His longtime manager Jim Morey said in a press release that Davis died in Nashville on Tuesday after heart surgery and was surrounded by family and friends.ĭavis had a long and varied career in music for decades as a writer, singer, actor and TV host and was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2006. I will miss laughing about our misadventures on the road and his insightful sense of humor.” Straddling country and popĪs a performer, Davis placed 30 singles on the US country chart between 19, but his signature song as an artist was the 1972 pop No.1 “Baby Don’t Get Hooked On Me.” In 1974, he returned to the pop top ten with “Stop and Smell the Roses” the biggest of his country hits was 1981’s No.2 success “Hooked On Music.Country star Mac Davis, who launched his career crafting the Elvis hits A Little Less Conversation and In the Ghetto, and whose own hits include Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me, has died. He was a music legend, but his most important work was that as a loving husband, father, grandfather and friend.

His songs were also covered by Kenny Rogers, Dolly Parton, Lou Rawls, Ray Price, Rascal Flatts and countless others.ĭavis’ longtime manager Jim Morey wrote: “Mac Davis has been my client for over 40 years, and, more importantly, my best friend. He’s thought to have suffered complications arising from heart surgery. Distinguished singer and songwriter Mac Davis, who wrote some of Elvis Presley’s best-loved classics of the late 1960s such as “In The Ghetto” and “A Little Less Conversation” and had his own highly successful career as an artist, has died at 78.

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