RIP Mac Davis

[kroxquo]

'70's singers and Muppet Show guests must be feeling nervous about the comes in threes right now.

https://www.billboard.com/articles/colu ... davis-dead

[SpacemanSpiff]

There's a story told about his hit "Baby, Don't Get Hooked On Me" down at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, where he wrote and recorded the song.

Producer Rick Hall, who was fighting a deadline, told Mac to go upstairs late one day and write a hit song, "and make sure it has a hook to it!"

So Mac, being a bit of a smartass, came up with the chorus in about a half an hour, and came down and preformed it for Rick.

Rick said "That sounds great. Write the rest of the song and we'll record it first thing in the morning."

Mac reluctantly pulled an all-nighter to get the rest of the song together and the rest, as they say, is history.

[Buffacuse]

No one is talking much about his acting, which is somewhat understandable given some of the roles he had--(in)famously, filling in for Robert Redford in Sting II--which makes everyone's list of worst sequels ever.

But, he also played the beaten down quarterback Seth Maxwell in North Dallas Forty, based on the novel which was a thinly-veiled riff on the Dallas Cowboys by former Cowboys tight end Peter Gent. Davis played the character very well, and deserved more serious acting roles than he got.

[tlynn78]

He was a favorite

[SportsFan68]

Mac's variety show was a big hit with my parents, and I remember this song so clearly. It was so poignant, so well done.

I can still remember when I bought my first guitar
Remember just how good the feeling was, put it proudly in my car
And my family listened fifty times to my two song repertoire
And I told my mum her only son was gonna be a star

Bought all the Beatle records, sounded just like Paul
Bought all the old Chuck Berry's, 78s and all
And I sat by my record player, playin' every note they played
And I watched them all on TV, makin every move they made

Rock and roll, I gave you all the best years of my life
All the dreamy sunny Sundays, all the moon-lit summer nights
I was so busy in the back room writin' love songs to you
While you were changin' your direction and you never even knew
That I was always, just one step behind you

' Seemed like the year I was really goin' somewhere
We were living in San Francisco, with flowers in our hair
Singing songs of kindness so the world would understand
But the guys and me were something more than just another band

And then '69 in LA, came around so soon
We were really making headway and writing lots of tunes
And we must have played the wildest stuff we had ever played
The way the crowds cried out for us, we thought we had it made

Rock and roll, I gave you all the best years of my life
All the crazy lazy young days, all the magic moon-lit nights
I was so busy on the road singin' love songs to you
While you were changin' your direction, and you never even knew
That I was always, just one step behind you

71' In Soho, when I saw Suzanne
I was trying to go it solo, with someone else's band
And she came up to me later and I tookeher by the hand
And I told her all my troubles and she seemed to understand

And she followed me through London, through a hundred hotel rooms
Through a hundred record companies who didn't like my tunes
And she followed me when, finally, I sold my old guitar
And she tried to help me understand, I'd never be a star

Rock and roll, I gave you all the best years of my life
All the dreamy sunny Sundays, all the moon-lit summer nights
And though I never knew the magic of makin' it with you
Thank the Lord for giving me the little bit I knew
And I will always be one step behind you

Rock and roll, I gave you all the best years of my life
Singing out my love songs in the brightly flashing lights
And though I never knew the magic of makin' it with you
Thank the Lord for giving me the little bit I knew

Rock and roll, I gave you all the best years of my life
All the dreamy sunny Sundays, all the moon-lit summer nights
I was so busy in the back room makin' love songs to you
While you were changin' your direction, and you never even knew
That I was always, just one step behind you

[Estonut]

Mac's variety show was a big hit with my parents, and I remember this song so clearly. It was so poignant, so well done.

I can still remember when I bought my first guitar
Remember just how good the feeling was, put it proudly in my car
And my family listened fifty times to my two song repertoire
And I told my mum her only son was gonna be a star

Bought all the Beatle records, sounded just like Paul
Bought all the old Chuck Berry's, 78s and all
And I sat by my record player, playin' every note they played
And I watched them all on TV, makin every move they made

Rock and roll, I gave you all the best years of my life
All the dreamy sunny Sundays, all the moon-lit summer nights
I was so busy in the back room writin' love songs to you
While you were changin' your direction and you never even knew
That I was always, just one step behind you

' Seemed like the year I was really goin' somewhere
We were living in San Francisco, with flowers in our hair
Singing songs of kindness so the world would understand
But the guys and me were something more than just another band

And then '69 in LA, came around so soon
We were really making headway and writing lots of tunes
And we must have played the wildest stuff we had ever played
The way the crowds cried out for us, we thought we had it made

Rock and roll, I gave you all the best years of my life
All the crazy lazy young days, all the magic moon-lit nights
I was so busy on the road singin' love songs to you
While you were changin' your direction, and you never even knew
That I was always, just one step behind you

71' In Soho, when I saw Suzanne
I was trying to go it solo, with someone else's band
And she came up to me later and I tookeher by the hand
And I told her all my troubles and she seemed to understand

And she followed me through London, through a hundred hotel rooms
Through a hundred record companies who didn't like my tunes
And she followed me when, finally, I sold my old guitar
And she tried to help me understand, I'd never be a star

Rock and roll, I gave you all the best years of my life
All the dreamy sunny Sundays, all the moon-lit summer nights
And though I never knew the magic of makin' it with you
Thank the Lord for giving me the little bit I knew
And I will always be one step behind you

Rock and roll, I gave you all the best years of my life
Singing out my love songs in the brightly flashing lights
And though I never knew the magic of makin' it with you
Thank the Lord for giving me the little bit I knew

Rock and roll, I gave you all the best years of my life
All the dreamy sunny Sundays, all the moon-lit summer nights
I was so busy in the back room makin' love songs to you
While you were changin' your direction, and you never even knew
That I was always, just one step behind you

Great song, but this was a cover.

It was written by an Australian dude named Kevin Johnson.