Biography
Unlike the Davis Sisters, the Davis Twins embodied an entirely separate kind of family act on stage, most visibly because the former ensemble featured twice the number of onstage Davis relatives. During the late 1950s a Charleston, West Virginia, disc jockey known as Sleepy Jeffers proved alert enough to launch the short-lived recording efforts of the brother-and-sister duo Sonny Davis and Honey Davis, who was married to Jeffers. Broadcasting from WTIP, Jeffers featured the Davis Twins providing harmony vocals on the track “Pretending Is a Game,” whose reflective tone later earned spots on no fewer than five rockabilly anthologies. The single first appeared around 1957 on the storied Starday imprint; its B-side, “My Blackbirds Are Bluebirds Now,” has likewise drawn notice. Independently, the Davis Twins had already served as longtime performers on WWVA’s Wheeling Jamboree, a role dating back to the late 1930s.