Robert Mann’s 10th book, “You Are My Sunshine: Jimmie Davis & the Biography of a Song,” wraps musicology and social and political history into 161 concise pages. Straightforward though ...

The official state song is “ Give Me Louisiana,” written in 1970 by Doralice Fontane, and not only former Gov. Jimmie Davis’ version of “ You Are My Sunshine, ” as many thought.

Davis, who died at the age of 101 in 2000, served as governor from 1944-1948 and from 1960-1964. He's one of Louisiana College's most notable alums having graduated from the private Baptist ...