Mac Davis’ longtime manager Jim Morey said in a press release that the musician died in Nashville on Tuesday after heart surgery and was surrounded by family and friends. 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,’ …
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — 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. Davis worked as a staff songwriter in Los Angeles for Nancy Sinatra’s publishing company when in 1968 Presley cut the funky “A Little Less …
Mac Davis, the singer, songwriter and actor known for recording a string of easygoing country hits in the 1970s and ’80s and for the tunes he wrote for Elvis Presley, including “In the Ghetto” and “A Little Less Conversation,” died Tuesday in Nashville. In a statement, Kenny Chesney called Davis “a songwriting hero to me,” and Reba McEntire remembered his …
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