Product Description:
Mac Davis, who penned the Elvis hit "In the Ghetto", was asked by a record exec to write another song with a strong musical "hook." The result--"Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me"--went to #1 (and platinum) and launched Davis on a successful recording, TV and movie career. The
Baby album and its successful follow-up are included here.
Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me/Stop and Smell the Roses: A Golden Classics Edition,Mac Davis,Collectables,Country,Country & Western,Country-Pop,Nashville Sound/Countrypolitan,Pop,Soft Rock
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- Good Old Mac!
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- Classic
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- Great songs by a GREAT entertainer
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Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me/Stop and Smell the Roses: A Golden Classics Edition
Mac Davis
Manufacturer: Collectables
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ASIN: B00000093S
Release Date: 1997-07-01 |
Tracks:
- Dream Me Home
- The Lonesomest Lonesome
- Everybody Loves A Love Song
- Naughty Girl
- Friend, Lover, Woman, Wife
- Half And Half (Song For Sarah)
- Spread Your Love On Me
- Whoever Finds This, I Love You
- Poor Boy Boogie
- Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me
- The Words (Don't Come Easy)
- Stop And Smell The Roses
- Soft, Sweet Fire
- The Sweetest Song
- Two Plus Two
- The Birthday Song
- One Hell Of A Woman
- A Poor Man's Gold
- Lucas Was A Redneck
- Kiss It And Make It Better
- Burnin' Thing
- It' s Hard To Be Humble
- Texas In My Rear View Mirror
- Rock N' Roll (I Gave You The Best Years Of My Life)
Album Description
Mac Davis, who penned the Elvis hit "In the Ghetto", was asked by a record exec to write another song with a strong musical "hook." The result--"Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me"--went to #1 (and platinum) and launched Davis on a successful recording, TV and movie career. The Baby album and its successful follow-up are included here.
Customer Reviews:
Good Old Mac!.......2006-02-22
Reminds me of the good old days when my kids were growing up. Great great great!
STOP AND SMELL THE HOOKS!.......2005-12-24
MAC DAVIS-BABY DON'T GET HOOKED ON ME/STOP AND SMELL THE ROSES: This "two-fer" CD (plus bonus tracks, no less) combines a pair of the Lubbock, Texas songwriter/singer's best known albums, the title tracks of each representing two of his biggest hits. Amounting to a better retrospective than his official "Greatest Hits" (at least, after you separate the wheat from the chaff), the four tacked on cuts alone include the smug novelty singalong IT'S HARD TO BE HUMBLE (a pretty fair summary of Davis' often tongue in cheek composing style), country charter TEXAS IN MY REAR VIEW MIRROR, and the autobiographical ROCK N' ROLL I GAVE YOU ALL THE BEST YEARS OF MY LIFE. All of these fine "Lost 45s" are nearly impossible to find nowadays. Among the twenty other songs here, you get the number one anti-commitment classic BABY DON'T GET HOOKED ON ME, the seductive slices NAUGHTY GIRL and ONE HELL OF A WOMAN, and the gospel-colored STOP AND SMELL THE ROSES. All make for guilty pleasure listening, even if there are sometimes long stretches of audio Nutri Sweet in between. When Davis writes a good'un (Kenny Rogers, Elvis, and Gallery all did fine by his SOMETHIN'S BURNIN', IN THE GHETTO, and I BELIEVE IN MUSIC respectively), everything is right in pop music circles. I suggest you do what I did---burn your own customized anthology from the dozen or so pop picks here, and leave that other album's worth of pablum for the elevators and dentist offices. RATING: FOUR HOOKS
Classic.......2005-09-24
I've been looking for "Stop and Smell the Roses" ever since my cassette tape bit the dust 3 years ago. All the songs I grew up to in a better quality. I've even tried to find MP3 downloads for these songs and couldn't! I'm so relieved I finally got what I've been searching so long for.
How Nice To Be A Regular Member of the Public..........2003-03-15
"Poor boy don't need 'lectronics to make no Rock 'n Roll...Poor boy got Boogie-Woogie born right in his soul..." and the lyrics (from "Poor Boy Boogie") goes to tell us that you'd only need sticks, spoons and friends to make good music. This was in the early 70's...when most of us young folks were listening to heavy electrified UNDERGROUND!...But (believe it or not) Mac Davis could, at that time, divert our attention from Henrix and Grand Funk Railroad to his kind of music....Good deep voice, catchy tunes and the lyrics made us feel that, well, we belonged! With the exemption of "Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me" which is everybody's favourite...nice melody....but the words can be dangerous....just don't sing it to your sweetheart....! Get this CD! These songs will last for many years to come...good to listen to while drivin' too!
Great songs by a GREAT entertainer.......2002-09-22
One of the best performers ever. A note for the person who wondered why "Convoy and Rhinestone Cowboy" are missing from the album. Convoy was done by C.W. McCall, and Rhinestone Cowboy was done by Glen Campbell. They shouldn't be on this one!
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