Mac Davis, whose music career included recording 20 albums, writing the Elvis Presley hit “In The Ghetto” and starring in films like North Dallas Forty with Nick Nolte and on his own TV…
His manager and longtime fried Jim Morey said Davis died after complications from a recent heart surgery.
The Lubbock, Texas-born Davis recorded 20 albums and charted 40 singles and was as prolific a songwriter, with song titles to his credit including “In the Ghetto” and “A Little Less Conversation,” both made famous by Elvis Presley. Other Elvis hits included “Memories” and “Don’t Cry Daddy.” Davis’ songs also included “I Believe in Music,” “Something’s Burning,” “It’s Hard to Be Humble.”
His own singing career took off with another of his own songs, “Baby Don’t Get Hooked on Me,” which rose to No. 1 on the pop charts which earned him a Pop Vocal Performance Grammy nomination in 1973. He had hits on both the Pop and Country charts throughout his five-decade career. Known as “Song Painter” after the name of his first album, he is a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame and received the BMI Icon Award in 1985.
As an actor, Davis starred for three seasons on the NBC variety show The Mac Davis Show, which won an Emmy. He later co-started with Nolte in Ted Kotcheff’s 1979 movie, based on Peter Gent’s book about the Dallas Cowboys; his film credits would also include
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