Davis was born in 1926, in Joplin, Missouri, and died on 6 October 2015 in Leawood, Kansas, at 89 years of age.

He presented his sauce to several Kansas City area food brokers with the intention of marketing it to the public through retail supermarket distribution.

Flynn's concept was a simple grassroots marketing strategy, targeting local supermarkets with food sample demonstrations.

The barbeque sauce sold more than 3,000 cases (36,000 bottles) the first weekend, and the stores actually ran out of inventory.

In 1986, after nearly ten years of success in the Kansas City area, Davis received an offer to sell the KC Masterpiece brand to the Kingsford charcoal division of The HV Food Products Company (formally known as Hidden Valley Ranch Food Products, Inc.), which operates as a subsidiary of the Clorox Company, with an eye to marketing the sauce nationwide.