Honoring the late MacDavis with a look back at his Hot100 chart-topper 'Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me.'
It was when he began his solo career in 1970, though, that Davis really started to swagger. Debutgenerated his first Hot 100 entry under his own name in 1970, with the No. 53-peaking"Whoever Finds This, I Love You," and his 1971 sophomore effortproduced a future signature song in the oft-covered anthemic title track. Then, in 1972, he achieved true solo stardom with hisalbum, and its title cut lead single -- Davis' first and only Hot 100 chart-topper.
"Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me" reads as immediately off-putting from its very title.
In fact, Davis goes the complete other way with it."Baby" arrives on a gently lapping drum beat and plush bed of electric piano and strings, before Mac begins a vocal nearly as dolorous as Elvis' on"In the Ghetto":"Girl, you're getting that look in your eyes/ And it's starting to worry...
And yet, against all odds, the song never becomes completely unlikeable. Part of that is the singer/songwriter's undeniable ear for melody -- rare was the Mac Davis single you couldn't sing along with by the end of the second chorus -- and part is the immaculate sonic detail of the production, courtesy of Rick Hall. But a lot of it is just Davis himself, the kind of affable performer who ends up showing up in movies and TV shows simply because folks are always happy to see him.
For his own part, Davis was never particularly fond of the song. The idea for it came to him when producer Hall asked him to write"a hook song" for his new album, and he ended up interpreting the direction somewhat literally, and perhaps a little sarcastically. Even with just the title phrase and its melody in place, Hall instantly saw the commercial potential in"Baby," and Davis had the song written and recorded by the end of the next day.
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