Authentic, Vintage Black and White Promotional Photograph of Decca Recording Artist Evelyn Knight, circa 1940s. Not marked, but came with an identical sized and formatted group of Columbia Broadcasting System publicity photos. Measures approximately 7 x 9 including white border. Condition: This is an original photograph, not a copy or reproduction. It is in excellent condition. Comments: Evelyn Knight (born Evelyn Davis), December 31, 1917, Reedville, Virginia - September 28, 2007, San Jose, California, was an American singer of the 1940s and 1950s. Damon Runyon, in one of his newspaper columns, described Knight as "a lissome blonde lassie with a gentle little voice and a face mother would not mind having brought home to her. During a seven-year span in the late 1940s and 1950, Knight had two No. 1 hit records and 13 that made the Top 40. Her debut recording was "Dance with a Dolly (With a Hole in Her Stocking)" for Decca Records in 1945. It became a Top 10 hit. In 1948, she recorded the million-seller "A Little Bird Told Me" with The Stardusters, which was #1 for seven weeks and stayed on the charts for five months. Later that year she recorded "Powder Your Face with Sunshine"; which also reached #1 and remained on the charts well into the following year. Knight was among the pioneers of early television with several appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show, The Colgate Comedy Hour and a 1951 television appearance with Abbott & Costello.