Mac Davis has established himself as an all around entertainer:
songwriter, singer, film and stage actor, T.V. and radio
personality.... performer and legend. He has enjoyed success in almost
every facet of show business, starting in the late sixties all the way
to the present. In the late sixties, Mac’s song writing talent paid
off: he wrote several hits for Elvis Presley, including “In the
Ghetto”, “Memories”, “Don’t Cry Daddy” and “A Little
Less Conversation”, which was re-released in 2002 and became a #1
hit in 26 countries around the world. Nominated three times for Grammy
Awards, he has written hits for Kenny Rogers (“Somethin’s
Burnin”), Bobby Goldsboro (“Watchin’ Scotty Grow”), Gallery
(“I Believe in Music”), O.C. Smith, Freddie Hart, Ray Price, Low
Rawls, Dolly Parton, Rascal Flatts, and many others. Hit songs that he
recorded himself include, “Baby Don’t Get Hooked on Me”, “Stop
and Smell the Roses”, “One Hell of a Woman”, “Hooked on
Music”, “My Bestest Friend”, “It’s Hard to be Humble”, and
“Texas in My Rearview Mirror”. His successful television series,
“The Mac Davis Show” on NBC, and many T.V. Specials over the years
enabled him to be selected as the Academy of Country Music’s
“Entertainer of the Year”, and The People’s Choice Awards’
very first “Favorite Male Singer”. As for movies, Mac costarred
with Nick Nolte in one of the greatest football movies of all time,
“North Dallas Forty”, and went on to starring roles in “The
Sting II”, “Cheaper to Keep Her”, and the family film
“Possums”, which had audiences cheering at the Sundance Film
Festival. Over the last few years, Mac has received notable awards and
accolades such as a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, being inducted
into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame, the Texas Country Music Hall of
Fame, Nashville’s Songwriters Hall of Fame, the Texas Heritage
Songwriters’ Association, the National Songwriter’s Hall of Fame
in New York and the Alabama Music Hall Of Fame’s first ever Jerry
Wexler Award. Sponsored by Jackson National Life Presented by Franklin
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