Two years later, Davis had his own number one hit with "Baby, Don't Get Hooked on Me."ĭavis' fun-loving and genial personality was on full display when he began hosting his own variety program in 1974. He also noted, "It's pretty amazing to me that some fourteen years my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record." That song would be "A Little Less Conversation," performed in the 1968 Elvis movie Live a Little, Love a Little.ĭavis continued to write for Presley, including songs "In the Ghetto" and "Don’t Cry Daddy," and in 1970 signed a deal with Columbia Records. The 1980 country hit "Hooked on Music" opens with Mac Davis singing about the night he knew music was in his soul: "I heard a boy named Elvis Presley / Singin' 'That's Alright Mama' on the radio / And it turned me on / I been hooked on music / Hooked on music from that moment on."ĭavis confirmed those beginning lines to be true in an interview last year.
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