After relocating to Los Angeles for Liberty, he became a staff writer for Nancy Sinatra's publishing company. But he didn't abandon his artistic dreams. After his first attempts as a songwriter and an artist in the early '60s failed, he worked as a promotion executive for Vee Jay and Liberty labels. 21, 1942 in Lubbock, Texas, Davis was a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.
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1 in 1972, as well as “Stop and Smell the Roses” and “It's Hard To Be Humble." His success, and general affability and charisma, led to his own NBC variety series in 1974, the same year the Academy of Country Music named him entertainer of the year.īorn Morris Mac Davis on Jan. But the Grammy nominee saved some of his best work for himself, scoring hits with the Grammy-nominated “Baby Don’t Get Hooked on Me,” which he took to No. In addition to Presley, among the artists who recorded Davis’ compositions were Kenny Rogers, Dolly Parton, Glen Campbell, Tom Jones and Johnny Cash. I will miss laughing about our misadventures on the road and his insightful sense of humor. “He was a music legend, but his most important work was that as a loving husband, father, grandfather and friend. “Mac Davis has been my client for over 40 years, and, more importantly, my best friend,” Davis’ longtime manager Jim Morey said, in announcing his death. Mac Davis, renowned for writing such hits as “In the Ghetto” and “A Little Less Conversation” for Elvis Presley, as well as commanding his own five-decade career that spanned the stage and big and small screen, died Tuesday night (Sept.
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