This Time It's Love |
| 3/26/47 | Heartaches w. Arthur Godfrey / It's Me, Godfrey w. Godfrey & the Mariners |
| 5/19/47 | I Never Knew I Could Love Anybody |
| 7/1/47 | Little White Lies |
| 7/2/47 | Chi-Baba, Chi-Baba w. the Mariners / Put the Blame on Mame |
| 7/3/47 | Mean to Me |
| 7/4/47 | A Little Bit Independent |
| 7/7/47 | Heartaches |
| 7/8/47 | You Can't See the Sun When You're Crying |
| 7/9/47 | The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea |
| 7/10/47 | The Porter's Love Song w. Godfrey / Body and Soul |
| 7/11/47 | A Sunday Kind of Love / Across The Alley from the Alamo |
| 7/14/47 | I Never Knew I Could Love Anybody |
| 7/15/47 | Love Is Just Around the Corner / It's Almost Like Being in Love |
| 7/16/47 | I May Be Wrong |
| 7/17/47 | I Believe, I Believe / That's My Desire |
| 7/18/47 | Tallahassee [2x] / The Porter's Love Song w. Godfrey |
| 7/21/47 | Nice Work If You Can Get It / Ask Anyone Who Knows |
| 7/22/47 | I Wonder, I Wonder / I Don't Know Why |
| 9/2/47 | The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea / Don't Tell Me |
| 9/3/47 | Tallahassee |
| 9/4/47 | I Never Knew What Love Could Do / I Never Knew I Could Love Anybody / Ain'tcha Ever Coming Back? |
| 9/5/47 | Feudin', Fussin', & Fightin' / For Once in Your Life |
| 9/8/47 | It Had to Be You |
| 9/9/47 | Mad About Him Blues |
| 9/10/47 | The One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else / You Do |
| 9/11/47 | Blue Skies |
| 9/12/47 | Can You Look Me in the Eyes? [2x] |
| 9/15/47 | I May Be Wrong / Almost Like Being in Love |
| 9/16/47 | Old Devil Moon |
| 9/17/47 | I Only Have Eyes for You |
| 9/18/47 | On the Sunny Side of the Street / I Wish I Didn't Love You So |
| 9/19/47 | A Little Bit Longer |
| 9/22/47 | Nice Work If You Can Get It / Don't Tell Me |
| 9/23/47 | Feudin', Fussin, & Fightin' |
| 9/24/47 | Body and Soul / Stanley Steamer w. The Mariners |
| 9/25/47 | Exactly Like You / I'm Yours |
| 9/25/47 | Love Is Just Around the Corner |
| 9/29/47 | There Ought To Be a Society w. Sy Shaffer / Ain'tcha Ever Coming Back? |
| 9/30/47 | Easy to Remember / Stanley Steamer w. The Mariners / Paper Moon |
| 10/1/47 | I Get Along Without You Very Well / It Had to Be You |
| 10/2/47 | Ask Anyone Who Knows / The Porter's Love Song w.Godfrey / Gonna Sit Right Down & Write Myself a Letter |
| 10/3/47 | Nobody's Baby / It's Almost Like Being in Love |
| 10/6/47 | Can You Look Me in the Eyes? |
| 10/7/47 | You Do / |
| 10/8/47 | Come Rain or Come Shine / There Ought to Be a Society w. Sy Shaffer |
| 10/9/47 | Ain't Misbehavin' |
| 10/10/47 | Somebody Loves Me |
| 10/13/47 | A Little Bit Longer |
| 10/14/47 | Kokomo, Indiana / Stanley Steamer w.The Mariners |
| 10/15/47 | You Came to Me from Out of Nowhere |
| 10/15/47 | Don't You Love Me Anymore? |
| 10/16/47 | I Wish I Didn't Love You So |
| 10/17/47 | Ain'tcha Ever Coming Back? |
| 10/20/47 | How Come You Do Me Like You Do? / I'm In the Mood for Love |
| 10/21/47 | Deed I Do / You Do |
| 10/22/47 | I May Be Wrong |
| 10/23/47 | Gypsy in My Soul / It's Almost Like Being in Love |
| 10/27/47 | Sing Me a Song of the Islands |
| 10/28/47 | There Ought to Be a Society w. Sy Shaffer |
| 10/29/47 | They're Mine, They're Mine, They're Mine |
| 10/30/47 | So Far |
| 10/31/47 | We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye |
| 11/3/47 | I Never Knew I Could Love Anybody |
| 11/4/47 | This Can't Be Love |
| 11/5/47 | Kokomo, Indiana / Small Hotel |
| 11/6/47 | Stanley Steamer w. The Mariners / Love Is Just Around the Corner |
| 11/7/47 | Sunday |
| 11/10/47 | On the Sunny Side of the Street / Don't You Love Me Anymore? |
| 11/11/47 | Smiles w. The Mariners |
| 11/13/47 | Side By Side / Chesterfield cigarettes parody |
| 11/14/47 | More Than You Know / Feudin', Fussin' & Fightin' |
| 11/17/47 | Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart |
| 11/18/47 | There Ought to Be a Society w. Sy Shaffer |
| 11/19/47 | They're Mine, They're Mine, They're Mine |
| 11/20/47 | Civilization |
| 11/21/47 | Gypsy in My Soul / A Ghost of a Chance |
| 11/24/47 | So Far / Kokomo, Indiana. |
| 11/25/47 | Paper Moon / True |
| 11/26/47 | Nobody's Baby |
| 11/27/47 | Smiles / Easy to Love |
| 11/28/47 | I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter / In My Solitude |
| 12/1/47 | Put The Blame on Mame / It's Almost Like Being In Love |
| 12/2/47 | Where or When / The One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else |
| 12/3/47 | You Do |
| 12/4/47 | That's All I Want to Know / Someone to Watch Over Me |
| 12/5/47 | Civilization / It's Easy to Remember |
| 12/8/47 | I Wish I Didn't Love You So |
| 12/9/47 | I May Be Wrong / White Christmas |
| 12/10/47 | Those Little White Lies / The One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else |
| 12/15/47 | That's All I Want to Know / Silent Night |
| 12/16/47 | Side By Side / Chesterfield Parody |
| 12/17/47 | Don't Call It Love |
| 12/19/47 | There Ought to Be a Society w. Sy Shaffer / Don't You Love Me Anymore? |
| 12/22/47 | It Had to Be You / O Little Town Of Bethlehem |
| 12/18/47 | Mean to Me / True |
| 12/24/47 | The Christmas Song |
| 12/29/47 | I Got a Feelin' You're Foolin' |
| 12/30/47 | There Ought to Be a Society w. Sy Shaffer |
| 12/31/47 | They Can't Make a Lady Out of Me |
| 10/8/48 | I’m Sorry But I’m Glad / She Told Him Emphatically No |
| 2/28/49 | My Darling, My Darling w. Godfrey / Why Can't You Behave? w. Jim Lewis of The Mariners |
| 1949 | I Didn't Know the Gun Was Loaded w. the Mariners |
| 5/14/50 | I Wanna Go Home with You w. Bill Lawrence |
| 7/31/50 | Cross Your Heart / Bewitched |
| 8/10/50 | Opening Chesterfield Jingle / The Gentleman Obviously Doesn't Believe |
| Unknown date | Wang Wang Blues |
Janette also performed the following undated songs between 1953 and 1955, some from the morning Arthur Godfrey Time shows and some from the Wednesday night Arthur Godfrey and His Friends TV variety shows. A few featured Janette at the piano, or even whistling. This is a very incomplete alphabetical list.