Aside from George Clinton, he was the only original member of the Parliaments not to leave the Parliament-Funkadelic conglomerate in 1977.
He was born in Sumter, South Carolina to Julius and Carrie Bell (Pack) Davis, and worked with Roger Troutman and Zapp in the early to mid-1980s.
His distinctive bass can be heard on "I Can Make You Dance," and "Do Wa Ditty."
He was also briefly in a later period line-up of The Temptations, joining after the death of original bass singer Melvin Franklin,[1] and appearing on the 1995 album For Lovers Only.
And in 1998, along with original Parliament-Funkadelic members Clarence "Fuzzy" Haskins, Calvin Simon, and "Shady Grady" Thomas, he formed the Original P. Davis died in New Brunswick, New Jersey on July 5, 2005, at the age of 65, of respiratory problems.