He wrote the hook for Bruno Mars’ song Young Girls on an impromptu visit to Mars’s studio.
He largely stopped releasing his own music in the mid-80s, but continued as a songwriter, working with artists including EDM star Avicii and alt-rockers Weezer. The optimistic Stop and Smell the Roses was another US Top 10 hit in 1974, and he also found success with One Hell of a Woman and Rock’n’Roll (I Gave You the Best Years of My Life). It spent three weeks at the top of the US charts. Photograph: GAB Archive/Redfernsĭavis became a performing artist in his own right, signing with Columbia Records in 1970 and scoring a hit two years later with the sly ballad Baby Don’t Get Hooked on Me, about keeping a clingy girlfriend at arm’s length. After being asked by “a bunch of hippy types” to join a seance, Davis declined, telling them “I believe in music” and inspiring the song.ĭavis during his 1970s solo career. Davis said it was written on a guitar owned by Bee Gees’ Maurice Gibb during a party at Gibb’s house. Other Elvis successes included Memories and Don’t Cry Daddy, the latter another US Top 10 hit.ĭavis songs of the period were also recorded by artists including Kenny Rogers, BJ Thomas, and Perry Como, one of many singers who cut versions of his song I Believe in Music – the best known is by soft rock band Gallery. Davis’s ballad In the Ghetto, an unusually socially conscious song for Presley, reached No 3 in the US and No 2 in the UK in 1969.
His biggest successes were songs for Elvis Presley in his brief late-1960s resurgence, following his peak rock’n’roll years in the 50s.Ī Little Less Conversation – written by Davis with Aretha Franklin in mind – was a minor hit in 1968, reaching No 69 in the US, but it became a global smash in 2002 when remixed by Junkie XL, reaching No 1 in the UK and numerous other countries. His work in that capacity for Liberty Records eventually landed him in Los Angeles and in the orbit of Nancy Sinatra, who then hired him to write songs for her and her company.Born and raised in Lubbock, Texas, in 1942, Davis settled in Atlanta, Georgia, as a young man and began working as a songwriter signed to Nancy Sinatra’s Boots Enterprises. It was there, around the age of 20, that Davis began performing in bands and writing songs while working as a "promotions man" for record labels, trying to secure radio play for their releases. At 16, upon graduating from high school, Davis left Lubbock to join his mother, Edith, in Atlanta. In all, he released 19 albums over 25 years, beginning with 1970's Song Painter and ending with 1994's Will Write Songs For Food.ĭavis was born in Texas on Jan. He was an inductee to the Songwriters Hall of Fame, the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame, the Georgia Music Hall of Fame and was a recipient of the BMI Icon Award. He was 78.ĭavis' songwriting work was recorded by dozens of artists, including Nancy Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash, Reba McEntire, Tom Jones, Kenny Rogers, Merle Haggard and more. His death was confirmed by his manager, Jim Morey.
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Mac Davis, a songwriter and performer who began a decades-long ascent in music and entertainment in the early 1960s, died Tuesday in Nashville following heart surgery.
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