I said ‘You’re not gonna play it, I’m over 40 and that’s not happening in country radio.’ “Last year about this time I met this guy at the gold course from KZLA radio, and he asked if I had something (new album or single) coming out. Probably the only place you can hear new Mac Davis tunes is on his weekly radio show over KZLA, a show which allows him to play not only his music but other music that he enjoys.
The shame of it is that while he’s writing, we’re not hearing any of his new stuff on CD or on other people’s albums. Today he’s a better man for his struggles, having gotten a handle on the alcoholism and celebrating life with his new wife and two sons. He went through the lows of losing his wife and battling alcoholism.
He soon had signed a recording deal himself and was releasing songs like “I Believe In Music,” “Memories,” “One Hell of a Woman,” “Texas in my Rear View Mirror,” “Stop and Smell the Roses,” “It’s Hard to be Humble” and “Baby Don’t Get Hooked On Me.”ĭavis went through the highs or seeing his music climb the charts and touch people’s hearts. Obviously we were not the only people who latched on to the talent of Mac Davis. My friends and I liked him so much that we went that next weekend to Dallas to see him again. And he did that thing where we yelled lines at him and he made up songs. His songs touched our hearts and his humor was right on target for a mid-70s college crowd. One concert convinced me that he was an amazingly talented individual. Presley also recorded “In the Ghetto” and “Don’t Cry, Daddy.” He wrote “Something’s Burning,” a hit for Kenny Rogers and The First Edition. Davis wrote “Memories” and “Nothingsville” for Elvis Presley’s 1968 television special. Smith (“Friend, Lover, Woman, Wife” and “Daddy’s Little Man”). His claim to fame at the time was the Bobby Goldsboro single, “Watching Scotty Grow,” but he had already written songs for Lou Rawls (“You’re Good For Me”) and O.C. By the time the night of the concert arrived, I had to go just to see who I had been writing about for the past month! They bugged the college newspaper every day, asking us to run another story about this singer named Mac Davis. He was scheduled for a concert at the school, and the organizers of the event were worried that they were not gonna get a crowd. The first time I ever heard of Mac Davis was when I was going to college at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. This article originally appeared in the September/October 2000 issue.
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