Dorothy Janette Marguerite Davis (November 2, 1916 – April 25, 2005) was a 20th-century American pop singer, noted particularly for her work for Arthur Godfrey.

Dorothy Janette Marguerite Davis was born on November 2, 1916, in Memphis, Tennessee, the eldest of eight children, and grew up in Pine Bluff, Arkansas.

[1] Pursuing her career, Davis sang for radio stations in Quincy, Illinois, then Shreveport, Louisiana, then Cincinnati, after which she was a regular on NBC's Red Skelton show in 1939 and 1940.

She appeared on programs and recorded the hillbilly song "I Didn't Know the Gun Was Loaded" which became her biggest hit.

[1] Davis sang the Carolina Rice jingle, which ran nationally from the late 1940s well into the mid 1950s; she called it "my biggest hit record".