‘All you young wild girls, you make a mess of me.
“It was pretty crowded in there, but they were looking for a rhyme for the hook, and a line just popped out.
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. Both compilations are excellent, eclipsing Razor & Tie's 2000 comp, which didn't have as many hits as either of these, nor were its non-hit selections as interesting as those on the Hux and Raven collections.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. Comparatively, A Little More Action takes a funkier road, selecting songs that have a bit of soulful grit or writerly aspirations, such as "Poor Boy Boogie," "Lucas Was a Redneck," and "Texas in My Rear View Mirror." As for which compilation is better, it's all a matter of taste: if you happen to prefer AM pop, choose the Hux collection, if you like progressive country, go for the Raven.
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Naturally, these are all big hits, either recorded by Mac himself or written for others: these include "In the Ghetto," "Memories," "Whoever Finds This, I Love You," "I Believe in Music," "Watching Scotty Grow," "Something's Burning," "Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me," "One Hell of a Woman," "Stop and Smell the Roses," "Rock N Roll (I Gave You the Best Years of My Life)," and "It's Hard to Be Humble." The 12 songs exclusive to Hard to Be Humble showcase Mac Davis at his poppiest, finding space for the hits "If You Add All the Love in the World," "Burning Thing," and "Music in My Life," and generally choosing to showcase him at his slickest, sweetest crowd-pleasing best. At 23 tracks, it's one song longer than the Hux collection and, of these 23 songs, 10 are shared with Hard to Be Humble. Released nearly simultaneously with Hux's 2013 set Hard to Be Humble: The Best of Mac Davis, Raven's 2013 compilation A Little More Action Please: The Anthology 1970-1985 is very similar in some ways to its companion set and very different in others.
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