Janette Davis Discography

Columbia singles


Albums (only songs performed by Janette are listed)

ROMEO LOVES JULIET (Rainbow #DM-310 - 1947) w. Marshall Young, Larry Clinton Orch.

JANETTE DAVIS SINGS POPULAR SONGS OF THE SOUTH (Royale #VLP-6076) w. Ralph Flanagan Orch.

ARTHUR GODFREY'S TV CALENDAR SHOW (Columbia #GL-521 - 1953)

CHRISTMAS with ARTHUR GODFREY AND ALL THE LITTLE GODFREYS (Columbia #CL-540 - 1953)

A VISIT TO NEW YORK with ARTHUR GODFREY & ALL THE LITTLE GODFREYS (Columbia #CL-653 - 1955)

EP 45' album

JANETTE DAVIS (Columbia #B-1858 - 1954)

Janette's Songs on Commercial CD Compilation Albums

JANETTE DAVIS SHOW & PERRY COMO SUPPER CLUB 2 Radio Shows (Redmond Nostalgia CD - Issued 2004)

from: "The Janette Davis Show" (1947):

  • Theme; I'll Get By
  • On the Sunny Side of the Street
  • I Never Loved Anyone
  • It's Easy to Remember
  • Put the Blame on Mame.

from "The Perry Como Show" (1948):

  • There Ought to Be a Society

THE EDDY DUCHIN SHOW AFRS Radio Airchecks (Redmond Nostalgia CD #1092) 4 Complete Duchin Shows

ARTHUR GODFREY: THE OLD REDHEAD Columbia records (Sony CD #CCM1772 - Issued 2000)

ARTHUR GODFREY & HIS FRIENDS Columbia records (Jasmine Double-CD #JASCD146 - Issued 2007)

GIRLS ALLOWED: Female Vocalists of the 50's (Jasmine Double-CD #JASCD524 - Issued 2010)


Her Radio Commercial

Not sure this qualifies for the Discography page, but what the hell. From the late 1940s and well into the mid-1950s, those of us who are, as they say, "a certain age" couldn't avoid hearing an endlessly repeated Carolina Rice radio commercial. It was sung by an anonymous young lady with a soft Southern drawl. Unbeknownst to listeners, the singer was Janette Davis.

"Nothin' could be finah than a box of Carolinah Rice / So nice
Caroliiiiiiii-na, the extra long grain rice.
Ah come from Carolina so pahdon my drawl.
I'm heah to mention long-grain rice to y'all.
lt makes right fancy eat'n, it's tasty and so nice,
For quawlity and nourishment it's Carolinah Rice.
Theah's three ways to serve rice to make it worthwhile,
Pressure-cooked, Suthern or Oriental style.
Serve it in a dozen ways, take mah advice,
Nothin's e-co-no-mi-cal as Carolinah Rice.
Caroliiiiiiii-nah, the extra long-grain Rice."

Janette called it "my biggest hit record."