Mac Davis
Mac Davis ( born January 21, 1942 in Lubbock, Texas, and Scott Davis) is a singer- songwriter who in the genre of country music is mainly active.
Life
Beginning as a composer
In the music business he started in 1961 as regional manager of the record label Vee -Jay Records and moved to Liberty Records in 1965, where he rose to become chief of the associated music publishing "Metric Music Publishing ". His first composition (co-author: Larry Collins) You're Good For Me was taken from the Rhythm & Blues and Soul artist Lou Rawls in July 1968 for the title song of the same name Rawls LP. The next composition (along with Freddy Weller written ) Within My Memory, already in the country sector for Glen Campbell LP A New Place in the Sun ( November 1968 ) placed, was moderately chart not registered. In this phase, Elvis Presley tried after 3 -year-old top 10 abstinence with a new recording studio and producer making a comeback. Looking for song repertoire Elvis first took over from Davis ( Billy Strange written ) A Little Less Conversation, which was used as a B-side of Almost in Love in September 1968 and has been included in the RCA studios in Nashville / Tennessee. A # 69 in the charts was another setback for the Elvis management. Two other compositions were Memories and Nothing Ville (both in turn originated with Billy Strange ), recorded in June 1968. Then Charro followed for the same Elvis film, taken on 15 October 1968 as the B - side of the single Memories without special resonance published.
Breakthrough
Davis then met in Presley's hometown of Memphis at Chips Moman, the studio owner, session guitarist and producer of American Sound Studios, who had received from Elvis management the production order for the next song. In January 1969 came here for the next Elvis LP From Elvis in Memphis 12 songs, including the socially critical In the Ghetto. Before this LP came on the market in June 1969, it was decided to bring out in April 1969 In the Ghetto as a single. The controversial song entered the U.S. pop charts, where he rose to 3rd place (in GB No. 2, in Germany even the only No. 1 ranking for Elvis ). In June 1969, the play about the hopelessness of the youth in the ghetto reached up to her milieu related death status as a million seller. Next Composition for Elvis was then Clean Up Your Own Backyard, published in June 1969, but with a # 35 no further progress. The recorded already on January 15, 1969 Davis composition Do not Cry Daddy was released in November 1969 as Elvis single and reached a sixth rank. Thus Davis compositions had a significant part in the successful comeback of Elvis Presley.
These successes made Davis a sought after song writers. For O.C. Smith wrote Friend, Lover, Woman, Wife (May 1969 U.S. 47) and Daddy's Little Man ( August 1969, US- 34). A short time later placed Kenny Rogers and the First Edition Something 's Burning be on the charts ( February 1970, US- 11, GB-8 ), which thus became the second most successful hit of this formation. Bobby Goldsboro reached an identical position in the U.S. Watching Scotty Grow ( December 1970 ). Previously, it had brought Glen Campbell with Everything a Man Could Ever Need (July 1970) to a 5th place in the country charts.
In 1971 he received at his own 90-minute NBC late night show titled I Believe in Music, the theme song from the group " Gallery" in August 1972, in the U.S. charts (US- 22). In April 1972, Ray Price brought the Davis - song The Lonesome Lonesomest to No. 2 on the country charts. In June 1990, he appeared as co -author of Dolly Parton 's White Limozeen.
Interpreter
In 1970 was Mac Davis of Columbia Records a record deal. With his own composition, Baby, Do not Get Hooked on Me he put his singing ambitions to prove, for this published in the August 1972 song reached the top position of the U.S. pop charts. His producer Rick Hall Davis had asked to complete a text with a repetitive phrase to write ( bracket ' in English "hook " ). When Davis presented this item with still unfinished text and fragmentary score was for the producers realized: " That sounds like a No. 1 hit. Let's us. " As a performer he was still attached to the work until 1981, a dozen less successful songs out, including in December 1974 (written by K. Johnson) the retrospective Rock N 'Roll (I Gave You the Best Years Of My Life) what reminded that Mac Davis was born in the same place as Buddy Holly.
In the country charts, he had more success. While Texas still reached No. 9 on the charts in November 1980 in My Rear View Mirror, managed Hooked on Music ( March 1981) a 2nd place.
Statistics
Broadcast Music Incorporated According to Davis 184 compositions registered. He has received from this organization a total of 16 BMI Song Awards. In 2000, he was inducted into the " Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame" and 2006 in the " Songwriters Hall of Fame". In 2003 he received the " BMI TV Music Award ".