Martha Davis

The promise shown by pianist Martha Davis when she recorded three TOP hits in 1948 didn’t carry over in to the 1950s. Performing within a duo, Martha Davis & Partner, which she distributed to her bass participant and hubby, Calvin Ponder, she continuing to tour through the 1950s. At that time, however, her times being a hitmaking musician had been over. A indigenous of Wichita, KS, Davis was raised in Chicago. Primarily recording for the tiny Urban label, she got a surprise strike, “Little White Lays,” in 1948. The tune, which highlighted the accompaniment of Ponder, guitarist Ralph Williams, and drummer Lee Youthful, reached the very best placement on Billboard’s R&B graphs. Signing using the much bigger Decca label, which reissued “Small White Lays” on its Jewel subsidiary, she continuing to find achievement with her following two recordings. “Don’t Burn off the Candle at Both Ends” reached amount six in the R&B graphs, while “Daddy-O,” documented with Louis Jordan, peaked at amount nine. Failing woefully to record once again until 1951, when she agreed upon with Coral, Davis was struggling to achieve the levels of her early recordings. non-e of the music she documented for Coral became strikes.