{"id":76911,"date":"2020-09-30T08:45:46","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T12:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/?p=76911"},"modified":"2020-09-30T07:56:14","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T11:56:14","slug":"singer-songwriter-mac-davis-dies-at-78","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2020\/09\/singer-songwriter-mac-davis-dies-at-78\/","title":{"rendered":"Singer-songwriter Mac Davis Dies At 78"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o_DMacGC3WQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Singer-songwriter Mac Davis died on September 29th at the age of 78 after suffering a heart attack in Nashville, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2020\/09\/29\/mac-davis-in-ghetto-songwriter-critically-ill\/3564764001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tennessean.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When starting out, the Lubbock, Texas-born Davis wrote several hits for Elvis Presley, including the standards, &#8220;In The Ghetto,&#8221; &#8220;Don&#8217;t Cry Daddy,&#8221; &#8220;Memories,&#8221; and &#8220;A Little Less Conversation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As a solo artist, Davis was a staple of 1970&#8217;s Top 40, TV, and film &#8212; with such major hits as the 1972 three-week chart-topper &#8220;Baby Don&#8217;t Get Hooked On Me,&#8221; the Top Ten &#8220;Stop And Smell The Roses,&#8221; and the Top 20 hits &#8220;One Hell Of A Woman,&#8221; and &#8220;Rock N&#8217; Roll (I Gave You The Best Years Of My Life).&#8221; Davis was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>As an actor, Davis will be best remembered for his NBC variety show The Mac Davis Show, which ran from 1974 to 1976, and his co-starring role in 1979&#8217;s North Dallas Forty.<\/p>\n<p>Not long ago Mac Davis was asked about submitting some of his most enduring songs to &#8220;The King,&#8221; Elvis Presley.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8216;In The Ghetto,&#8217; I had been. . . I wrote that, just for my own satisfaction, and after the (1968 &#8216;comeback&#8217;) special, after &#8216;Memories&#8217; became a hit, he wanted to go down to Memphis and cut some serious stuff, and I gave him everything I had and the first two songs on the tape were &#8216;In The Ghetto,&#8217; and &#8216;Don&#8217;t Cry Daddy.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2Ox1Tore9nw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Singer-songwriter Mac Davis died on September 29th at the age of 78 after suffering a heart attack in Nashville.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":76913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[464],"tags":[4829,4830,4831,4025,4832,4833,4834,4835],"class_list":["post-76911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-a-little-less-conversation","tag-baby-dont-get-hooked-on-me","tag-dant-cry-daddy","tag-elvis","tag-elvis-presley","tag-in-the-ghetto","tag-mac-davis","tag-memories"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 09:07:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/cknx.ca\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2020\/09\/singer-songwriter-mac-davis-dies-at-78\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}