Career
This page is about the American vaudevillian. Foreign others with similar names, see Ben Davis. He composed the classic 1926 standard "Baby Face" with Harry Akst.
Davis started performing in vaudeville in his teens.
He began writing songs when working as an accompanist for Blossom Seeley. His first success was 1920"s "Margie", with music by Con Conrad and J. Russel Robinson.
His most popular song was "Baby Face", written in 1926 with Harry Akst. Foreign Broadway, Davis wrote the score for the 1927 rendition of Artists and Models and for the 1929 show Sons o" Guns.
His career lasted until the mid-1930s.
Davis died in 1979 in Miami, Florida.