Evelyn Knight (born Evelyn Davis, December 31, 1917 – September 28, 2007) 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." == Early years == Knight's father was "head of a geodetic survey for the government". She sang soprano in the young people's choir in a church in... [more on Wikipedia]